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3 Column Model
ACh: Acetylcholine
Acute MS
Ia (A-alpha) Muscle Spindles
Ib (A-alpha) Golgi Tendon
II (A-beta) - touch, vibration, pressure
Acid-Base
Actinomyces
ABC: Aneurysmal Bone Cyst
Acute Transverse Myelitis
Aldosterone
AA: Anaplastic Astrocytoma
Achondroplasia / Dysplastic Pedicle Syndrome
ACTH
Acute Phase Reactants
AD: Alzheimer's Disease
ADEM
ADH / Vasopressin
AEDs: Anti-Epileptic Drugs
AIDP / Guillain-Barre
Angiolipoma
Alcohol
Alexia without Agraphia
Alpha-2
AIP: Acute Intermittent Porphyria
ALS: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Altitudinal Retinal Defect
Amaurosis Fugax
Amyloid Angiopathy
Anemia
Anencephaly
Anesthetics
Angiogram Anatomy
ANS: Autonomic Nervous System
ANS Dysautonomia
Arachnoiditis
ARDS: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
ARF: Acute Renal Failure
Carotid Artery Dissection
Agenesis of Corpus Callosum
Aneurysms - By Type
Ankylosing spondylitis
Aqueductal Stenosis
Arachnoid Cyst
Ataxia-Telangectasia
ATRT: Atypical Teratoid Rhabdoid Tumor
AVM: Arteriovenous Malformation
Bacteria
Balo's Concentric Sclerosis
BA: Basilar Artery
Behcet
Bell's Palsy
Beriberi
Black Widow Spider
Blue Rubber Bleb
Bone Hemangioma
Botulism
Brain Herniation
Brainstem Glioma - Medulla
Buerger's Thromboangitis Obliterans
Burst Fracture
Caput Medusa
Cardiac Arrhythmias
Cardiac Tamponade
Carotidynia
C1 - Atlas
C1 - C2
C2 - Axis / Odontoid / Dens
C5-6: Erb's Palsy
C3-C7 - Subaxial Cervical Spine
CN XI: Spinal Accessory Nerve
CADASIL
Capillary Telangiectasia
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Cardiac & Renal Drugs
Cardiac Risk Index
Carotid Stenosis
CCF: Carotid Cavernous Fistula
Cavernous Malformation
C. Diff: Clostridium difficile
Cerebral Autoregulation
Central Neuroblastoma
Central Neurocytoma
Cephalohematoma
Cerebrovascular Disease
Cerebral Abscess
Cerebral Arteries - Embryology
Cerebral Cortex - Frontal Lobe
Cerebral Edema
Cerebral Palsy / Spasticity
Cervical Spine Trauma
Cervical Degenerative Disease
Cervical Plexus
Chance Fracture
Chemical Vasculitis
Chemotherapy Drugs
Chiari Malformation
Cholesterol Granuloma
Cholinergic Crisis
Chordoma / Chondrosarcoma / Chondroid Chordoma
Choroid Plexus Papilloma / Carcinoma
Chromosomal Abnormalities
CIDP: Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy
Classic Avellis Syndrome
Cleidocranial Dysostosis
CNS Lymphoma
CN II: Optic Nerve
CN III: Oculomotor Nerve
CN IV: Trochlear Nerve
CN VI: Abducens Nerve
CN VII Pathology
CN IX: Pathology
CN X: Vagal Nerve
Colloid Cyst
Coma
Complete Basilar Syndrome
Compression Fracture
Concussion
Congestive Heart Failure
Congenital Muscular Dystrophy / Walker-Marburg
Corneal Ulcer
Corpus Callosum Disconnection Syndromes
Corticobasal Degeneration
CST: Corticospinal Tract
Craniopharyngioma
Craniosynostosis
CRPS: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome / Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
CSF Leak
CY-P450 Drugs
DAI: Diffuse Axonal Injury
Dandy Walker / Dandy Walker Variant / Mega Cisterna Magna / Posteriro Fossa Arachnoid Cyst
DAVF: Dural Arteriovenous Fistula
DCML: Dorsal Columns Medial Lemniscus
Dejerine - Roussy / Thalamic Pain
Delirium
Dementia
Dementia Pugilistica
Denervation Hypersensitivity
Dermal Sinus Tract
Dermoid Cyst
Developmental Ventricle Abnormalities
Devic's / Neuromyelitis Optica
DPL: Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage
DIC: Diffuse Intravascular Coagulation
DIG: Desmoplastic Infantile Ganglioglioma
DIPG: Diffuse Infiltrative Pontine Glioma / Pontine Glioma / Brainstem Glioma
Diphtheria
DISH: Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis
DNET: Dysembryoplastic Neuroepithelial Tumor
Dopamine
DVST: Dural Venous Sinus Thrombosis
Duret Hemorrhage
Dystonia
ECA Stenosis
Eclampsia
Ectopic Neurohypophysis
EDH: Epidural Hematoma
EEG / Sleep
Electrolytes -Ca, P
Embolic Stroke
