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No insight into visual loss

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Cortical blindness (Anton-Babinski syndrome)

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Neuropathy + heart failure

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Wet beriberi

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Absent gag reflex + tongue wasting and fasciculations + nasal speech

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Bulbar palsy

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Loss of buttock sensation + urinary incontinence

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Cauda equina syndrome

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Inverted champagne bottle legs

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome

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Lucid interval before rapid decline in consciousness

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Extradural haemorrhage

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URTI followed by distal limb weakness + sensory loss + type II respiratory failure

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Guillain-Barré syndrome

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Parkinsonism + autonomic changes

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Multisystem atrophy

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IgG antibodies to ACh receptors

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Myasthenia gravis

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Anterior mediastinal tumour

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Thymoma (myasthenia gravis)

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Café-au-lait spots

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Type I neurofibromatosis

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Lisch nodules

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Type I neurofibromatosis

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13
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Axillary/inguinal freckling

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Type I neurofibromatosis

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14
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Bilateral acoustic neuromas

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Type II neurofibromatosis

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15
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Cognitive impairment + gait dyspraxia + urinary incontinence

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Normal pressure hydrocephalus

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Ventricular dilatation with involutional changes on CT head

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Normal pressure hydrocephalus

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17
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Pale discs on fundoscopy

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Optic atrophy

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LMN lesion of CN IX, X and XII

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Bulbar palsy

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UMN lesion of CN IX, X and XII

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Pseudobulbar palsy

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Increased gag reflex and jaw jerk + spastic tongue + Donald Duck speech

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Pseudobulbar palsy

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Unilateral facial palsy + pain + vesicles

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Ramsay Hunt syndrome (herpes zoster)

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22
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Vision loss with normal fundoscopy

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Retrobulbar neuritis

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23
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Delay in visual evoked response

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Retrobulbar neuritis

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24
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Stepwise loss of cognitive function

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Vascular dementia

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Senile plaques + neurofibrillary tangles + Tao bodies
Alzheimer's disease
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Xanthochromia
Subarachnoid haemorrhage
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Oligoclonal bands + IgG
Multiple sclerosis
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Chorea + dementia
Huntington's disease
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Superior quadrantanopia
Temporal lobe lesion
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Inferior quadrantanopia
Parietal lobe lesion
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Ophthalmoplegia + ataxia + confusion
Wernicke's encephalopathy
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Nystagmus/ataxia + intention tremor + dysarthria (scanning/staccato speech)
Multiple sclerosis (Charcot's triad)
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Pupils that constrict with accommodation but not light
Argyll Robertson pupils
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3Hz EEG spike
Absence seizure
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Pseudopalisading necrosis
Glioblastoma multiforme
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Psammoma bodies + spindle cells
Meningioma
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Biconvex collection on CT
Extradural haemorrhage
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S100 stain
Schwannoma
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Conjugate lateral gaze palsy + horizontal diplopia
Multiple sclerosis (internuclear ophthalmoplegia due to medial longitudinal fasciculus injury)
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Sleep deprivation
Epilepsy
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Positive Romberg's test
Peripheral sensory nerve lesion
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Weakness + Hx of transient unilateral vision loss in young woman
Multiple sclerosis
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Relative afferent pupillary defect
Multiple sclerosis
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Blurred vision + impaired colour discrimination
Multiple sclerosis
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Foot drop + loss of sensation over 1st dorsal web space
Common peroneal nerve lesion
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Loss of sensation over sole of foot
Tibial nerve lesion
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Difficulty raising child post-Caesarean pregnancy
High spinal anaesthesia
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Pleomorphic astrocytes + necrosis
Glioblastoma multiforme
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Ill-defined lesion expanding corpus callosum and compressing ventricles
Glioblastoma multiforme
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Expressive/non-fluent dysphasia
Frontal lobe lesion (Broca's area)
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Receptive/fluent dysphasia
Temporal lobe lesion (Wernicke's area)
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Jargon speech
Temporal lobe lesion (Wernicke's area)
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Homonymous hemianopia + receptive/fluent dysphasia
Temporoparietal lobe lesion
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Contralateral hemiparesis + homonymous hemianopia
PCA stroke
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Sudden headache + papilloedema + empty delta sign on CT
Sagittal sinus thrombosis
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Thrombophilia + sudden headache
Sagittal sinus thrombosis
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Festinating gait
Parkinson's disease
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Waddling gait
Proximal myopathy
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Stroke with pupillary constriction
Pontine stroke
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Alexia without agraphia (can't read but can write)
PCA stroke
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Hypotension (widened pulse pressure) + bradycardia + irregular respiration
Elevated intracranial pressure (Cushing's triad)
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Dementia + localised brain atrophy
Pick's disease (type of frontotemporal dementia)
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Foot drop after hip replacement
Sciatic nerve
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Fixed, dilated pupil + down-and-out eye
CN III palsy
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Vertical diplopia on looking down
CN IV palsy
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Bielschowsky test
CN IV palsy
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Hallucinations + Parkinsonian symptoms
Lewy body dementia
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Disinhibition + executive dysfunction + Pick cell/bodies
Frontotemporal dementia
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Fever + meningism + confusion
Encephalitis
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Aura + seizure + postictal amnesia
Complex focal seizure
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Focal seizure without impaired consciousness
Simple focal seizure
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Automatisms
Focal temporal lobe seizure
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Déjà/jamais vu
Focal temporal lobe seizure
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Jacksonian march
Focal frontal lobe seizure
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Olfactory/gustatory hallucinations
Focal temporal lobe (uncus) seizure
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Auditory hallucinations
Focal temporal lobe (auditory cortex) seizure
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Seizure with emotional disturbance (e.g. terror, panic, anger, elation)
Focal temporal lobe (hippocampus) seizure
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Todd's palsy (transient focal weakness)
Focal frontal lobe seizure
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Down-and-out eye + headache after head trauma
Extradural haemorrhage
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Purpuric rash + meningism
Neisseria meningitides
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Lhermitte sign (electric pain down spine/legs on neck flexion)
Multiple sclerosis
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Parkinsonism + vertical gaze palsy
Progressive supranuclear palsy
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High CSF protein + demyelination after infection
Guillain-Barré syndrome
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Atrophy of caudate and putamen
Huntington's disease

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