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Therapeutic Indications for the Anticonvulsant Agents

#Anticonvulsant #Antiseizure #Medications #Pharmacology #Table #Neurology #Epilepsy #Management
#Medications #Pharmacology ... #Table #Neurology ... #Epilepsy #Management
Characteristics of Peripheral and Central Vertigo
PERIPHERAL VERTIGO
 • Onset: Sudden
 • Intensity: Severe initially, often decreasing
than a minute for BPPV ... posterior canal BPPV ... horizontal canal BPPV ... Purely vertical, spontaneous ... symptoms #comparison #neurology
Trigeminal Neuralgia [Tic douloureux] 
Clinical 
 • Excruciating paroxysmal pain 
 • Right > Left side
douloureux] Clinical ... nerve, eating, or movement ... • High rate of spontaneous ... remission Management ... TicDouloureux #Diagnosis #Management
Differentiating Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) From Vestibular Neuritis-Labyrinthitis
BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO
 • Age: More common
Positional Vertigo (BPPV ... occurs with certain movements ... patient with a clinical ... patient with a clinical ... Labyrinthitis #diagnosis #neurology
Dizziness and Vertigo Algorithm
Presyncope:
 • Feels "faint" or like they are going to "pass out"
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situations, or be spontaneous ... Symptoms worse with movement ... differential #diagnosis #neurology ... #management
Opsoclonus-Myoclonus Ataxia Syndrome (OMAS) -Dancing eyes - dancing feet syndrome
 • Opsoclonus: ocular spontaneous, arrhythmic, conjugate
Opsoclonus: ocular spontaneous ... conjugate saccades movements ... shock-like, involuntary movements ... Ataxia #Syndrome #clinical ... #video #neurology
Vertigo Differential Diagnosis and Management Algorithm
Vertigo: Symptom of illusory movement because of asymmetry in the vestibular
Diagnosis and Management ... Symptom of illusory movement ... Vertigo #Diagnosis #Management ... #Algorithm #neurology
Parkinsonian Gait 

Parkinson's gait is very characteristic: Standing, the patient tends to tilt the trunk forward,
perform compensatory movements ... starting the gait movement ... Parkinsons #Gait #Neurology ... #PhysicalExam #clinical
Characteristic eye movements found in congenital nystagmus

Video by Kathleen B. Digre, M.D. - Moran Eye Center

#Congenital
Characteristic eye movements ... Ophthalmology #Neurology ... #Clinical #Video
Left #Blepharospasm on physical exam

Blepharospasm (also called benign essential blepharospasm) is blinking or other eyelid movements,
or other eyelid movements ... #physicalExam #clinical ... #video #neurology