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Demyelination causes clinical symptoms because of?

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Conduction block

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Guillain-Barre syndrome

  • describe presentation
  • diagnosis
  • treatment
  • can cause death due to to
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DEMYELINATING PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY

  1. Presentation
    - ascending paralysis
    - loss of reflexes
  2. CSF Findings
    - elevated protein
  3. Treatment
    - IVIG
    - mechanical ventilation if required
  4. Death due to respiratory failure
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Multiple sclerosis epidemiology

  • age group
  • gender
  • hereditary?
  • latitude
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  1. 95% in ages 15-50
    - 2nd most common cause of neurological deficit in the age group
  2. 2/1 = female/male
  3. Yes there’s a hereditary component
  4. Higher risk if spend adolescence in temperate zone
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MS lesions tend to cluster in which areas? significance?

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Where white matter is in direct contact w/ CSF

Explains the vision loss, walking issues (cerebellum) and bladder dysdx

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Why are psychiatric and behavioral changes associated w/ MS?

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B/c it hits the frontal lobe

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Compare old vs new MS lesions on MR

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New/active lesions - contrast enhancement

Old lesions - increased signal on T2 w/out enhancement

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Explain internuclear ophthalmoplegia

Bilateral INO pathognomonic for?

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Damage to the MLF
-nystagmus when abducting eye on affected side and unable to adduct the opposite eye

Bilateral INO seen in MS due to demyelination of the MLF

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List 8 clinical findings associated with MS. (Goljan)

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  1. Sensory dysfx
  2. UMN dysfx
    - including babinski
  3. Autonomic dysfx
    - urge incontinence
    - sexual dysfx
    - bowel motility problems
  4. Optic neuritis
    - inflammation of optic nerve
    - blurry or sudden loss of vision
  5. Cerebellar ataxia
  6. Scanning speech (sound drunk)
  7. Intention tremor (nystagmus)
  8. Bilateral INO
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What test can be used to assess for evidence of primary demyelination/remyelination pathophysiology?

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Visual evoked potentials

-delay after remyelination occurs

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CSF findings in MS

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ALWAYS IMAGE FIRST

  1. slight pleocytosis (10-15 lymphocytes)
  2. Elevated CSF index (>0.6) -> too much IgG present in CSF relative to plasma
  3. Oligoclonal bands
    - measure IgG spikes
    - compare to serum
    - allowed to have one more than what is present in the serum
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What’s one thing you should always check for when MS exacerbation is suspected?

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INFECTION

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Central pontine myelinolysis

  • pathophys
  • cause by
  • increased risk from
  • clinical presentation
  • imaging
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  1. Path - demyelination of ventral pons
  2. Caused by rapid correction of hyponatremia
  3. Increased risk from malnutrition and alcohol
  4. Locked in state, quadriplegia or even coma
  5. Imaging
    - Increased T2 signal in the pons
    - trident sign
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PML tends to attack which area of the brain? What sxs are seen? What is the time course?

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Posterior areas

Aphasia, visual defects and hemiparesis

Subacute to chronic onset

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Diagnosis for PML

  • MRI
  • CSF
  • Serum
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  1. MRI
    - non-enhancing
    - no mass effects
  2. CSF
    - pcr for JCV virus
  3. Serum
    - Serum JC antibodies (found in 60-80% of population)
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What is IRIS and it’s association with PML?

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  • Reconstituting immune system leading to intense inflammatory reaction in region of PML
  • Can cause herniation
  • Seen when AIDS patients put on triple therapy (HAART)
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Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis

  • onset time course
  • Follows what?
  • how can it lead to death
  • MRI findings
  • CSF
  • Treatment
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  1. Onset
    -rapid (hours to days)
    headache -> lethargy -> coma
  2. Follows viral infection or vaccination
    viral -> express Ag that cross reacts w/ myelin
    vaccination -> measles
  3. Death due to cerebral edema and mass effect if not txed
  4. MRI
    - Gadolinium enhancement of white matter
    - remember PML is non-enhancing
  5. CSF
    - moderate lymphocytic pleocytosis (50-100 cells)
    - elevated protein
    - oligoclonal bands (less common)
  6. Treatment
    - IV methylprednisolone (1000 mg)
    - hemicraniectomy may be necessary
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Charcot Marie Tooth Disease

  • which type of neuropathy?
  • progression time?
  • rarely complain of?
  • inheritance?
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  • length dependent sensorimotor peripheral neuropathy
  • progresses over years to decades
  • rarely complain of numbness or tingling
  • autosomal dominant
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CMT-1 conduction velocity (slow or fast)

compare the 3 types of CMT-1

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CMT1 has very slow conduction velocities (dysmyelinating)

CMT1A

  • PMP22 duplication
  • 75% of all CMT1

CMT1B
-myelin protein zero
20% of all CMT1

CMT1X

  • looks like CMT1 but never has male to male inheritance
  • connexin 32
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CMT-2 conduction velocity (slow or fast)

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normal motor conduction velocity

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What is the most common hereditary ataxia?

