Bio 212 Pre lecture Quiz 11 Somatosensory pain motor dysfunction 1 Describe trigeminal neuralgia Most common and severe neuralgia characterized by recurring sudden onset of sharp stabbing pains without numbness in one or more nerve branches of cranial nerve five 2 Define migraine headache cluster headache chronic daily headaches Migraine pulsatile throbbing unilateral headache that typically lasts 1 2 days and is aggravated by routine physical activity Cluster rapid onset headache lasting 15mins 2hrs causing pain behind eyes and occurs in clusters over weeks or months followed by a long headache free remission period Chronic Daily headaches that occur 15 days or more a month for more than 3 months with characteristics of a migraine 3 Describe Duchene s Muscular Dystrophy Inherited as a recessive single gene defect on X chromosome and is transmitted from mother to male offspring The pathologic changes in skeletal muscle fibers are slightly larger and darker fibers are packed with macrophages 4 What are etiologies for myasthenia gravis Antibody mediated loss of acetylcholine receptors in the neuromuscular junction 5 What is the difference between mono and polyneuropathies Mono usually caused by localized conditions like trauma compression or infection that affect a single spinal nerve Poly involves demyelination or axonal degeneration of multiple peripheral nerves that leads to symmetric sensory motor or mixed sensorimotor dificits 6 What are the typical manifestations associated with Parkinson s Disease Tremor rigidity and bradykinesia cognitive dysfunction 7 What is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Neurological disorder that selectively affects motor neurons in anterior horn cells of spinal cord motor nuclei of the brain stem and UMNs of cerebral cortex causing loss of nerve fibers in lateral columns of white matter in spinal cord imparting a firmness to CNS tissue
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