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The Neurology: An Objective Based Learning!

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Dr. Sunil Kumar founded "The Neurology" in April 2011. The Neurology website is an educational objective based learning portal for neurology aspirants. It provides comprehensive, up-to-date, objective based frequently asked multiple choice questions in the neurology entrance examination paper. The Neurology: Self-Assessment And Review provides a complete neurology question bank.

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Neurology: Self-Assessment

✍️ Neurology: Self-Assessment || Stroke || Part 02 || Dear Neurology Aspirants! Please! Watch the video for Self-Assessment. The assessment video contains 30 questions from the Chapter: Stroke. The video used objective questions from “The Neurology: Self-Assessment & Review" by Dr. Sunil Kumar. Hope! This will help you to manage your time in the examination hall. Best of Luck!

Kennedy Disease

Multiple Choice Questions in Neurology: True and False statements about Kennedy Syndrome: CAG repeat Gynecomastia Testicular atrophy Peripheral neuropathy Ocular muscle involvement Kennedy's Disease Inheritance X-linked recessive disorder Trinucleotide repeat: CAG gene Clinical Features Slowly progressive limb-girdle type muscle weakness Slowly progressive bulbar dysfunction Early tremor Muscle cramps Fasciculations Marked abnormal sensory nerve conduction study Degeneration of both motor and sensory neurons Lower motor neurons signs Elevated serum creatine kinase Abnormal sex hormone levels Gynecomastia Testicular atrophy Diabetes mellitus Note: Extraocular muscles are spared. References: Fischbeck, K. H. "Kennedy disease." Journal of inherited metabolic disease 20.2 (1997): 152-158. Sperfeld, Anne D., et al. "X-linked bulbospinal neuronopathy: Kennedy disease." Archives of Neurology 59.12 (2002): 1921-1926. [Answers are A. CAG repeat-True, B. Gynecomastia-True

Cerebellar Historical Facts

✍️ Introduction: When you try to kiss someone, do you know which brain part decides the speed, distance and force of lip movement during a kiss? The best kiss is nothing but a fine coordinated movement of orbicularis oris muscle. Now you are thinking, who controls the coordinated movement of the lip? It is cerebellum! ✍️ Question: Who said - “rate, range, and force of movement is governed by the cerebellum. Sir Joseph Babinski Gillman & Gillman Gordon Holmes Sir Charcot ✍️ Explanation: The cerebellum monitors the rate, range, and force of the movement. The cerebellar diseases do not cause motor weakness but it produces unilateral in-coordination. According to Gordon Holmes, cerebellum controls the “rate, range, and force” of movement. ✍️ Answer(s): 3. Gordon Holmes ✍️ Reference: Holmes, Gordon. “The Croonian Lectures on the Clinical Symptoms of Cerebellar Disease and Their Interpretation. Lecture II. 1922.” Cerebellum (London, England), vol. 6, no. 2, 2007, pp. 148–53; discussion

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