- Severe, frequent migraine - Paracetamol not working
- Brain tumors look a bit like haemorrhage on CT
- But they have OEDEMA around them
- Numbness in R leg, spreading to both legs and arms over 4 days, with UMN signs
- Sudden onset N+V with severe headache; Gets better; CT normal
- Drug-induced tremor and rigidity in L arm?
- Metoclopramide (dopamine antagonist)
- Not carbamazepine (stabilizes the inactivated state of Voltage-gated sodium channels)
- Acute endocrine dysfunction following TBI?
- Feature suggesting generalised seizure
- Tongue-biting > Urinary incontinence
- 64 year-old smoker, gradually progressive tremor, worse when using hands, worse on left
- Thrombolysis of acute ischaemic stroke
- Alteplase ONLY
- No anti-platelets or heparin
Other notes
- Cerebral salt-wasting syndrome (CSWS)
- Rare endocrine condition featuring hyponatremia and dehydration in response to trauma/injury or the presence of brain tumors
- DLB
- Ffluctuating cognition with great variations in attention and alertness from day to day and hour to hour
- Recurrent visual hallucinations
- Motor features of Parkinson's
- Parkinson's plus (with extra features)
- Multiple system atrophy
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Dementia with Lewy bodies?
- Synucleinopathies vs tauopathies
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