Narkolepsie: Einführung
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Der Vortrag „Narkolepsie: Einführung“ von Roy Strowd, MD ist Bestandteil des Kurses „Schlafstörungen“.
Quiz zum Vortrag
What is narcolepsy?
- A neurological sleep disorder marked by daytime sleepiness and associated with cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis
- A group of sleep disorders marked by unusual actions, activities, or physiological events that occur during sleep or sleep–wake transitions
- A group of conditions characterized by recurrent patterns of sleep disruption
- A sleep disorder characterized by difficulty in initiation, maintenance, or consolidation of sleep, leading to an impairment in function
- A degenerative neurologic disease marked by pronounced insomnia
Which of the following terms describes the emotionally triggered loss of muscle tone?
- Cataplexy
- Hypnagogic hallucinations
- Sleep paralysis
- Catatonia
- Narcolepsy
What type of narcolepsy is characterized by genetic factors, loss of neurons in the lateral hypothalamus, and orexin (hypocretin) deficiency?
- Narcolepsy type 1
- Narcolepsy type 2
- Secondary narcolepsy
- Cataplexy
- Hypnagogic narcolepsy
What is hypothesized to be a possible trigger of an autoimmune process causing narcolepsy?
- Streptococcal pharyngitis
- Alcoholism
- Yersinia enterocolitica
- Smoking
- Cocaine use
Lesions affecting which region of the brain might lead to secondary narcolepsy?
- Posterior hypothalamus
- Ventromedial hypothalamus
- Basal ganglia
- Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
- Internal capsule
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Dozent des Vortrages Narkolepsie: Einführung
Roy Strowd, MD
Dr. Roy Strowd is the Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Medical Education at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, in North Carolina, USA.
He obtained his MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine in 2009, and his MEd from Johns Hopkins University in 2021. Currently, he co-directs the Neurofibromatosis and Tuberous Sclerosis Clinics at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, and is a researcher for the Adult Brain Tumor Consortium (ABTC) and Alliance for Clinical Trials in Neuro-Oncology.
Due to his achievements, he earned the M. Brownell Anderson Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Within Lecturio, Dr. Strowd teaches courses on Clinical Neurology.
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