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| what sort of lesion is found in Broca's aphasia? |
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| what is often comorbid with Broca's? |
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| what is the lesion in Wernicke's aphasia? |
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| what is the lesion in conduction aphasia? |
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| how is fluency in Broca's? |
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| how is fluency in Wernicke's? |
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| how is comprehension in Broca's? |
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| how is comprehension in Wernike's? |
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| how is fluency in conduction aphasia? |
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| how is comprehension in conduction aphasia? |
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| 5 elements of normal gait |
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| strength (UMN, LMN) Coordination (cerebellum) Posture (extrapyramid) Sensation (DCT) Memory/Concept |
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| hemiplegic gait indicates? |
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| foot drop (peroneal n. vs L5) |
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| Park gait, leaning forward and then running to catch up |
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| what is Friedrich's ataxia? |
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| a problem w/ the dorsal spinal cord |
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| what causes Friedrich's ataxia? |
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| resting tremor indicates? |
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| kinetic tremor indicates? |
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| slow, continual, writhing of limbs |
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| what is knocked out in Huntington's to produce chorea? |
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| rapid, violent flinging of proximal limbs |
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| continual contraction of muscles |
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| repetitive, semipurposeful, stereotyped movement |
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| rapid, shocklike movements of the arms |
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| loss of postural tone of hands/feet |
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| how does one treat a Park temor? |
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| how does one treat an essential tremor? |
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| how does one treat choreoathetosis, ballismus, and tics? |
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| how does one treat dystonia? |
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| sx assoc w/ lesion of frontal lobe |
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| disinhibition, lack of concern, poor judgement, apathy, poor hygiene, imcontinence, sexual behavior, slowed/distractable fxn, frontal lobe release signs, gegenhalten |
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| sx assoc w/ lesion of the temporal lobe |
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| B/L: amnesia (hippo), cortical deafness, Kluver-Bucy. dominant u/l: Wernicke's aphasia |
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| sx assoc w/ lesion of parietal lobe |
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| sensory deficit, anosognosia, hemispat neglect, dressing/construction apraxia, Gerstmann's |
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| dominant parietal lobe lesion |
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| agraphia, R-L problems, dyscalculia, finger agnosia |
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| sx assoc w/ lesion of the occipital lobe |
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| B/L: denial of cortical blindness, visual agnosia U/L: color anomia |
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| what are the frontal lobe release signs? |
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| pt unawareness of hemiparesis |
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| fluctuating attn, conc, motor activitiy; impairment of mem/lang/thinking/coord; mood change/halluc; motor signs |
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| hx, focal neuro exam, neuropsych exam, imaging, blood/CSF |
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| dec brain weight, gen atrophy of cortex, enlargement of ventricles |
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| gliosis/neuron loss in subcortical nn: cholinergic n. basilis, NEergic LC, 5HTergic raphe midline |
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| AChEi, NSAIDS, estrogen, sedative |
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| with what sort of lesion might you see perseveration? |
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| with what sort of lesion might you see agraphesthesia? |
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| diagnostic microscopic features of Alz |
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| B-amyloid plaques, neurofibrillary tangles |
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| what causes optic atrophy? |
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| loss of ganglion cell axons |
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| sudden visual loss + pain w/ EOM, optic disk appears swollen |
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| field deficit assoc w/ pituitary tumor |
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| initial b/l sup temp quantopsia, eventual ditemporal hemianopsia |
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| field deficit assoc w/ temporal lobe tumor |
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| c/l superior homo quandrantopsia |
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| what might one conclude if the NB/DH test resulted in right nystagmus? |
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| that the post ssc on that lowered side is "overly sensitive" |
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| conductive hearing loss hi/lo? |
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| sensineural hearing loss hi/lo? |
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| what is Meniere's disease? |
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| membranous labyrinth swells and ruptures |
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| vertigo, tinnitus, deafness, nystagmus, ataxia |
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