Brainstem Rules of 4
Gates described a simplified method for answering the question 'Where is the lesion?' using only the parts of the brainstem that we actually examine during a clinical examination to understand brainstem vascular syndromes.
Category Neurology
Clinical Neurology a primer
Clinical neurology a primer is written by leading Australian neurology Associate Professor Peter Gates. This book is the ultimate guide to neurology for people like me – who don’t understand it, but need to know it! Available in kindle edition…
James Parkinson
James Parkinson (1755-1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, palaeontologist, geologist and political activist. Parkinson's disease (1817)
Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry
Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (1826 - 1865) was a French physician. Landry ascending paralysis (1859) as early description of Guillain–Barré syndrome (1916)
Myotomes and Differentiating Nerve Lesions
Myotomes and Differentiating Nerve Lesions
Spinal cord infarction
Spinal cord infarction is necrosis of a portion of the spinal cord as a result of an interruption of the blood supply to the spine
Hermann Oppenheim
Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919) was a German neurologist. Oppenheim sign/reflex (1902) and the archaic term Oppenheim disease (1900)
Thomas Willis
Thomas Willis (1621–1675) was an English physician.
Willis-Ekbom disease
Restless legs syndrome (RLS)/Willis-Ekbom disease (WED) is characterized by an urge to move the legs, usually associated with limb discomfort. The symptoms occur at rest, are relieved by movement, and are worst in the evening and at night.
Karl-Axel Ekbom
Karl-Axel Ekbom (1907-1977) Swedish neurologist. Eponym: Willis-Ekbom syndrome (Restless leg syndrome); Ekbom Syndrome II (Delusion of parasitosis)
Medically cleared?
A young woman is 'talking to voices' and is admitted to the psychiatric unit. Does she have a mental illness, or is something else going on?
Bullet in the Head
A gun shot wound to the head provides the basis for a question-and-answer based discussion on penetrating traumatic brain injury and multi-modal monitoring.