Quiz 07/07/2022

Paraphasic and semantic errors in speech can occur secondary to a lesion in which of the following regions?

Which of the following occurs at point “4” on this diagram of an action potential?

Identify the structures labeled in the image below:

A 65-year-old male comes into the office with his wife for follow-up after a recent hospitalization for HSV encephalitis.  The wife says before his hospitalization, he used to be a quiet, shy man but recently has been making sexually inappropriate remarks to women at the park. The patient also has an increase in appetite and an urge to touch everything at the grocery store. Based on his cognitive deficits, which of the following areas of the brain is likely affected?

A 77-year-old male presents with a 1-year history of worsening bradykinesia, recurrent falls, and a shuffling gait. Past medical history is significant for REM-sleep behavior disorder and diet-controlled hypertension. Neurologic examination reveals a tremor at rest that improves with movement, along with bilateral upper-limb spasticity. Impaired dopaminergic signaling is most likely to be found in which of the following locations?

Which of the following blood vessels that supply the thalamus is the only one to branch off of the posterior communicating artery (PCOM) instead of the posterior cerebral artery (PCA)?

Which of the following can not cross the blood-brain barrier via channel-mediated transport?

What is the anatomical structure marked by the blue arrow?

While on the consult service you are called to see a patient from the surgical ICU whose hospital course has been complicated by a prolonged episode of ventricular tachycardia and hypoperfusion. After a return to spontaneous circulation, an MRI is performed due to concerns for ischemic stroke. MRI shows bilateral parietal-occipital hyperintensities on diffusion-weighted imaging consistent with watershed infarcts. Once he recovers from his cardiac event, what neurologic symptoms would you expect based on the MRI findings?

A 56-year-old right-handed man is brought to the emergency room for new-onset aphasia. On exam, he cannot write, perform simple calculations, name his own fingers, and cannot distinguish with accuracy between his right and left sides. A lesion in which area can explain his symptoms?

A 75-year-old female with a past medical history of atrial fibrillation and hypertension presents to the ER with garbled speech. She seems unaware that her speech is nonsensical. On physical exam, she is unable to follow verbal commands but can understand visual cues. An ischemic injury is suspected. If this is true, a brain MRI would show which of the following areas of the brain is/are affected?

Which of the following arteries supplying the thalamus provides supply to the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN)?

Which of the findings are most likely to be found on examination in a patient with the lesion appreciated in the image below?

A 65-year-old male with a past medical history of diabetes, hypertension, and a 40-pack-year smoking history comes into the ED with an acute onset of ataxia, left facial numbness, right arm, and leg numbness, and dizziness. He also has intractable hiccups. A CTA angiogram shows the cause of the patient’s symptoms. Based on the clinical exam, which of the following arteries is occluded?

An 87-year-old male presents with a 2-year history of worsening cognitive decline and speech difficulties. Brain MRI reveals multiple chronic cerebral infarcts. The neurological exam reveals adequate comprehension and fluency but naming was impaired. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Socially inappropriate behavior, disinhibition, echopraxia, and utilization behavior are typically seen in which of the following?

Which of the following areas, if selectively lesioned, would cause an error with voluntary vertical saccades with spared horizontal saccades and sparred occulocephalic vertical reflex?

Which of the following is not part of Gerstmann’s syndrome?

What is the anatomical structure labeled “C” below?

An 80-year-old woman with uncontrolled HTN presents to the ED with symptoms upon awakening of left hemi-sensory loss, last seen well 8 hours prior. MRI is done and shows a lateral thalamic lacunar stroke. The small branch affected in this lacune is most often a branch of which major artery?

A 65-year-old female presents with an abrupt onset of akinetic mutism, lack of motivation, apathy, bilateral leg weakness, and incontinence. A lesion to which of the following vascular territories could explain her symptoms?

Which of the following symptoms can be seen with MCA-PCA watershed infarcts?

Immunohistochemical staining with GFAP is particularly useful in identifying which of the following cell types?

A 45-year-old man presents to the clinic with a disc of the following MRI. Which symptom is the patient likely experiencing?

A 32-year-old obese and pregnant female in her third trimester presents to the clinic with pain and tingling of the lateral thigh with occasional aching in the groin. It is worsened by moving to a standing or sitting position and by wearing tight underwear. She has numbness on the right anterolateral thigh up to the level of the hip. The strength exam is normal. Which nerve is likely affected?