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MASTER SUMMARY TABLE - All 9 Pages at a Glance
Here's a condensed cheat sheet to help you remember everything:
🧠 SEIZURES QUICK REFERENCE
| Type | Consciousness | Duration | Key Feature |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focal aware | INTACT | Variable | Jerking/sensory one side |
| Focal impaired | IMPAIRED | Variable | Automatisms (lip smacking) |
| Absence (petit mal) | Brief lapse | ~10 sec | Blank stare, 3Hz EEG, no postictal |
| Myoclonic | INTACT | Seconds | Quick jerks bilaterally |
| Tonic-clonic (grand mal) | LOST | 1-5 min | Stiffening → shaking, tongue bite, incontinence |
| Tonic | LOST | Seconds | Only stiffening, falls |
| Atonic | LOST | Seconds | Drop attacks, mistaken for fainting |
🤕 HEADACHES QUICK REFERENCE
| Type | Location | Duration | Key Feature | Acute Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tension | Bilateral | 4-6 hrs | Bandlike, no nausea | NSAIDs |
| Migraine | Unilateral | 4-72 hrs | POUND mnemonic, aura | Triptans, NSAIDs |
| Cluster | Unilateral (eye) | 15min-3hr | Excruciating + autonomic + Horner | O₂, sumatriptan |
| Trigeminal neuralgia | Face (V2/V3) | Seconds | Lightning, triggered by touch | Carbamazepine |
🕺 MOVEMENT DISORDERS QUICK REFERENCE
| Disorder | Movement Type | Location of Lesion |
|---|---|---|
| Chorea | Rapid, dance-like | Basal ganglia |
| Athetosis | Slow, writhing | Basal ganglia |
| Hemiballismus | Wild flailing, one side | Contralateral subthalamic nucleus |
| Essential tremor | Action/postural | Cerebellar circuits |
| Resting tremor | Pill-rolling at rest | Substantia nigra (Parkinson's) |
| Intention tremor | Worsens near target | Cerebellum |
| Dystonia | Sustained posture | Basal ganglia |
🧓 DEMENTIAS QUICK REFERENCE
| Disease | Key Features | Pathology |
|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's | Memory first, gradual | Amyloid plaques + tau tangles |
| Parkinson's | TRAP symptoms | Lewy bodies (α-synuclein) |
| Huntington's | CAG repeat, age 30-50, chorea + psych | Loss of GABAergic neurons in caudate |
| Lewy Body | haLEWYcinations, fluctuating, REM sleep disorder | Cortical Lewy bodies |
| Frontotemporal | Personality first, language | Pick bodies / TDP-43 |
| Vascular | Step-wise decline | Multiple infarcts |
| CJD | Rapid (weeks), myoclonus | Prions, spongiform brain |
🧬 NEUROCUTANEOUS DISORDERS QUICK REFERENCE
| Disease | Chromosome | Skin Sign | Brain Sign |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sturge-Weber | GNAQ (somatic) | Port-wine stain (face) | Leptomeningeal angioma, seizures |
| Tuberous Sclerosis | 9 (TSC1) or 16 (TSC2) | Ash-leaf spots, angiofibromas | Cortical tubers, seizures |
| NF1 | 17 | Café-au-lait, neurofibromas | Lisch nodules, optic glioma |
| NF2 | 22 | Minimal skin | Bilateral acoustic neuromas |
| VHL | 3 | None typical | Hemangioblastomas + RCC + pheo |
💡 TOP EXAM MNEMONICS
- TRAP = Tremor, Rigidity, Akinesia, Postural instability (Parkinson's)
- POUND = Pulsatile, One-day, Unilateral, Nausea, Disabling (Migraine)
- WWW = Wobbly, Wacky, Wet (Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus)
- CICLOPSS = Café-au-lait, Intellectual disability, Cutaneous neurofibromas, Lisch nodules, Optic glioma, Pheochromocytoma, Seizures, Sphenoid dysplasia (NF1)
- HARP = Hemangioblastomas, Angiomatosis, Renal cell carcinoma, Pheochromocytoma (VHL)
- PARK = at REST (resting tremor = Parkinson's)
- haLEWYcinations = Lewy body dementia
- 4 letters in "hunt" = chromosome 4 = Huntington's
- VHL = 3 letters = chromosome 3 = RCC (3 letters)
- NF1 on chromosome 17 = 17 letters in "von Recklinghausen"
- "Female TOAd" = risk factors for idiopathic intracranial hypertension
That's ALL 9 pages - every single line explained in full detail with analogies, mechanisms, and clinical reasoning. This is one of the most information-dense sections in all of neurology pathology, and you now have a complete understanding of each concept. Feel free to ask me to go DEEPER on any specific topic, or ask me to create flashcards, practice MCQs, or a comparison table for any section!
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