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XI. Disorders of higher cognitive functions
A. Define and assess: dementia, delirium, amnesia, confabulation,hallucination.
B. Define normal-pressure hydrocephalus.
C. Define the anatomical basis for aphasia and dysarthria.
D. Differentiate the aphasias on the basis of ability to produce speech, comprehension, naming, repetition.
XII. Disorders of altered consciousness
A. Define hypnoid and non-hypnoid unconsciousness.
B. The anatomic basis of consciousness.
C. Assess the comatose patient, evaluation and treatment.
D. Localize the following: decorticate and decerebrate rigidity, conjugately deviated eyes, pathologic
respiration, pinpoint pupils, anisocoria, intact versus absent oculocephalic response, intact versus
disconjugate ice water calorics.
E. Diagnosis and management of increased intracranial pressure (ICP).
F. Symptoms of uncal and other herniations.
XIII. Headaches and facial pain
A. Clinical features of migraine, cluster headache, tension headache, trigeminal neuralgia,”organic”
headache.
B. Treatment for common headaches.
XIV. Brain tumors
A. Clinical presentation and diagnosis of primary brain tumors.
B. Metastatic tumors to the brain in adults.
XV. Infections
A. Bacterial meningitis, viral meningitis, encephalitis including herpes simplex, chronic meningitis, brain
abscess. Neurosyphilis. Lyme disease.
B. HIV and the nervous system.
XVI. Spinal cord disorders
A. Neurological symptoms caused by compression, transsection and hemisection of the spinal cord.
B. Autonomic deficits caused by spinal cord lesion.
C. Clinical presentation of vitamin B12 deficiency.
XVII. Peripheral nervous system disorders
A. Clinical syndromes of neuropathy, neuromuscular junction disorders, myopathy.
B. Describe: radicular pain, radiculopathy, mononeuropathy, meralgia paresthetica, mononeurosis multiplex,
polyneuropathy, paresthesia, fasciculation.
C. Clinical findings in root lesions at C5, L4, L5, S1.
D. Herniated nucleus pulposus.
E. The tunnel syndromes.
F. The acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barre synd.)
G. The motoneuron disease.
H. The myasthenia gravis.
I. Duchenne muscular dystrophy, myotonic dystrophy, polymyositis.
XVIII. Alcohol related disorders
A. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, dementia.
B. Delirium tremens, alcohol withdrawal seizure.
C. Cerebellar degeneration, peripheral polyneuropathy.