EMG: Electromyogram
Encephalopathy
Encephaloceles / Cephalocele
Empty Sella Syndrome
Enteric Nervous System
Enterogenous Cyst
Enuresis
Ependymoma / Ependymoblastoma
Epidural Abscess
Epidermoid Cyst
Epidural Lipomatosis
Esthesioneuroblastoma
Ethics
Ewing's Sarcoma
Fahr's Disease
Failed Back Syndrome
Familial Periodic Paralysis
Fat Embolism
Fibrous Dysplasia
Fibromuscular Dysplasia
Foix Syndrome
Folate / Methionine / Homocysteine / Vitamin B 12
Foramen Magnum Meningioma
Foster Kennedy Syndrome
Fracture - Dislocation
Freidrich's Ataxia
Frontal Sinus Fracture
FSH / LH
Fungus
GABA
Gait
Ganglioglioma / Gangliocytoma
Garcin's Hemibasal Syndrome
GBM: Glioblastoma Multiforme
Gemistocytic Astrocytoma
Germ Cell Tumors
Germinal Matrix Hemorrhage
Giant Arachnoid Granulations
Giant Cell Pituitary Granuloma
GI Bleed
Gliomatosis Cerebri
Gliosarcoma / Feigin Tumor
Glutamate
Glycine, Renshaw Cell
Glycogen Storage Diseases
Gradenigo's Syndrome
GH: Growth Hormone
Gunshot Wound
Hallervorden-Spatz
Headache
Head Injury
Hemangioblastoma / VHL: Von Hippel Lindau
Hemangiopericytoma
Heme Drugs
Hemiballismus
Hemifacial Spasm
Hirschsprung's
High Intracranial Pressure
Histology Stains
HMSN: Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathies / Onion Bulb / Hypertrophic / Peroneal muscular atrophy
HNP: Herniated Nucleus Propopus
Holoprosencephaly
Horizontal Gaze
HTN: Hypertension
Huntington's Disease
Hydrancephaly
Hydromyelia
Hyperostosis Frontalis
Hypothalamic Hamartoma
Hypothermia
Hypothyroid
ICA - Persistent Fetal Circulation
ICP Monitoring
Immunohistochemistry
Infectious Vasculitis
Intracranial HYPERtension / Pseudotumor Cerebri
Intracranial HYPOtension
IVH: Intraventricular Hemorrhage
Ion Channels
IPH: Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage
Irregular Central Breathing
Ischemic Pathology
Ischemic Stroke
Isolated 4th Ventricle
Jacod's Syndrome
JPA: Juvenile Pilocytic Astrocytoma
Jugular Foramen Syndromes: Vernet, Collet-Sicard, Villarett
Jump Facet
K: Potassium
Kawasaki
Kernicterus
Kippel-Trenaunay-Weber
Klippel-Fiel
Lacunar Stroke
Lambert Eaton
Landau-Kleffner
Langerhan's Histiocytosis X
Lateral Recess Syndrome
Leber Hereditary Optic Atrophy
Leprosy
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
Leukodystrophies
Lewy Body Dementia
Lhermitte-Duclos
Lipoma
Lipomyelomeningocele
Lissencephaly
Locked In
Low Grade Diffuse Astrocytoma / Fibrillary Astrocytoma
Lowe Syndrome (Oculo-Cerebro-Renal Syndrome)
Luckenschadel
Lumbar Degenerative Disease
Lupus / SLE
Lymphocytic Hypophysitis
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Malignant Hyperthermia
Maple Syrup Urine Disease
Mannitol
Median Nerve: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Medulla
Medulloblastoma
Melatonin
MEN: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia
Menke's Kinky Hair Disease
Meniere's Disease
Meningioma
Meningitis
Meningioangiomatosis
Metastasis
Methanol Poisoning
Microglia
Micturation Syncope
Mg: Magnesium
MG: Myasthesnia Gravis
MI: Myocardial Infarction
Mitochondrial Diseases
Mononeuritis Multiplex
Moya Moya
MRI - Study for Disease
MS: Multiple Sclerosis
MTS: Mesial Temporal Sclerosis
Mucopolysaccharidases
Multiple Myeloma / Plasmacytoma
Muscular Dystrophy
Musculocutaneous Nerve
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Myotonic Dystrophy / Myotonia
Myositis
Na: Hyponatremia
Na: Hypernatremia
NAHT: Non-Acciddental Head Trauma
Narcolepsy
NCS / EMG Examples
NCS: Nerve Conduction Studies
NE: Norepinephrine
Necrotizing Fascitis
Neuroepithelial Cyst
Neurofibroma / MPNST: Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor
Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
Neuropathy
NF1: Neurofibromatosis Type I
NF2: Neurofibromatosis Type 2
Nisseria Meningitis
Nocardia
Nodular Heterotopia
NPH: Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
Nystagmus
O-C1
Occipital Neuralgia
Olfactory Groove Meningioma
