Flashcards
Nervous 1+2

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- 1—Lobes of the brain

- 2—Basic cellular components of CNS

- 3—Neurons with round nucleus, prominent nucleolus, and nissl substance surronding

- 4—Large purkinje cells in the cerebellum

- 5—Neuromelanin

- 6—Astrocytes with GFAP stain

- 7—Astrocytes

- 8—Oligodendroglia

- 9—Oligodendroglia

- 10—Ependymal Cells
Have both epithelial + glial component
- 11—Choroid Plexus
Epithelial properties
- 12—Cerebrovascular territories

- 13—Global Cerebral Ischemia

- 14—Ischemic Stroke Signs

- 15—Ischemic stroke 12-24 hours

- 16—Ischemic stroke 12-24 hours

- 17—Ischemic stroke 24-48 hours

- 18—Ischemic stroke 24-48 hours

- 19—Ischemic stoke 2 days - 2 weeks

- 20—Ischemic stroke 2 days - 2 weeks

- 21—Ischemic stroke 3 weeks - months

- 22—ischemic stroke 3 weeks - months

- 23—Hemorrhagic stroke: 20%

- 24—Hemorrhagic stroke (20%)

- 25—Intraparenchymal hemorrhage

- 26—Intraparenchymal hemorrhage

- 27—types of intracranial hemorrhage

- 28—Epidural Hemorrhage
Trauma, lucid interval
- 29—Subdural Hemorrhage
Rupture of bridging veins
Trauma w/ old
- 30—Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Berry aneurysms, mb trauma
- 31—Arteriolosclerosis --> occlusion --> lacunar infarct
One of the two things hypertension causes
(medial ischemic thickening)
- 32—Charcot Bouchard syndrome
One of the two things hypertension causes
(Basal ganglia feeder vessels weakening = rupture = intraparenchymal hemorrhage)
- 33—Holes in the basal ganglia
Arise as a result of hypertension
(charcot bouchard syndrome)
- 34—Acute bacterial meningitis
Infection varies with Age
Neonates = E.Coli, Group B Strep
Infants = S. Pneumonia, H Influenza
Adolescents = Neisseria Meningitis
Elderly = S. Pneumonia, listeria
- 35—Acute Bacterial Meningitis
Causative Bacteria varies with age
Infants = S. Pneumonia, Group B
- 36—Charcot Bouchard Syndrome
One of two things hypertension causes
Weakening of basal ganglia walls by little microaneuryms--> vessel rupture --> intraparenchymal hemorrhage
- 37—Hole in the basal ganglia as a result of Charcot Bouchard Syndrome
One of the two things hypertension causes
Hypertension --> weakens walls of basal ganglia feeder vessels --> microinfarcts --> eventul intraparenchymal hemorrhage
- 38—Acute Bacterial Meningitis
Causative Bacteria vary with Age
Neonates = E.Coli, Group B strep
Infants = Strep Pneumonia, H. Influenza
Adolescents = Neisseria Meningitdis
Elderly = Strep Pneumonia, Listeria
- 39—Acute Bacterial Meningitis
Causative bacteria vary with age
Neonates = E.Coli, group B strep
Infants = Strep Pneumonia, H. Influenza (:))
Adolescents = Neisseria Meningitis
Elderly = S. Pneumonia, Listeria
- 40—Acute Viral Meningitis
Self limiting
Most commonly due to enteroviruses [echoviruses, coxsackie virus, nonparalytic polio]![Acute Viral Meningitis Self limiting Most commonly due to enteroviruses [echoviruses, coxsackie virus, nonparalytic polio]](https://examtimeassets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/media/image/39314720/desktop_96db204b-1402-4014-9074-9a3789220a0f.png)
- 41—Acute Viral Meningitis
Self limiting
Caused by enteroviruses [echovirus, coxsackie virus, nonparalytic poliomyelitis]
Microglia nodules = nuclei of microglia form nodules --> can see them!!!!![Acute Viral Meningitis Self limiting Caused by enteroviruses [echovirus, coxsackie virus, nonparalytic poliomyelitis] Microglia nodules =...](https://examtimeassets.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/media/image/39314725/desktop_2610e82b-d83d-49cb-a705-81a818f31e18.png)
- 42—Viral Encephalitis: HSV
Hemorrhagic temporal lobes, glassy nuclear inclusions
- 43—Viral Encephalitis = HSV
Bitemporal lobe hemorrhagic
Glassy nuclear inclusions
- 44—VIral Encephalitis: Rabies
Neari bodies in Purkinje cells
- 45—Viral Encephalitis: Measles
Chronic = Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis --> may emerge years later
Glassy inclusions like HSV, but multinucleated
- 46—Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML)
Myelinating disorder
Common in immunocompromised people (organ transplant, HIV)
JC virus --> PML
- 47—Abcess/Abscess Like Lesions
Bacterial Abscess = "normal" multifocal with neutrophils
- 48—Abscess/Abscess like lesions
Toxoplasmosis = encysted bradyzoite --> breaks out --> tachyzoite
- 49—Abscess/Abscess like lesions
Cryptococcus = Bubbly gross brain, space around blood vessels expands
India Ink stain
- 50—Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Chromosome 20, abnormal folding (now beta sheet)
Rapid dementia, spongiform encephalopathy, amyloid plaques
- 51—Contusion in the brain (bruise)
Damage to crests of gyri (brain surface) most common
- 52—Contusion (bruise in brain)
Commonly affects surface of gyri (crests)
But deep white matter contusions can occur
- 53—Cerebral Contusion
(Bruise)
Coup = bruise at site of impact
Counter-Coup = bruise on opposite site (larger, inferior frontal + temporal lobe)
- 54—Cerebral Contusion (brain bruise)