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Friedreich’s ataxia

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Friedreich’s ataxia

  • inheritance
  • gene involved and what does it code for
  • age group
  • sx triad
  • other systems associated
  • tx
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  1. autosomal recessive
  2. Frataxin gene deficiency (9q13)
    - trinucleotide repeat disorder
    - deficiency leads to impaired mitochondrial iron homeostasis
    - cells are more prone to apoptosis
  3. Adolescent and young adults - slow onset
  4. Triad
    - absent ankle reflexes (peripheral neuropathy)
    - bilateral babinski
    - dysmetria (ataxia)
  5. Multisystems
    - hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (major)
    - diabetes (1:4)
    - scoliosis (1:4)
6. Tx
–Treat diabetes 
–Correct scoliosis
–Manage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy 
•  vigilant blood pressure control
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Suspicion for Huntington’s based on?

Age of onset?

Huntington gene?

MRI findings?

Best test to dx?

How do you tx?

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Triad

  • psychiatric/cognitive probs
  • chorea
  • dominant inheritance

Age
5-70 (usually 25-45)

Huntington gene (expanded GAG repeats; chromosome 4)

MRI - caudate atrophy/diffuse atrophy
-these occur later

GENETIC TESTING IS BEST

Treatment
-Atypical and traditional antipsychotics can help
psychosis, SSRIs depression, anxiolytics for anxiety
-No treatment effective for primary process

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ALS

  • clinical presentation
  • what’s spared
  • inheritance?
  • cognition?
  • pathogenesis
  • dx
  • treatment
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  1. clinical presentation
    - UMN and LMN signs
    - usually starts in intrinsic muscles of the hands
  2. sensation, bladder/bowel fx and eye control are spared!
  3. 5-10% dominantly inheritance
  4. Cognition spared but subset have frontotemporal dementia
  5. Mutated or misfolded SOD1 leading to apoptosis of neurons
  6. Dx of exclusion
    - MRI
    - EMG
    - FVC
  7. Treatment
    Riluzole - glutamate antagonist
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What is the safety margin percentage beyond which patients with alzheimer’s start to display symptoms

