the Ayes have it
Golden Arches
5 Ms: What Matters MOLST
Lithium
100
Too much of this supplement used to treat t(15:17) translocation-induced cancer can cause idiopathic intracranial hypertension
Vitamin A.
100
Naegleria fowleri travels retrograde along the path created by this bundle of unmyelinated neurons.
Olfactory nerve
100
Medicine: After years of incorrect diagnoses, an 80 y/o patient suffering from sequelae due to life-long diabetes has now been correctly been diagnosed with depression. Reduce polypharmacy and treat her with this one class of drugs
SNRI - for neuropathic pain and depression
100
Lithium is schedule D for pregnancy because of fetal enlargement of this chamber
Right Atrium (Ebstein Anomaly)
200
Local anesthestics with 2 I's in their names are broken down via this pathway
Cyp450
200
NSAIDS are contraindicated with Lithium just like they're contraindicated in the third trimester of pregnancy because of premature obliteration of a vessel made from this arch.
6th arch
(Ductus arteriosus / Ligamentum Arteriosum)
200
Multicomplexity: A hemodynamically unstable patient needs to undergo electroconvulsive therapy, so this medication will be used for anesthetic induction.
Know this.
Etomidate.
200
Lithium can interfere with aquaporins traveling to the apical membrane of this cell type.
Principal cells of renal collecting duct (and part of late DCT).
Bonus: would this cause hyper/hypo/euvolemic hyper/hypo/normonatremia?
300
Seasonal Affective Disorder can be treated with bright light therapy, the signal from this light will pass through this final nucleus/ganglion prior to synapsing on the pineal gland.
Superior Cervical Ganglion
300
A 5-year-old patient with a positive Chvostek Sign, P. Jirovicii pneumonia, and a heart murmur likely has a failure of fusion of these three parts of the intermaxillary segment of the frontonasal prominence. Name one
1 - Philtrum of lip
2 - Premaxillary part of maxilla (or incisive teeth)
3 - Primary palate
Hypocalcemia, missing thymus, and conico-truncal abnormality points to a 22q11 deletion (DiGeorge)
300
What Matters Most: Physician suicide rates are approximately double the rate of the general population so medical students should know that they can always reach out to this resource.
Ephraim
300
Daily Double
Daily Double
400
Retina form from this primary vesicle.
Forebrain/Prosencephalon
400
The superior cervical nucleus sends efferent motor neurons to three locations: staepedius, tensor tympani, and this cell type.
Outer hair cells.
400
Mobility: the first CNS side effect of lithium treatment
Tremor
400
Propranolol can be given to help alleviate this side effect of Lithium.
Tremor
500
Your depressed patient is crying. The tears drain into the nasal cavity through this meatus.
Inferior meatus.
500
Carcinoma of this pharyngeal pouch derivative is associated with Scanning Dysarthria, Intention Tremor, INO, Incontinence.
Thymus is a derivative third pharyngeal pouch.
(MS and thymoma)
500
Mentation: A patient with AMS has a lumbar puncture performed and the results show a bacterial meningitis with predominantly lymphocytes and low glucose with this most probable pathogen.
TB
(could also be fungal, but the question says bacterial).
500
Prior to initiating Lithium therapy, be sure to check the function of this gland that moves when you swallow.
Thyroid