- 55—Cerebral Contusion (brain bruise)
Looks like petechial hemorrhage
- 56—Cerebral Contusion (brain bruise)
Petechial hemorrhage
"Chronic infarc with hemosiderin rust"
- 57—Cerebral Contusion (bruise)
Chronic infarc with hemosiderin rest
Looks like petechial hemorrhage on outside of brain, subarachnoid hemorrhages common
- 58—Contusion
Looks like petechial hemorrhage
- 59—Traumatic Axonal Injury
Blunt force/inertia
Common sites = Corpus callosum, dorsolateral brainstem, parasagittal cerebral white matter
- 60—Traumatic Axonal Injury
Blunt force/Inertia
Petechia = Capillaries rupture in same way as axons
- 61Traumatic Axonal InjuryDiffuse
Does not require direct impact
Requires rotational/angular acceleration --> sheer stress - 62Contusions and lacerationsLocalized
Brain impacting with skull
Coup vs. Countercoup - 63—Damage secondary to trauma
Edema
- 64—Consequences of Edema
Subfalcine herniation = less concerning
- 65—Consequences of Edema
Uncle/transtentorial herniation = push on brainstem, fatal
Tonsillar herniation = out through foramen magnum, push on lower brainstem, fatal
Central herniation = General edema, whole brain pushes down, pons hemorrhages
- 66—Consequences of Edema
Subfalcine hemorrhage = falx, least concerning
Central herniation = whole brain pushes down, general edema, pons hemorrhage
Transtentorial herniation = push on brainstem, fatal
Tonsillar hemorrhage = out through foramen magnum, push on lower brainstem, fatal
- 67Demyelinating DisordersThink Multiple Sclerosis
Usually acquired
Myelin damage with axon preservation - 68Multiple SclerosisDemyelinating disorder
Autoimmune = HLA-DR
W > M but no age predilection - 69Multiple SclerosisRelapsing and remitting (symptoms come and go, myelin, demyelin, myelin....)
Oligoclonal bands + plasma cells in CSF - 70Multiple SclerosisRisk increases 15 fold when relative affected
HLA DR haplotype - 71—Multiple Sclerosis
Cortex = Around the ventricles lesions
Optic tract lesions (vision problems)
- 72—Multiple Sclerosis
Glassy tan/gray lesions in brainstem
- 73—Multiple Sclerosis Active Plaque
Hypercellular, many macrophages, maybe astrocytes
Overall preservation of axons, myelin just breaking down
- 74—Multiple Sclerosis Active Plaque
Parenchymal + perivascular lymphocytes
Oligoclonal banding + plasma cells in CSF
- 75—Multiple Sclerosis Inactive Plaque (GLIOSIS)
Hypocellular, fewer macrophages
Loss of myelin = loss of oligodendrocytes
Prominent Gliosis = reactive astrocytes
Loss of axons
- 76—Multiple Sclerosis Inactive Plaques
Gliosis = Reactive Astrocytes
Loss of mylein - loss of oligodendroycte = loss of axons
Hypocellular, fewer macrophages + chronic inflammation
- 77Movement DisordersParkinsons (Hypo) + Huntingtons (Hyper)
- 78Dementia DisordersAlzheimers + Lewy Body Dementia
- 79Dementia OverviewNot a part of normal aging
Progressive loss of cognitive function independent of the state of attention
