Caudate degeneration - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

NURS 660 Psychopharmacology Exam 1 Review 2023. Know the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, where they originate from, and what medications treat these symptoms. Positive symptoms:  psychosis, hallucinations, delusions  Mesolimbic origin  Medications: D2 antagonists Negative symptoms:  more related to mood disturbance, apathy, anhedonia, neuroleptic dysphoria, cognitive blunting  Mesocortical/prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, reward circuit origins ...

What is Huntington's Disease? - inherited disorder, malfunction of Huntington gene located on chromosome 4 - repeat of CAG triplets What is the pathology of HD? - severe loss of neurons in the caudate and putamen with subsequent astrocytosis; head of caudate becomes shrunken and there is dilatation of the anterior horns of lateral ventricles; also see neuronal degeneration within the temporal and frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, globus pallidus, thalamus, subthalamic nucleus, substant...

What is Huntington's Disease? - inherited disorder, malfunction of Huntington gene located on chromosome 4 - repeat of CAG triplets What is the pathology of HD? - severe loss of neurons in the caudate and putamen with subsequent astrocytosis; head of caudate becomes shrunken and there is dilatation of the anterior horns of lateral ventricles; also see neuronal degeneration within the temporal and frontal lobes of the cerebral cortex, globus pallidus, thalamus, subthalamic nucleus, substant...

Che Gout, MR, self-mutilating behavior in a boy - Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (HGPRT deficiency, Xlinked recessive) st pain, pericardial effusion/friction rub, persistent fever following MI - Dressler's (autoimmune post-MI) Achilles tendon xanthoma - Familial hypercholesterolemia Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC - Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia) Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints - Marfan's (fibrillin defect) Athlete with polycythemi...

Spine – Stenosis All Answers Correct what is spinal stenosis ️narrowing of an opening, lumen, etc. in the lumbar spine, what are the two kinds of stenosis ️central spine stenosis and lateral foraminal stenosis in the cervical spine, what are the two kinds of stenosis ️central spine stenosis and myelopathy lateral foramina stenosis in the lumbar spine, what is the definition of central spine stenosis ️narrowing of the central canal, placing pressure on the caudate equina ...

Where and why are lumbar punctures performed? - Answer- Spinal Block -> Anesthetic (into epidural space) Spinal Tap -> CSF extraction (into subarachnoid space)W B/W L3/L4 or L4/L5 NB: Posterior to this is *cauda equina* Where does a *herniated intervertebral* disk occur? What causes it? - Answer- Occurs b/w L4/L5 or *L5/S1* and C5/C6 or C6/C7 NB: affects lower spinal nerve # Degeneration of annulus fibrosis followed by *sudden compression* of nucleus pulposus What is the dif...

NURS 660 Psychopharmacology Exam 1 Review 2024. Know the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, where they originate from, and what medications treat these symptoms. Positive symptoms:  psychosis, hallucinations, delusions  Mesolimbic origin  Medications: D2 antagonists Negative symptoms:  more related to mood disturbance, apathy, anhedonia, neuroleptic dysphoria, cognitive blunting  Mesocortical/prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, reward circuit origins ...

MTM Exam 4 Diseases Latest Update with Verified Solutions DMD -loss of function, recessive, haplosufficiency -symptoms present < 5 yoa -progressive symmetrical muscular weakness -wheelchair dependent by 12-13 yoa -life expectancy = teens - 30s -do not reproduce -calf pseudohypertrophy -elevated serum creatine kinase -unable to perform neck flexion -complete absence of dystrophin -mutations: deletions, frameshift, nonsense -exon length is NOT a multiple of 3 -frameshifts -> null mutations ...

Abdominal pain, ascites, hepatomegaly, (also high D dimer, CHF without JVD) Budd-Chiari syndrome Achilles tendon xanthoma Familial hypercholesterolemia Adrenal hemorrhage, hypotension, DIC Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome (meningococcemia) Arachnodactyly, lens dislocation, aortic dissection, hyperflexible joints Marfan's (fibrillin defect) Athlete with polycythemia Erythropoietin injection Back pain, fever, night sweats, weight loss Pott's (TB to the ve...

A 67-year-old woman who has been in very good health is brought to her physician's office by her husband. He states that over the course of the last 5 years, she has difficulty recognizing her grandchildren, he must do all the planning for their daily activities, she forgets that she has things cooking on the stove, and he sometimes finds her wandering through the house at night with an "absent" look on her face. She is beginning to demonstrate difficulty in recalling the names of ...