Oligodendroglioma
Oligodendrocytes
Olivopontocerebellar Atrophy
Opioids
OPLL: Ossified Posterior Longitudinal Ligament
Optic Glioma
Orbit
Orbital Pseudotumor
Osteochondroma
Osteogenesis Imperfecta
Osteoid Osteoma
Osteoma
Osteomyelitis
Osteopetrosis
Osteosarcoma
Otalgia
Oxygen
OWR - HHT: Osler Weber Rendu / Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Palatopharyngeal Paralysis of Avellis
Paget's Disease
Pancoast Tumor
Paraganglioma / Glomus Jugulare / Chemodectoma
Paramedian Diencephalic Syndrome
Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Paraneoplastic Limbic Encephalitis
Parasites
Parietal Foramina
Parietal Lesion
Parkinson's Disease
Parsonage-Turner
Pars Fracture
PCom Aneurysm
PE: Pulmonary Embolism
Pediatric Stroke
Peds Specific Vitals, Fluids, Blood Volume
Perineuroma
Peripheral Nerve
Periventricular Leukomalacia
Pick's Disease
Pineal Cell Tumors
Pineal Cyst
Pituitary Adenoma
Pituitary Apoplexy
Posterior Vertebral Body Scalloping
Pons
Pupillary Light Reflex
PNA: Pneumonia
PNET: Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumors
Poisons
Polyarteritis Nodosa
Polymicrogyri
Porencephaly
Postherpetic Neuralgia
PCA: Posterior Cerebral Artery
PRES: Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
Pressors
Primary Autonomic Insufficiency
Prions
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
Prolactin
Protoplasmic Astrocytoma
Pseudolaminar Necrosis
Psych Drugs
PXA: Pleomorphic Xanthoastrocytoma
PTX: Pneumothorax
Pulmonary Edema
Radiation Necrosis
Raeder's
Rasmussen's Encephalitis
Rathke's Cleft Cyst
Respiratory Meds
Retinitis Pigmentosa
Retinoblastoma
Rexed Laminae
Rhabdomyolysis
Right Heart Failure
Rubrospinal Tract
Sacral Agenesis / Caudal Regression
Sacral Fractures
Sacral Meningocele
Sarcoidosis
Schizencephaly
Schwannoma
Schilder's
Scoliosis
Saethre-Chotzen
SAH: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage
SDH: Subdural Hematoma
SEGA: Subependymal Giant Cell Astrocytoma
Seizures
5HT: Serotonin
Sheehan's Syndrome
Shock
Shunt Malfunction / Infection
Shy Drager
Sinus Pericranii
Skull Fracture
SMA: Supplementary Motor Area Syndrome
Spasticity
Speech
Spina Bifida / Neural Tube Defect
Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal Cord Stroke
Spinal Epidural Abscess
Spinal Epidural Hematoma
Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)
Spine Anatomy - Degenerative Disease
Spine Aneurysms
Spine Fractures
Spine Vasculature
Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy / Kennedy's Disease
Spinoreticular
Spinal Tectal Tract
Split Cord Malformation / Diastematomyelia
Strep Pneumoniae
Striatonigral Degeneration
STT: Spinothalamic Tract
Sturge-Weber Syndrome
Subclavian Steal
Subdural Empyema
Subependymoma
Sural Nerve Biopsy
Stargardt's Disease
Stevens Johnson
Stiff Man Syndrome
Stimulants
Syncope
Synovial Cyst
Syphillis
Syrinx / Synringomyelia
Statistics
Takayasu's Arteritis
Taste: CN VII, IX, X
TectoSpinal Tract
Temporal Arteritis
Tetanus
Thoracic Outlet Syndrome
Thoracic Spondylosis
Thrombotic Stroke
Thyroid
TIA: Transient Ischemic Attack
Tethered Cord
TORCH
TIMI Score
Spinous Process Fracture / Transverse Process Fracture
TPN: Total Parenteral Nutrition
Traumatic IPH
Traumatic Neuroma
Trigeminal Neuralgia
Trigeminal Neuropathic Pain
TS: Tuberous Sclerosis
Tolosa-Hunt
Transfusion Reaction
Tremor
Ulnar Nerve
Ultrasound
Upper Extremity Exam / Brachial Plexus
Uremic neuropathy
Vagoglossopharyngeal Neuralgia
Vertebral Basilar Insufficiency
Vertical Gaze
VOGM: Vein of Galen Malformation
VOR: Vestibulo-Ocular-Reflex
Venous Air Embolism
Vestibulospinal Tract
Ventilator
Viruses
Eye / Retina
VWD: Von Willebrand's Disease
Wegener's Granulomatosis
Whipple's Disease
Wilson's Disease
Wormian Bones
Wound Healing
Wyburn - Mason
Zollinger-Ellison
Questions
Multi-Infarct Dementia
Sx: step-wise determioration
DDx: vasculitis, intravascular lymphoma, HTN, encephalopathy, emboli