Medical Student Cases and Questions

These links lead to a group of cases with questions. During your month on Neurology, you should work at answering the questions. It is perfectly appropriate to ask for help from residents or attendings if you are having trouble. At the end of the month, three or four of these cases will be on the final exam.

• Behavioral Neurology

• Stroke

• Peripheral Neuropathies

• Infections

• Degenerative Disease

• Pediatric Neurology

• Seizures

• Pain

• Muscle Diseases

• Tumors

• A school teacher who wandered

• The writer who could not speak

• The man who could not shake hands

• A lawyer who could not read

• The man with the clumsy hand

• The man with the pain in the neck

• The man with the evolving stroke

• The man who forgot how to use his computer

• The postman with the sore hand

• The man with the dropped feet

• The woman who had trouble going down stairs

• The man who became paralyzed in two days

• The man who lost interest

• The lawyer who could not swallow his own saliva

• The fidgety salesman

• The freckled girl

• The disconnected dry cleaner

• The alcoholic whose dog had died

• The happy grandmother

• The hairdresser with the paretic seizure

• The balding woman

• The boy who got weak

• The freckled girl

• The hoarse lady

• The boy with the pink cheeks

• The boy with the headache