Results for “movement disorders”

An 18-month-old boy is brought by his parents, who are alarmed that he bangs his head rhythmically against the cot rails for ten to fifteen minutes as he settle…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 3-year-old boy is brought by his mother, who says he never sits still, runs off in car parks and has been asked to leave two childcare centres. He was born at…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 8-year-old boy is brought by his parents because two or three nights a week, usually about an hour after falling asleep, he sits bolt upright and screams. He…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 71-year-old man is three months into rehabilitation after a left middle cerebral artery infarct. He eats little and has lost 4 kg. He wakes at 4 am and cannot…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 27-year-old man with schizophrenia took risperidone 6 mg daily for ten weeks and then olanzapine 20 mg daily for twelve weeks. His case manager supervises eac…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 22-year-old woman is admitted after three weeks of increasingly odd behaviour. Her mother says she had a flu-like illness a month ago, then became convinced h…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche

A 26-year-old accountant is brought to his general practitioner by his sister. For four months he has believed that the presenter of the evening news bulletin a…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 23-year-old woman is brought in by her partner with three weeks of escalating persecutory beliefs, agitation and rambling speech. Over the past week he has no…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche

A 22-year-old woman is admitted with three weeks of rapidly worsening persecutory beliefs and speech that is increasingly hard to follow. In the last week her f…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 19-year-old man received his first ever dose of an antipsychotic 14 hours ago, having been admitted with psychosis. He calls the nurse because his neck has pu…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 39-year-old man with bipolar disorder is brought to the emergency department one hour after becoming agitated and incoherent. His medicines are sertraline, tr…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 46-year-old man with schizophrenia becomes restless and confused two days after his haloperidol dose was increased. He is febrile at 39.8°C, has widespread mu…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 49-year-old man develops abrupt retro-orbital pain and vomiting while exercising. In the next hour he becomes drowsy and develops left ptosis with limitation…

AMC · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 60-year-old man with a history of chronic diarrhea presents with muscle weakness and lethargy. Laboratory tests show: potassium 3.1 mmol/L (3.5-5.0 mmol/L), b…

Year 4 · Clinical rotations · middle twist

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic function of simple cuboidal epithelium?

Year 1 · Foundations · common