Causes = primary neurodegenerative diseases (LW + AD) but also infection, vascular, metabolic, etc. - 80—Alzheimer's Disease
Most common cause of dementia in the elderly
Incidence increases with age
Most causes sporadic (but tri 21 correlation)
- 81—Alzheimer's Disease
Brain shrinks, making ventricles look bigger
"Fake hydrocephalous"
Tangles with Tau protein + amyloid plaques
- 82—Alzheimer's Disease
Deposition of amyloid in blood vessels --> cerebral amyloid amylopathy --> lobar hemorrhage
- 83—Alzheimer's Disease
Most common reason for dementia in elderly
Mostly sporadic (tri 21 corr)
Fake hydrocephalus = brain shrinks, making the ventricles look larger
Amyloid plaques with Tau proteins
Deposition of amyloid in blood vessels --> cerebral amyloid amylopathy --> lobar hemorrhage
- 84—Alzheimer's Disease
Most common reason for dementia in the elderly
Mostly sporadic (tri 21 corrl)
Amyloid plaques + Tau Proteins
Amyloid plaques deposit in blood vessels --> amyloid amylopathy --> lobal hemorrhage
Brain shrinks, making ventricles look larger = Fake hydrocephalois
- 85Lewy Body DementiaProgressive decline + 2:
-Fluctuating cognition (lucid intervals, allie in notebook)
-Visual hallucinations
-Spontaneous motor features of parkinsonism
- 86—Lewy Body Dementia
Progressive congnitive decline + 2:
-Fluctuating cognition
-Visual hallucinations
-Motor features like parkinsons
- 87—Lewy bodies in lewy body dementia
in both cortex and brainstem
Lewy bodies have alpha synuclein, so do a stain for this
- 88—Lewy Body dementia
Loss of pigment in substantia nigra like parkinsons
Lewy bodies with alpha synnuclein
Progressive Cognitive Declines + 2:
-cognition fluctuation
-visual hallucinations
-motor problems like parkinsons
- 89—Clinically diagnosing lewy body dementia from parkinson's
Lewy body = Movement disorder + dementia same time
Parkinson's = Movement --> dementia (wait 5 years)
- 90Parkinson's Disease L-Dopa ResponsiveHypomovement disorder
Tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia
Autonomic + Cognitive Findings Uncommon
Most sporadic, no gender
Loss of pigmentation in substantia nigra
Lewy bodies in brainstem only - 91—Parkinson's Disease
Hypokinetic Disorder
Bradykinesia, Rigid, Tremor
Loss of pigment in substantia nigra
L Dopa Responsive
Lewy bodies in brainstem only
Sporadic, no gender etiology, incidence increases w/ age
- 92—Huntington's Disease
Hyperkinetic, Heritable!!
Autosomal dominant gene on chromosome 4p16 = protein huntingtin = CAG repeat expansion
Anticipating/progressive = more repeats with further generations, worse symptoms
Mean onset = 40
Loss of caudate, then putamen
Motor = chorea writhing movements
Eventually psychiatric syndomes = Irritability, depression, anxitety
- 93—Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Mean age of onset = 60
Slightly more in males (1.5:1)
Muscle atrophy + hyperreflexia
death within 5 years --> respiratory failure or bronchopneumonia
10-20% have frontal dementia
