A 28-year-old woman at 19 weeks of pregnancy complains of acute onset of numbness of the right cheek and drooping of the right face that occurred over 1 hour. She denies trauma to the head. On examination, the patient has difficulty closing her right eyelid, and her right nasolabial fold is smoother than on the left. She also is drooling from the right side of her mouth. The remainder of the neurological examination is normal. What is the anatomical mechanism for this condition?

A cranitomy for biopsy was scheduled and the neurosurgeon advised the staff that patient was being assessd for symptoms of ataxia relatively sudden of dementia.. what condition or disease process might the neurosurgeon suspect based on patient historia as given?

What is being attacked in Guillain-Barré syndrome? Relate the damage caused during this condition to the clinical manifestations evident in an affected person

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What defects might be produced by a bilateral lesion of the inferotemporal region of the cerebral cortex?

21. Jeremy C. had a stroke in his second year of law school at age 24. He can remember everything up to the day of his stroke, and almost nothing since it. Jeremy is suffering from _______________________.

This image shows the pathology associated with a chronic infective disease of the sensory afferents at the level of the L4 lumbar spinal cord. State three different signs and/or symptoms that the person would present with.

These tumors cause hydrocephalus and increased intracranial pressure by blocking CSF pathways and by oversecreting CSF. They affect mostly children and young adults and have a papillary basic structure. They are seen in Aicardi syndrome characterized by agenesis of the corpus callosum, chorioretinal lacunae, and infantile spasms.   a Ependymoma   b Ganglioglioma   c Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma   d Choroid plexus papilloma

A 35-year-old woman complains of a 2-month history of hoarseness of her voice and some choking while drinking liquids. She denies viral illnesses. She underwent surgery for a cold nodule of the thyroid gland 9 weeks ago. Her only medication is acetaminophen with codeine.   What the  functional components and different  branches of the Vagus nerve (cranial nerve X).

A 15-year-old girl complains of stress headaches. For the last few years, about one time a week, she develops a mild left-sided neck tightness that, after several hours, can spread to the left temporal area with moderate intensity and of a pounding quality. There is light and noise sensitivity and, sometimes, nausea. The headaches last about 8 hours and are minimally reduced by ibuprofen or sleep. The headaches often occur in the late afternoon as she comes home from school.   a migraine   b tension-type headache   c brain tumor headache   d temporal arteritis