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Parietal lobe damage results in
all the a’s
Apraxia
acalculia
agraphia
drawing apraxia
asterogenesis
Visual field
Inferior quadrantanopia
Frontal lobe dmage symptoms
Personality change
Brocas - expressive aphasia
Abnormal affective
Primitive reflexes
Preservation
Occipital lobe damage symptmos
Cortical blindness
Homonymous hemianopia
Agnosia
Temporal lobe damage symptoms
Wernickes -
Deafness
Memory impairment
Emotional distrubance - limbic cortex
Visual field - superior quadratanopia
Signs of UMN lesions
Hypertonia
Hyperreflexia
Weakness
Soastcitiy
Extensor pallor
Hemiplegia/sensory loss
Dysphasia - if L dominant
Signs of LMN lesions
Absent reflexes
Reduced tone
Spasticity
Fasciculations
Post Cerebral artery occlusion symptoms
Pain and temp loss contralateral side
Vomit and vertigo
Ipsilateral Horners
Numb facce
DANISH - cerebellar signs
Decreased gag refelex
Palatal paralysis
What causes pseudobulbar palsy?
Lower brainstem infarct
What part of brain controls comatose state
Reticular activationg system
Window for treatment of stroke
4.5 hours
DVT prevention
early mobilisation after surgery
TED stockings
Enoxiparin
PACS + TACS
partial or total nterior cerebral artery
LACS causes
lacuna cererbral stroke
Small infarcts, localised deficits
What gene is linked to stroke
CADASIL
What is fabrys disease
What is Bells palsy
Ischaemic com[ression of CNVII in facial canca;
Causes of bells pasly
stroke, infection - HSV, VZV,
parotid tumours, middel ear disease
Corticospinal tract function
Desc motor
Decussates at midbrain
Dorsal column
Ascending sensory
Proprioception and vibration
Decussates after synapse at medulla
Spinothalamic tract function
Ascending sensory, temp and pain
Decussates immediate;y
How long dos chronic inflammatory demyelonating neuropathy have to last for
8 weekswith no improvement
Finidings CT head in subdural haematoma chronic
Hypodense crescenteric collection not limited by suture lines
