Seizure features

The following features can be used to distinguish a seizure from a faint:

CATCH A seizure:

• Confusion (post-ictal)
• Amnesia (post-ictal)
• Tongue-biting
• Cyanosis
• Headache (post-ictal)

• Aura (e.g. olfactory)

Causes of Pure motor neuropathy

"PHD is A TALL degree"
P= Poliomyelitis
H= Hereditary spinal muscular atrophy
D= Dapsone intoxication
A= Adult variant of Hexosaminidase deficiency
T= Tick bite paralysis
A= Acute intermittent porphyria
L= Lead intoxication
L= Lambert Eaton Syndrome
L= LMN form of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Guillain-Barre Syndrome

A- Acute , Ascending
B- Bilateral
C- cyto-albumin dissociation
D- Demyelination
E- Elevated protein count , EMG for accurate test
F- Flacid paralysis
G- Guillain-Barre
H- Hyporeflexia or absent 

Tabes Dorsalis features

DORSALIS:

Dorsal column degeneration
Orthopedic pain (Charcot joints)
Reflexes decreased (deep tendon)
Shooting pain
Argyll-Robertson pupils
Locomotor ataxia
Impaired proprioception
Syphilis

Dementia causes...

TV DEMENTIA..

T:toxic cause(alcohol),
V:vitamin deficiency(b12),
D:Degenerative disease like alzheimer,
E:emboli(vascular causes),
M:metabolic causes like renal nd liver failure,
E:endocrine cause like hypothyroidism,
N:normal pressure hydrocephalus,
T:trauma,
I:infection(encephalitis),
A:anoxia(cardiac failure)..

Nerve thickening

ISLAND
IDIOPATHIC HYPERTROPHIC NEUROPATHY
SARCOIDOSIS
LEPROSY
AMYLOIDOSIS
NEUROFIBROMATOSIS
DIABETES MELLITUS

Horner's syndrome: components

SAMPLE:
Sympathetic chain injury
Anhidrosis
Miosis
Ptosis
Loss of ciliospinal reflex
Enophthalmos

Cerebellar signs

DANISH

Dysdiadokokinesia, Dysmetria
Ataxia towards the side of lesion
Nystagmus
Intention tremor
Slurred speech
Hypotonia