Neurological Disorders Guided Notes
1. Review the normal anatomy and physiology of the neurological disorders.
2. What determines what the local effects of a neurological problem will be?
3. What is meant by supratentorial lesion?
4. What is meant by infratentorial lesion?
5. What are different levels of consciousness?
6. How is level of consciousness determined?
7. What sensory deficits might someone experience?
8. What is hemianopia, and what causes it?
9. What is meant by aphasia?
10. What is expressive language disorder, and what causes it?
11. What is receptive language disorder, and what causes it?
12. What is global language disorder, and what causes it?
13. What is dysarthria?
14. What is agraphia?
15. What is alexia?
16. What is agnosia?
17. Increased intracranial pressure
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms (Early and Late) Specific Lab Values
18. What happens during a herniation in the brain?
19. Brain tumors
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
20. Transient ischemic attacks
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
21. CVA
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
22. Cerebral aneurysms
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
23. Meningitis
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
24. Brain abscess
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
25. How can herpes zoster impact the neurological system?
26. What is post-polio syndrome?
27. What is Reye’s syndrome?
28. Guillain-Barré
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
29. Describe each of the different types of head injuries.
30. What is the difference between primary and second damage in head injuries?
31. What are signs and symptoms of brain injury following head trauma?
32. What are the different types of spinal cord injury?
33. What determines the signs and symptoms that happen following a spinal cord injury?
34. What are the different stages of spinal cord injury? What symptoms occur at each stage?
35. Describe what happens in autonomic dysreflexia?
36. Hydrocephalus
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
37. Spina bifida
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
38. Cerebral palsy
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
39. What are the different types of cerebral palsy? Where do they occur? What are their effects?
40. What are the different types of seizures and how do they present?
41. What is occurring in the brain during a seizure?
42. Multiple sclerosis
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
43. Parkinson’s disease
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
44. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
45. Myasthenia gravis
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
46. Huntington’s disease
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Eye and Ear Disorders Guided Notes
1. What is hyperopia?
2. What is presbyopia?
3. What is astigmatism?
4. What is strabismus?
5. What is nystagmus?
6. What is diplopia?
7. What is a stye?
8. What is conjunctivitis?
9. What are the different types of conjunctivitis? What are the symptoms of each type?
10. Trachoma
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms
11. Keratitis
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms
12. Open-angle glaucoma
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms
13. Closed-angle glaucoma
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms
14. Cataracts
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms
15. Detached retina
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms
16. Macular degeneration
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
17. What are ways in which hearing loss can occur?
18. Otitis media
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
19. Otitis externa
Describe It Pathophysiology of It Risk Factors Signs and Symptoms Specific Lab Values
20. What is otosclerosis, and how does it present?
21. What is Ménière’s syndrome, and how does it present?
Laboratory Studies
Test Name/ Level Being Measured What Does It Test in Layman’s Terms? Normal Range What Do Abnormal Results Indicate? (Include Both Low and High When Applicable)
Lumbar puncture
Diagnostic Tests
Test Name Test Description What Do the Findings Mean?
EEG
