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A patient has a resting tremor, rigidity, and bradykinesia. Degredation of this structure is responsible/
What is the substantia nigra pars compacta?
A patient taking an SSRI develops agitation, sweating, hyperreflexia, and clonus. This is the diagnosis.
What is serotonin syndrome?
A patient has hallucinations and delusions but also has prominent social withdrawal, flat affect, and decreased motivation. What category of symptoms is responsible for these latter findings?
What are negative symptoms?
A patient has intention tremor, dysmetria, and difficulty with rapid alternating movements. This brain region is affected.
What is the cerebellum?
A patient develops acute dystonia after receiving an antipsychotic. This medication can rapidly treat the reaction.
What is benztropine?
A patient taking haloperidol develops rigidity, fever, altered mental status, and elevated CK. This is the diagnosis.
What is neuroleptic malignant syndrome?
A patient with schizophrenia develops repetitive involuntary movements of the tongue and face after years of antipsychotic treatment. What is the diagnosis?
What is tardive dyskinesia?
A patient presents with vertigo, ipsilateral facial pain, contralateral body pain loss, dysphagia, hoarseness, and ipsilateral Horner syndrome. What vascular territory is most likely involved?
What is the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA)?
A patient with Parkinson disease develops hallucinations after starting a medication that increases dopaminergic activity. This medication class is most likely responsible.
What are dopamine agonists?
A patient has visual hallucinations, fluctuating cognition, parkinsonism, and REM sleep behavior disorder. Which neurodegenerative disorder is most likely?
A patient loses pain and temperature sensation on the right side of the body following a left-sided spinal cord lesion. This tract was damaged.
What is the left spinothalamic tract?
A patient has ipsilateral facial weakness and contralateral body weakness from a lesion involving the corticospinal tract and facial nerve nucleus.
What is the pons?