Ace The Neurology Exam

In 1942, Seddon classified the severity of peripheral nerve injury (PNI) in three types; neurapraxia, axonotmesis, or neurotmesis.

Carotidynia, also known as Fay syndrome or TIPIC syndrome, is a very rare vascular disorder presenting with unilateral neck and facial pain. C ...

Thallium, a chemical element with the symbol TI, has an atomic number 81 of the periodic table. Thallium sulfate was once used as an ant ...

The sympathetic chain is a ganglionated chain present bilaterally extending from the base of the skull to the coccyx. It divides into cervical, tho ...

The mental status examination is the psychiatrist’s version of the physical examination. In 1918, Adolf Meyer developed an outline for a stan ...

The term amaurosis fugax is often used interchangeably to describe transient visual loss (TVL). However, it is employed widely in medicine to refer ...

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is an uncommon neurological disorder that affects movement, gait, balance, speech, swallowing, vision, eye mov ...

The quadrangular (or quadrilateral) space (QS) is named based on the shape of its anatomic boundaries.  Located along the posterolateral ...

A subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) results from medical aneurysmal rupture or traumatic head injury. ...

An epidural blood patch (EBP) is a procedure in which a small volume of autologous blood is injected into a patient's epidural space to stop a leak ...

Neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the development of multiple tumors involving the central ner ...

Despite the plethora of literature describing the traditional 12 pairs of cranial nerves, very little has been published on the seemingly innocuous ...

Constantin Alexander von Economo, a psychiatrist and neurologist, reported in 1917 about encephalitis lethargica in front of the Vienna Psychiatric ...

Dementia is the colloquial term that denotes the nosological distinction of major neurocognitive disorder in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5 ed ...

The term mushroom refers to the fungal fruiting body. Anatomically, the prototypical mushroom comprises the stem and a cap with gills on the unders ...

According to the Committee on Classification of the World Federation of Neurology, chorea is defined as "a state of excessive, spontaneous movement ...

Pernicious anemia (PA) is megaloblastic anemia that results from a deficiency in cobalamin (vitamin B12) due to a deficit of intrinsic factor (IF). ...

Traditionally, carotid endarterectomy (CEA) has been the primary method of treating high-grade asymptomatic and symptomatic carotid artery stenosis ...