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Effects on body weight of various classes of type-2 diabetes medications.
 - Metformin - Weight Loss
Thiazolidinediones - Weight Gain ... Sulfonylureas - Weight Gain ... Insulin - Weight Gain ... weightloss #weightgain #comparison ... #pharmacology #
Adverse Effects of Antipsychotic Medications - Comparison Table

First Generation: chlopromazine, haloperidol, fluphenazine 
Second Generation: aripirazole, asenapine,
Medications - Comparison ... Dyslipidemia, Weight Gain ... Adverse #Psychiatry #Pharmacology ... #Profiles #Comparison
Anticonvulsants as Mood Stabilizers: Mechanism and Side-effect
Examples: Valproate, Carbamazepine, Lamotrigine
 • Mild anticholinergic effect -> Drowsiness
Dose-dependent tremor, ataxia ... dizziness, diplopia, ataxia ... pruritus, weight gain ... Pathophysiology #Psychiatry #Pharmacology
Wernicke's Encephalopathy vs Korsakoff Syndrome - Thiamine Deficiency

Wernicke's encephalopathy is a neurological condition due to longstanding
of confusion, ataxia ... (broad-based gait ... Syndrome #diagnosis #comparison
Side Effects of Atypical and Typical Antipsychotics - Comparison Table
Atypical antipsychotics: Risperidone, Quetiapine, Olanzapine, Amisulpride, Ziprasidone
Antipsychotics - Comparison ... dyslipidaemia, weight gain ... Adverse #Profiles #Comparison ... Table #Psychiatry #Pharmacology
Micronutrient Deficiencies After Gastric Bypass
Fat-Soluble Vitamins:
 • Vitamin A - Night/complete blindness, xeropthalmia (pathologic dryness of
oculomotor dysfunction, gait ... ataxia), Korsakoff ... sensory neuropathy, ataxia ... nutrition #table #differential
Causes of Gait Disturbance - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Sporadic
 • Vascular
 • Infection
 • Toxic
 • Nutrition
Causes of Gait Disturbance ... - Differential ... • Friedrich's Ataxia ... Niemann-Pick Disease #Gait ... #Disturbance #Differential
Phosphate Binders - Pros and Cons

Calcium carbonate (TumsTM) 
 - Most inexpensive, antacid properties useful for
ferric citrate Auryxia ... Binders #Table #Comparison ... #Pharmacology #
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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in HIV / AIDS - Differential ... monoparesis), limb ataxia ... , gait ataxia, and ... , hemiparesis, aphasia ... CNS #Infections #differential
Tandem Gait Ataxia in Atypical Parkinsonism

How to differentiate Parkinson’s disease from atypical Parkinsonism in a jiffy?
Tandem Gait Ataxia ... Parkinsonism How to differentiate ... has early tandem ataxia ... bobvarkey #Tandem #Gait ... #Ataxia #Atypical