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Sleep spindles are first seen at what gestational age (GA)?
A 53-year-old Spanish-speaking woman comes to your clinic for the first time with complaints of memory loss. She is accompanied by her 16-year-old daughter who is bilingual. You quickly realize that the patient does not have a strong grasp of the English language. After proposing to use a professional translator the daughter says that she feels comfortable translating for her mother. What is the most appropriate next step?
A 9-year-old boy presents with his mother for 18 months of multiple complaints. He reports having continuous thoughts of needing to wash his hands and building anxiety until he can perform the action. He spends more than an hour in total every day washing his hands. He also has stereotyped movements on exam with head turning and shoulder shrug, and will sometimes shout random words. Lab and imaging workup is negative. Which of the following medications, paired with cognitive behavioral therapy, is most indicated?
A 56-year-old man with idiopathic Parkinson’s disease presents to the emergency department for hypertensive emergency and tachycardia. You suspect that this may be an adverse effect related to one of his medications. Patients that are prescribed MAO-B Inhibitors should be counseled on avoiding which of the following?
Identify the pathologic finding marked by the red arrow.
An 8-year-old child with a past medical history of tuberous sclerosis presents urgently to the emergency room with lethargy. Funduscopic examination shows blurring of the optic discs. An MRI is performed and shown below. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the patient’s symptoms?
A 45-year-old man comes into the ED complaining of a severe headache. A spinal tap shows xanthochromia. The patient is treated immediately and spends the next two weeks in the neurocritical care unit. On day nine of his stay, his speech becomes slurred and the neurologist notices that the left side of his face is drooping. What is the class of drugs that could have potentially prevented these findings?
A 32-year-old female presents to the emergency room after a motor vehicle accident as a restrained back seat passenger. Her only complaint on arrival is back pain. She has bruises across her abdomen and chest and a normal neurological exam. Thoracic spine imaging was completed and is shown below. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
Which of the anti-seizure medications (ASMs) listed operates under zero-order kinetics at high doses?
You are caring for a 50-year-old with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Which of the following disorders is most likely to also develop in patients with ALS?
You are caring for a 1-month-old infant in the neonatal ICU with abnormal movements since birth. The baby is seen writhing in bed, with her arms and legs and axial trunk moving in a snake-like pattern. A CT head is done and shows bilateral cystic lesions on the basal ganglia. Toxic levels of which of the following are most likely at play?
Which of the following features on EMG is suggestive of chronic denervation?
A 66-year-old patient with bradykinesia, hypomimia, dementia, postural instability, cogwheel rigidity, shuffling gait, and resting tremor presents to your clinic. He has been on carbidopa/levodopa for several years, which has helped, but now his wearing-off phenomenon is becoming more frequent despite attempted medication adjustments. He asks about deep brain stimulation (DBS).
Which of the following is a contraindication for DBS in Parkinson’s disease (PD)?
A focal seizure must involve how much cortex in order to be appreciated with scalp EEG recording?
A 15-year-old male comes to the clinic with his parents as they complain he has periods of the year where he will sleep up to 20 hours a day for multiple days in a row, as well as uninhibited eating and inappropriate sexual behavior. These episodes last for up to around 2 weeks at most, and then he is behaviorally back to normal in between episodes. Which is the most likely diagnosis?
A 5-year-old boy is seen in the clinic for seizures, vision loss, and progressive loss of milestones. MRI of the brain shows a posterior predominant leukodystrophy. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
A 50-year-old male is admitted for 3 months of progressive memory loss, visual hallucinations, and myoclonus. Examination revealed myoclonic jerks. Which of the following tests is the most specific for this disease?
A 47-year-old female presents to the clinic with the chief complaint of slowly progressive proximal muscle weakness. Electromyography showed short duration, low amplitude motor unit action potentials. A muscle biopsy was performed and shown below. A diagnosis is made and the patient is started on a therapeutic agent. What is the most likely medication initiated?
What is the mechanism of action of apixaban?
A 68-year-old woman presents to the emergency room with a 3-month history of worsening cognition, ataxia, dysphagia, and periodic episodes of brachial dystonia, and facial grimacing. A continuous EEG was performed but no EEG correlate was seen with the abnormal movements. An autoimmune process is suspected. Which of the following serum autoantibodies is most likely present?