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20%

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List all the histological changes associated with Alzheimer's. What location do you expect these changes to occur? (be able to recognize the image)
Cerebral cortex and hippocampus - neuritic plaques - neurofibrillary tangles - granulovacuolar degeneration - congophilic angiopathy: beta amyloid - Hirano bodies
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The Pittsburgh compound binds to what? How is it visualized?
Binds to amyloid deposits Visualized on PET scan
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Frontotemporal lobar degeneration often initially presents with what? Often misdxed as? Late stage sxs?
EARLY Personality and behavior changes -Misdxed as psychiatric disorder LATE - gradual reduction in speech - akinesia and rigidity
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Highlight some of the differences b/w (there are 2)
FTD - earlier onset compared to AD - at an early stage, do not cause the memory loss and visuo-spatial disorientation that are so characteristic of AD
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What cortical areas are affected with FTD (there are 5)
1. ACC 2. Frontal insula 3. Frontal pole 4. Orbitofrontal cortex 5. Temporal pole
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Pick's disease - age of onset - inheritance - clinical course - area of brain affected - compensatory mechs - tx
- age around 60 - sometimes autosomal dominant - clinical course 2 - 5 years (dead) - Extreme frontotemporal atrophy (knife like gyria) - compensatory hydrocephalus - no tx
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Huntington's disease - inheritance - age range - late manifestations (decade of life) - early changes - late changes
1. Inheritance - autosomal dominant 2. Age range - 20 to 50 3. Late manifestations - 4th to 5th decades 4. Early changes - personality and depression 5. Choreiform movements, jerking and dementia
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Huntington's genetics - which chromosome affected - type of mutation
- chromosome 4 | - expanded unstable trinucleotide (CAG) repeat -> more repeats = earlier onset of disease
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Which regions of the brain are damaged in Huntington's? What's the structural consequence of these changes?
Marked atrophy of the caudate nucleus - loss of small to medium sized neurons - fibrillary gliosis (astrocytosis) Putamen and cortical atrophy -variable Ex vacuo dilations of the anterior horns of lateral ventricles
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ALS - UMN or LMN? - Males vs females - age - breakdown of sporadic vs familial - Which chromosome (what does it code for)
1. Both UMN and LMN - UMN -> prefrontal cortex - LMN -> CN nuclei and anterior horn cells of SC 2. Males > females 3. Age > 40 4. 90% sporadic; 10% familial 5. Chromosome 21q - codes for superoxide dismutase - toxic action of mutated enzyme -> decreased zinc binding capacity
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ALS clinical presentation
Initial presentation - asymmetrical weakness LMN: muscle atrophy, weakness, fasciculations UMN: weakness and spasticity Progressive w/ loss of all voluntary movement; death from respiratory failure or sepsis Intellect unimpaired
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ALS variants - progressive bulbar palsy - progressive muscular atrophy - primary lateral sclerosis
1. Cranial nerve involvement - dysarthria, dysphagia and respiratory compromise 2. Predominant LMN involvement - spinal cord anterior horn involvement 3. Confined to the corticospinal tract - UMN
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Friedreich's ataxia - inheritance - mutation (which chromosome/type) - function of the gene
1. autosomal dominant 2. Chromosome 9 - trinucleotide (GAA) expansion on gene coding for frataxin - results in low levels of the protein - frataxin plays a role in iron homeostasis in the mitochondria - get mitochondrial iron accumulation - cells are more prone to apoptosis
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Friedreich's ataxia | -sites of degeneration (from goljan = 5)
- DRG - Posterior columns - Spinocerebellar tracts - lateral corticospinal tracts - large sensory peripheral neurons
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Friedreich's ataxia | -clinical findings (5)
- progressive - gait ataxia to ataxia of all extremities - loss of tendon reflexes, cerebellar dysarthria - impaired joint position, vibration - pes cavus: arches feet, claw toes
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Friedreich's ataxia | -associated with (from goljan = 2)
- hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | - DM1 (10%)
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What is the most useful diagnosis for CJD?
EEG - Slow (1-2 cycles/sec) generalized triphasic periodic sharp wave complexes
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How does FLAIR MRI work? What is it good for?
- facilitates the visualization of ABNORMAL parenchymal water content resulting from pathology - great for edema generating pathology and white matter lesions (such as MS)
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What is the signature feature seen on microscopy with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) - what's lost? - infiltrates?
narrow cuffs or sleeves of myelin loss around small veins | -cellular infiltrates in demyelinated areas are composed of macrophages
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Is level of consciousness affected with dementia?
NOOOOOO
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What's the single most important treatable cause of dementia?
Pseudo-dementia secondary to DEPRESSION
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Peripheral neuropathy with myelopathy suggests?
B-12 deficiency -combination of increased and absent reflexes
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Risk 3 causes of metabolic dementia
1. Hypothyroidism 2. DM - repeated episodes of hypoglycemia - risk factor for multi-infarct dementia 3. B-12 deficiency - surgery - anemia
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Describe the spontaneous movements seen with the following diseases? 1. Parkinsons 2. Huntingtons 3. Prions
1. Tremors 2. Chorea 3. Myoclonus
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Triad for normal pressure hydrocephalus Describe the CSF