If familial (rare) problem with superoxide dismutase on chromosome 21
- 94—Amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis
Muscle atrophy and hyperreflexia
Age of onset is 60
Males slightly more common than females (1.5:1)
Death within 5 years commonly because of bronchopneumonia/respiratory failure
(10-20% have frontal dementia)
Anterior spinal root atrophy that is worse distally
if familial, problem with superoxide dismutase enzyme (chromosome 21)
- 95—Pilocytic Astrocytoma
WHO Grade 1
Kids: Posterior fossa + cerebellum
- 96—Diffuse Astrocytoma
WHO Grade 2
Hypercellularity + Atypia
- 97—Anaplastic Astrocytoma
WHO Grade 3
Mitotic figures
- 98—Glioblastoma
(Astrocytoma WHO grade 4)
Pseudopalisading necrosis = necrosis + endothelial cell proliferation
- 99—Glioblastoma
(Astrocytoma WHO grade 4)
Pseudopalisading necrosis + vascular proliferation
- 100—Oligodendroglioma
WHO Grade 2
Chicken egg = thin capillary vasculature, perinuclear halo, round nuclei
- 101—Oligodendroglioma
WHO grade 2
Chicken egg
- 102—Anaplastic oligodendroglioma (chicken egg)
WHO grade 3
Mitotic increase, necrosis, endothelial proliferation
- 103—Anaplastic oligodendroglioma (chicken egg)
WHO Grade 3
- 104—Ependymoma WHO grade 2
Happens at ventricular surface (where ependymal cells line, supratentorial, posterior fossa, spinal....)
Perivascular rosettes (internal vessels) with the occasional endymomal canal
- 105—Ependymoma WHO grade 2
Perivascular rosettes (internal vessels) with the occasional endymomal canal
- 106—Ependymoma Grade 2
Perivascular rosette with the occasional ependymoma canal
- 107—Ependymoma Grade 2
Perivascular pseudorosettes with the occasional ependymoma canal
- 108—Ependymoma
WHO Grade 3
- 109—Medulloblastoma
70% under 16
75% arise in vermis
By definition, GRADE 4
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distinguish from ependymoma because rosettes don't have vessel in middle
- 110—Medulloblastoma
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70% under 16
75% in vermis
By definition GRADE 4
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Different from ependymoma because rosettes dont have vessel in the middle
- 111—Meningioma = Dura tumor
dural tail
Push brain parenchyma away
psomma bodies
- 112—Meningioma = Dura Tumor
Psomma bodies
Most grade 1 = if you have a brain tumor, this is the one you want to have!
- 113—Craniopharyngioma
"machine oil"
"cholesterol crystals"
Before age 20 :(
Supra sellar = Above the sella turcica
- 114—Metastatic Tumors
Well circumscribed, multifocal (multiple nodules), gray:white junction
- 115—Metastatic tumors
Well circumscribed, multifocal (multiple), gray:white junction
- 116—Metastatic tumors
Most common primary tumor sites = Lungs, breast, colon
- 117—Metastatic tumor
Most common hemorrhagic metastasis = Renal, melanoma, choriocarcinoma
- 118—


- 119—Schwannoma peripheral nerve tumor (WHO grade 1)
Verochay bodies

- 120—Neurofibroma
WHO grade 1
Carrots