A four-day-old, full-term male with an uncomplicated vaginal delivery is brought urgently by his mother to the clinic after an episode concerning for possible seizure. His mother states that this morning when she accidentally dropped a pile of dishes on the floor, the child “tensed up”. She states that both his upper and lower limbs became rigid and he had violent jerking movements of all limbs for approximately 40 seconds. This patient’s condition is most likely due to a mutation in which of the following genes?
A patient presents with double vision that improves when tilting their head to the right. A lesion is most likely to be present in which of the following cranial nerves?
Parents bring their 3-year-old son to the clinic for difficulty walking. On examination, the patient has a waddling gait and enlarged calf muscles. When rising from a seated position he has to rely extensively on his arms to stand up. Which of the following is the most likely inheritance pattern of the genetic disorder affecting this patient?
A 63-year-old female presents to the office, accompanied by her husband who has become increasingly worried about his wife’s ability to perform tasks at home. He states that for the past three months she has not been able to tie her shoes, and fumbles with the shoelaces in her hands. Additionally, within the past month, she has not been able to brush her teeth, and simply holds the toothbrush in her hand, without moving. Lastly, her husband has noticed that the patient moves slower on their morning walks together, and her arms and legs seem more tight and rigid. A brain MRI is ordered which shows asymmetric atrophy of the superior parietal lobule. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
Per the American Academy of Neurology guidelines, which of the following diagnostic tests should be included in the routine evaluation of the demented patient?
A 31-year-old man presents after being found down at the scene of an armed robbery. On physical examination, there is lower extremity weakness and loss of proprioception and vibration on the right side, as well as loss of pain and temperature sensation on the left leg. His sagittal CT spine is shown below. Which is the most likely condition suffered by this man?
Which of the following medications requires blood pressure and pulse monitoring for at least 6 hours after the first dose to assess for first-dose-related bradycardia?
Which of the following medications, when taken alongside statin therapy, increases the risk of statin-induced myopathy?
Which of the following botulinum serotypes cleaves synaptosomal-associated protein (SNAP)-25.
Which of the following arteries provides the prominent supply to the posterior limb of the internal capsule?
A 45-year-old male presents with left-sided neck and shoulder pain. On examination, there is right arm abduction weakness and decreased bicep and brachioradialis reflexes. An EMG was ordered and showed fibrillations of the deltoids, supraspinatus, and biceps muscles. EMG testing of the triceps, first dorsal interosseous, abductor policies brevis, and rhomboid muscles were normal. These findings are most likely due to radiculopathy of which of the following nerve roots?
Which of the following is not one of the absolute exclusionary criteria for tissue plasminogen activator (tPA)?
A 32-year-old female who is currently 39 weeks pregnant was brought to the emergency room after experiencing a first-time seizure. Neurological examination is non-focal except for mild somnolence and decreased visual acuity in both eyes. Vitals signs were normal except for a blood pressure of 192/104 mmHg. An MRI was performed and shown below. Which of the following is the most appropriate step in management?
A patient presents to the emergency room after experiencing a syncopal event. On history, he endorses unilateral, paroxysmal pain in the tonsil, tongue, and ear triggered by swallowing. What is the most likely diagnosis?
A 67-year-old woman suffers from sustained involuntary contraction causing her head to be forcibly turned to the right and significant discomfort. On exam, her left sternocleidomastoid is significantly hypertrophied. She receives treatment with Botulism Toxin A. Subtype A of botulism toxin acts to reduce synaptic action of acetylcholine by what mechanism?
Mutations in the progranulin protein (gene PGRN) can serve as a biomarker for the risk of which of the following diseases?
Which is the following findings on EMG is suggestive of a chronic neurogenic lesion?
A 12-day-old male is brought to the pediatrician by his mother with a two-day history of rash. The child was born full-term to a G2P2 mother with good APGAR scores. On physical exam, the pediatrician notes that the child has a pink, crusting, maculopapular rash over his buttocks, thighs, and soles of his feet. She states that a week after his birth he had the “sniffles” and a lot of white discharge from his nose. On exam, there is hepatomegaly and generalized lymphadenopathy. Which of the following is the most likely cause of the patient’s symptoms?
A 4-year-old boy is brought to the pediatric neurology clinic with 4 months history of progressive dysarthria, ataxia, and abnormal limb movements. His mother says that the patient’s right side of the mouth seems to be pulled to the right and his left arm always seems to be pulled up towards his chest. An MRI was performed and shown below. What is the likely diagnosis?
Which of the following is the mechanism of action of clonidine?