Triad -dementia, gait apraxia, incontinence CSF is normal (including pressure) -no papilledema
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List 4 risk factors for multi-infarct dementia
- HTN - diabetes - cardiac disease - age
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Nucleus basalis of Meynert - affected in which disease? - which NT produced here?
- Alzheimer's | - cholinergic
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List 3 brain pathologies that are more likely to occur in alcoholics
- subdural hematoma - closed head injuries - chronic meningitis
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Which drug sometimes given to Parkinson's disease patients causes dementia?
Cogentin (benztropine) -> anticholinergic
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What are the initial sxs seen with dementia w/ Lewy bodies what's spared initially? what follows the cognitive changes?
- visual hallucinations - REM sleep disorders - delirium - memory initially spared (frontal and executive fxs affected) - Parkinsonism follows
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Frontotemporal dementia - common as Alzheimer's in which age group? - what precedes memory probs? - extrapyramidal findings? - sparing of?
1. 50 - 70 2. Frontal lobe dysfx - disinhibition, apathy, compulsion - impaired judgement, planning and lack of insight 3. axial rigidity and dystonia 4. Sparing of cholinergic system
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DSM-IV classification for mental illness requires what 3 conditions?
- present distress - disability - increased risk of pain, death, disability or an important loss of freedom
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# Define the five axes used to classify diagnoses in the DSM-IV What needs to be ruled out before axis I dx can be made? Which one doesn't have a pharmacological intervention?
Axis I - diagnoses for all major psychiatric disorders -axis III must be ruled out first Axis II - Diagnoses of personality or developmental disorders -no pharm intervention Axis III - diagnoses of other medical illnesses Axis IV - current stresses Axis V - level of functioning
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Diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder SIG E CAPS
Episodes lasting 6-12 months. Episodes = 5/9 of the following sxs for at least 2 weeks * Sleep disturbance * Loss of Interest (anhedonia) * Guilt or feelings of worthlessness * Loss of Energy * Loss of Concentration * Appetite/weight changes * Psychomotor retardation or agitation * Suicidal ideations * Depressed mood
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What are 4 key domains of development?
- gross motor - fine motor - speech - social
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Childhood febrile seizures - key points - Age - how common - recurrence risk - epilepsy risk
Age -> 6 months to 5 years Fairly common Recurrence risk - 1/3 Epilepsy risk - 2%
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What's an important difference b/w workup of simple febrile seizure vs non-fibrile seizure
Do imaging and get EEG with non-febrile
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2 lesion causes that may cause focal seizures
Cysticercosis and AVM
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Non-febrile seizures in children - key points * Common * Recurrence risk idiopathic * Recurrence risk symptomatic * Treat * Safety
* Common - yes * Recurrence risk idiopathic - 30% * Recurrence risk symptomatic(e.g. lesion) - 70% * Treat - not if it's there first * Safety
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Describe focal seizure presentation
staring seizure w/ automatic behaviors (e.g. lip smacking) followed by ictal phase
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Offset seen with absence epilepsy
Abrupt - child returns to normal awareness and activity
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The term developmental delay is reserved for kids up until what age?
5 or 6
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Head circumference in child indicative of CNS prob
2 SD below normal CHECK IN KIDS UNDER 3
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Diagnosis of delirium
Confusion assessment method -requires 1 AND 2 and either 3 OR 4 ``` ○ #1 Acute and Fluctuating course ○ #2 Inattention ○ #3 Disorganized thinking ○ #4 Altered L.O.C.  ```
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3 regions of the brain involved with delirium
1. Prefrontal cortex 2. anterior thalamus 3. nondominant parietal and fusiform cortex
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Mechanism of delirium
- cholinergic deficiency - serotonin deficiency - GABA and DA - inflammation via cytokines (IL-2 or TNF)
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List 4 predisposing risk factors for delirium
1. Advanced age 2. Preexisting dementia 3. Functional impairment in ADL 4. High medical comorbidities - sever heart failure
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Precipitating risk factors for delirium I WATCH DEATH
• Infection: -especially urine and respiratory tract • Withdrawal: -benzodiazepines, alcohol, lack of sensory input (poor vision, hearing) • Acute metabolic: -medication side effects, especially sedating or anticholinergics • Trauma: • CNS Pathology: -intracranial hemorrhage, stroke, tumor • Hypoxia: -Acute myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, CHF or COPD exacerbation • Deficiencies: -B12, folate • Endocrinopathies: • Acute Vascular: -stroke • Toxins • Heavy Metals (lead, mercury) 
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Identify 4 key steps in the management of delirium
1. Identify and treat reversible contributors 2. Maintain behavioral control 3. Anticipate and prevent or manage complications 4. Restore function in delirious pts.
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2 drugs most likely to be the cause of delirium?
Alcohol and benadryl
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Autonomic system activated in appetitive vs consummatory phases
Appetitive -activation of motor behavior and sympathetic nervous system Consummatory -involves rest, sedation and activation of the parasympathetic nervous system
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What is the pleasure center in the brain - integration site for what structures? - interface b/w which systems?
NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS (Pleasure center) • Integration site for cortical (prefrontal cortex) and subcortical (VTA, amygdala) input • Critical interface between limbic and motor systems thus linking motivation and action
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Common output pathway for drug reward is from nucleus accumbens to motor areas via the?
Ventral pallidum
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Reward deficiency syndrome cause?
- due to a genetic deficiency in D2 DA receptor | - A1 allele carries -> 74% of developing on the the disorders associated with this syndrome
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2 mechanisms through which alcohol mediates its effects? | -which receptor systems
Enhances action of inhibitory GABA receptor complex DECREASES the actions of the excitatory NMDA receptor
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Alcohol pharmacokinetics - absorption - metabolism - elimination
ABSORPTION - 1/4 through stomach - rest through small intestines METABOLISM -liver ELIMINATION - 90% by oxidation in the liver - 10% through lungs and kidneys
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Alcohol pharmacodynamics - basic MoA - list the neurochemical targets
Basic MoA -acts on membrane proteins and disrupts membrane functioning at high doses Neurochemical targets - GABA - GLUTAMATE - DA - 5-TH - OPIOIDS
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Alcohol use disorder genetics - how much do genetics play a role? - number of genes involved? - inheritance pattern
1. 50% 2. multiple 3. male to male
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Alcohol w/drawal | -time frame for seizures and delirium tremens
SEIZURES - first 48 hours - need to admit and tx DELIRIUM TREMENS - highest risk on days 3 to 5 - Symptoms in order of appearance: autonomic system hyperactivity (tachycardia, tremors, anxiety, seizures), psychotic symptoms (hallucinations, delusions), confusion. - Treatment: benzodiazepines.
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Acute vs chronic tolerance with nicotine use
Acute - activation and desensitization of NAChRs in CNS Chronic - upregulation of NAChRs
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5 A's for brief intervention in nicotine users -effect on quit rate?
• ASK-identify all nicotine users at every visit • ADVISE-urge all nicotine users to quit • ASSESS-determine willingness to make a quit attempt • ASSIST-Aid the patient in quitting • ARRANGE-Schedule follow-up contact • Repeated use → doubles quit rate
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5 R's to motivate nicotine users to quit
RELEVANCE RISKS REWARDS ROADBLOCKS REPETITION
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Test for detecting heavy alcohol use in the past 4-7 days
Carbohydrate deficient transferrin (CDT)
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Most sensitive way to determine alcohol in system
CDT + GGT
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Probs with urinary drug screen when checking for opioid use
• Might not catch the synthetics – oxycodone, hydromorphone • Fentanyl and methadone don’t show up typically -May need to do an assay
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craniosynostosis
-premature closure causes abnormal shape in skull as underlying brain grows
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Muscles derived from the pharyngeal arches and nerves
Arch 1 - muscles of mastication - V Arch 2 - muscles of facial expression - VII Arch 3 - stylopharyngeus - IX Arch 4 - muscles of pharynx - X (superior laryngeal nerve) Arch 6 - muscles of larynx - X (recurrent laryngeal nerve)
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Sensory innervation for: - oral and nasal cavities - pharynx - larynx (think cranial to caudal)
- -CN V is GSA for oral and nasal cavities - -CN IX is GVA for pharynx - -CN X is GVA for larynx
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Physical signs of first arch syndromes | which syndrome included?
Low set ears and small jaw | Treacher Collins
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Tongue develops from which arches?
Parts of 1 - distal tongue bud 3 and 4 - hypopharyngeal eminence
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Sensory innervation to mucosa of the tongue
- -CN V supplies sensory for anterior 2/3 of tongue (GSA) - -CN IX supplies posterior 1/3 (GVA) - -CN X supplies epiglottis (GVA)
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Which tongue skeletal muscle is not innervated by hypoglossal?
Palatoglossus (CN X)
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Thyroid gland develops as growth from
foramen cecum
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Thyroglossal cyst
--cysts are remnants of thyroglossal duct --on midline, associated with hyoid bone --surgical removal includes removal of midline hyoid bone (Sistrunk procedure)
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Derivatives of pharyngeal pouches
1st - middle ear 2nd - palatine tonsils 3rd - Thymus and inferior parathyroid gland 4th - superior parathyroid gland
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C-cells of thyroid gland formed from
ultimobranchial body (neural crest)
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DiGeorge syndrome - signs - which pouches - organ systems - defect in
- micrognathia (small jaw) - agenesis of 3rd and 4th pouch derivatives (no thymus or PTHs) - cardiovascular anomalies - caused by defect in, or abnormal migration of, neural crest cells
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Holoprosencephaly
syndrome resulting from improper development of the forebrain, causes facial anomalies Fetal alcohol syndrome
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Embryological separation of primary and secondary palate
incisive fossa
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Pierre robin syndrome | 3 things
micrognathia, cleft palate, glossoptisis
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foster kennedy syndrome - most common cause - signs and sxs
-meningioma signs and sxs - ipsilateral anosmia -> olfactory bulb - ipsilateral optic atrophy -> optic nerve - contralateral papilledema -> inc ICP
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Medial medullary syndrome - infarct of which artery - causes
- penetrating branches of anterior spinal artery | - alternating hypoglossal hemiplegia

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