Quiz 07/20/2022 (2)

A 42-year-old male presents as a trauma for a large motor vehicle accident. He is comatose, intubated but not sedated, and admitted to the trauma ICU. His brain imaging shows diffuse axonal damage. On examination, his pupils are reactive equally and corneal reflexes are intact, but otherwise, he has no motor response to pain, upgoing plantar reflexes bilaterally. The family asks if the patient is “brain dead”. Which of the following is not part of the confirmatory criteria on the standard brain death exam?

Narcolepsy is associated with which of the following HLA alleles?

Which of the following medications is the first-line treatment for trigeminal neuralgia?

Axial T2 (left) and T1 (right) brain MRI images of a 3-month-old with a history of seizures and developmental delay are displayed below. Which of the following is the most likely cause for the pathology shown?

An 11-year-old girl has a neurosurgical resection of a brain mass. You are consulted post-op day 2 due to speech decline progressing to complete mutism. She does not have any weakness on exam. What type of tumor was most likely resected?