Fill in the Blanks Misc DiseasesOnline version misc dis by kenneth thomas 1 nystagmus dopamine deformans ACH pernicious cape sensory Lewy foramen rheumatoid Anterior Alzheimer's Korsakoff cholinesterase corticospinal Charcot's masked ascending ocular sex spinocerebellar Miscellaneous Diseases Still's : A form of juvenile arthritis . Paget's : Osteitis . Produces thickening and deformity of bone . Parkinson's : AKA paralysis agitans . Problem with in the basal ganglia . Inclusion bodies called bodies . Patient has face , stooped posture , resting tremor and festinating gait . Multiple Sclerosis : triad : scanning speech , intention tremor and . Characterized by exacerbations and remissions . Myasthenia gravis : Formation of antibodies that block the receptors at the myoneural junction producing excess thymic enlargement . Causes progressive weakness and fatigue . First starts in the muscles . ALS : AKA Lou Gherig's disease . horn and corticospinal tracts affected with no loss . PLS : AKA combined systems disease . Dorsal columns and tract affected . Results from long term anemia . Syringomelia : Cyst like formation from the central canal of the spinal cord that leads to loss of pain and temperature and signs of an upper motor neuron lesion . Described as a " like " distribution of pins and needles sensation . Arnold Chiari : Congenital - brain stem drops through magnum . Huntington's Chorea : Hereditary onset 30 - 50 Basal ganglia affected , deficiency of GABA . Produces dementia and death . : Progressive severe atrophy of the cerebral cortex . Aluminum deposits found in the brain . Friedreich's Ataxia : Lesions of sclerosis of the tract . Guillian Barre Poliomyelitis : Polyneuritis of the PNS . Seen following immunizations and produces an paralysis . Can be fatal if it affects the anterior horn . It produces LMNL . If it affects the brain stem , then cranial nerves are affected and the breathing apparatus may be damanged . : Alcoholic psychosis . Depletion of thiamine due to severe alcoholism . Charcot Marie Tooth : Hereditary progressive peroneal muscle atrophy Duchenne's muscular dystrophy : Pseudohypertrophy of the valves usually boys 3 - 7 . Recessive linked gene .
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