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1
Q

Most common age for medulloblastoma

A

Kids (3-8 years old)

2
Q

Glioblastoma most common age

A

60 for primary

45 for secondary

3
Q

Pilocytic astrocytoma most common age

A

childhood

4
Q

Pilocytic astrocytoma most common location

A

cerebellar hemispheres, optic nerves and chiasm, and hypothalamic region

5
Q

Meningioma age

A

women in 50s

6
Q

Ependymoma age

A

first two decades of life

7
Q

Ependymoma location

A

4th ventricle or spinal chord in adults

8
Q

Ependymoma grade

A

II or III

9
Q

AD general category of neurodegenerative disease

A

tauopathy and amyloid plaques

10
Q

AD brain sites

A

cortex

11
Q

Pick’s disease category of neurodegenerative disease

A

tauopathy

12
Q

Pick’s disease brain sites

A

frontal and temporal lobes

13
Q

Pick’s disease characteristic features

A

Ubiquitin
Tau
Pick bodies

14
Q

Parkinson’s general category of neurodegenerative disease

A

synucleinopathy

15
Q

Parkinson’s brain sites

A

substantia nigra (subcortical)

16
Q

Spongiform change

A

prions

17
Q

Huntington’s brain sites

A

caudate and putamen