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| approach to neurologic diagnosis |
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localization
time course demographic features |
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acute
subacute
chronic
transient/recurrent/episodic |
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| characteristic spatial-temporal profiles |
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certain disease processes can be predicted based on their spatial-temporal profile
-temporal: acute state, acute progressive, subacute, chronic
-spatial: focal or diffuse |
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| static, acute, focal process |
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vascular (from ischemia - stroke, TIA)
trauma |
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| progressive, acute, focal process |
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vascular (hemorrhage)
trauma |
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| static, acute, diffuse process |
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toxic/metabolic
trauma (concussion) |
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| progressive, acute diffuse process |
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vascular (SAH)
trauma (SAH)
toxic/metabolic |
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inflammatory (meningitis)
toxic/metabolic |
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degenerative
toxic/metabolic |
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| processes that can cause focal, transient or recurrent symptoms |
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| processed that can cause diffuse transient or recurrent symptoms |
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| hypoperfusion, migraine, seizure, metabolic |
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| higher cortical functions |
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control systems
language
praxis
attention
memory |
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Wernicke's area
Broca's area
arcuate fasiculus |
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posterior temporal cortex
recognizes linguistic structures incorporated in a string of sounds |
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inferior lateral frontal lobe (anterior to region of motor strip for face)
translates linguistic structures into the motor programs necessary for producing speech |
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bundle of communications between Wernicke's and Broca's areas
make up the circuit for repetition of spoken language |
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can't read, but can still write
PCA infarct of L (dominant hemisphere)
disconnects L angular gyrus (naming center) from both R and L visual cortex |
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inability to perform a previously learned set of coordinated movements even though the necessary component skills remain intact
lesion in language dominant hemisphere |
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-usually numb/weak on one-side
-ignore that whole side of the world
can occur with lesions to either hemisphere, more common/severe in the non-dominant hemisphere (esp. parietal lobe) |
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| each hemisphere directs attention to the contralateral word, but the NON-dominant hemisphere also attends to the ipsilateral world |
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oxidative stress
excitotoxicity
apoptosis
gliosis
protein sequestration
trinucleotide repeats
ion channel abnormalities |
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