Y2 OCaPE: NSB8 Muscle Weakness

❌🧇 OCaPE: NSB #8 Muscle weakness & twitches Difficulty  4/5 Reset ⏲️ A patient has come back from holiday and comes in complaining of having difficulty carrying out movements and describes “weakened muscles”. The patient also mentions they have been having annoying twitches in their left arm. 5 minutes Q1) What is the name […]

Y2 OCaPE: NSB 7 Bilateral Paralysis

❌🧇 OCaPE: NSB #7Bilateral Paralysis Difficulty  3.6/5 Reset ⏲️ You are a 2nd year medical student at the GP’s practice. Mrs X, a 68 year old lady, presents on a wheel chair. The GP reveals to you that he has seen Mrs X’s grandchildren recently for a respiratory chest infection, and Mrs X was […]

Y2 OCaPE: NSB 6 Tingling Sensation

❌🧇 OCaPE: NSB #6Tingling Sensation & Limb Problems Difficulty  2.4/5 Reset ⏲️ Mrs S, a forty-year-old female comes to your clinic. She complains of a tingling shooting sensation into her limbs upon flexion of her neck and blurred vision. Upon taking a history you find out she had a temporary vision impairment in one […]

Y2 OCaPE: NSB 5 Head & Neck Anatomy

❌🧇 OCaPE: NSB #5 Head & Neck Anatomy Difficulty  4/5 Reset ⏲️ 5 minutes Q1) Diagram A – Label the two sutures shown above Show answer to Q1 Coronal Suture, Saggital suture (1 mark) Q2 What is the condition called when the sutures fuse early? Show answer to Q2 Craniosynostosis (2) Q3 Which suture […]

Y2 OCaPE: NSB 4 Eye Chart Exam

❌🧇 OCaPE: NSB #4Chart for Vision Test Reset ⏲️ Student Scenario: You are a second year medical student at a GP placement. The doctor is performing an eye exam on a patient, using this chart: 5 minutes Q1) What is the name of this chart? Show answer to Q1 SNELLEN Chart (1) Q2 What does […]

Y2 OCaPE: NSB 3 Shuffling Gait

❌🧇 OCaPE: NSB #3 Tremor at rest & slow movements Reset ⏲️ Student Scenario: Mr F presents to your clinic. He complains of a gradual increase in the rigidity of his muscles and has now developed a tremor in his hands whilst at rest. You also notice his movements are slow. 5 minutes Q1) What […]

Neuroanatomy Summary

❌🧇 Notes: NEUROANATOMY NUCLEI SUMMARY Don’t know your aunts from your peduncles? Your feta from your olives?  This page is for you.Best viewed on big screens Waffle Warning ! You may not need to know all the locations or exact 3D structure of every one of the nuclei here, some diagrams are just to help […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Brainstem

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanatomy brainstem Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson Somatosensory Systems: (ascending tracts)• anterior spinal artery supplies the ventral grey horns, lateral corticospinal tracto if the anterior spinal artery is blocked (spinal stroke), the greatdescending motor tracts and main ascending pain pathways will all die• posterior intercostal arteries → […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Brain & Spinal Cord

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanatomy brain & spinal cord Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson Neuroanatomy: Forebrain 3Thalamus:• all input sensory information (except olfaction) goes to the thalamus, whichorganises it to what is important and what can be ignored• Thalamic Nuclei:o Anterior nucleus- connected to the hippocampus and is related tomemoryo Dorsomedial […]

NSB Neuroanat Notes: Forebrain 3

❌🧇 Notes: nsb neuroanat forebrain 3 Similar resources: Y2, Y2Notes, Y2 NSB, Y2NeuroAnat neuroanatomy Patrick anderson • Alzheimer’s Disease-o shrinkage of the forebrain, expansion of the sulci and ventricles as brain tissue is lost (due to amyloid changing tau protein, which spreads like avirus)o cholinergic input increases cortical activity of the cerebral cortex▪ Nucleus basalis […]