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Bipolar Disorder: Pathogenesis and Clinical Findings
 • Disruption of emotional homeostasis
 • Oscillation between mood states
variability in disease ... mood - Primary treatment ... MoodDisorders #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology ... #Signs #Symptoms ... #Psychiatry
Classification of Diabetes Insipidus

Central or neurogenic diabetes insipidus:
 - Congenital - Structural malformations affecting the hypothalamus
Histiocytosis and ... Treatment is aimed ... at the psychiatric ... disease. ... Classification #Types #Nephrology
Multiple Sclerosis - Summary

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune-mediated neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system
neurodegenerative disease ... Signs and symptoms ... Multiple Sclerosis Treatment ... objective evidence of neurologic ... #treatment #MS
CNS Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)

Clinical Manifestations: Demyelinating Syndrome, Headache, Movement disorders, Seizure disorders, Aseptic
Cerebrovascular Disease ... , PRES Pathophysiology ... Puncture, EEG Treatment ... Erythematosus #SLE #CNS #neurology ... diagnosis #management #treatment
Chagas Disease - American Trypanosomiasis - Diagnosis and Management Summary
Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) is an infectious
Romana's sign ... the absence of treatment ... Indeterminate form (No signs ... symptoms, positive serology ... q12h)x 60 days Treatment
Behçet's Syndrome
Systemic disease associated with inflammation of multiple organs, small-vessel vasculitis and large-vessel vasculopathy
Epidemiology:
 • Young
Syndrome Systemic disease ... skin injury) • Neurologic ... Disease: Lesions ... Treatment: • Oral ... diagnosis #management #signs
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Summary
ALS: combination of the clinical examination finding of amyotrophy with the pathologic
lateral sclerosis Pathophysiology ... Presentation: - Disease ... course of the disease ... diagnosis column Treatment ... Lateral #Sclerosis #neurology
Pheochromocytoma - Diagnosis and Management Summary
10 percent rule = 10% of pheochromocytomas are extra-adrenal, multiple, bilateral,
Signs: 50% pts, ... signs: • Orthostatic ... leukocytosis, psychiatric ... disease: Management ... • Treatment of
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome (PRES) Overview

Clinico-Radiological Syndrome, characterized by:
 • Headache
 • Seizures
 • Altered mental
may precede the neurologic ... Shock, Autoimmune disease ... Etiology: • Pathophysiology ... epilepticus Treatment ... underlying cause • Treatment
Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS) - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Epidemiology:
 • Prevalence: 1-2 cases per million -
Person Syndrome Pathophysiology ... poisoning, Parkinson's disease ... Person Syndrome Treatment ... Baclofen • Severe Disease ... #neurology