[saleem khawaja]

30 year old male drug user with history of MPTP exposure present with tremors at rest, rigidity, and postural instability. direct innervation from sitè of lesion to which nuclei has been damaged?

a. caudate and putamen
b. globus pallidus externus
c. globus pallidus intern us
d. subthalamic nucleus

please give explanation too

 

[Master shifu]

30 year old male drug user with history of MPTP exposure present with tremors at rest, rigidity, and postural instability. direct innervation from sitè of lesion to which nuclei has been damaged?

a. caudate and putamen
b. globus pallidus externus
c. globus pallidus intern us
d. subthalamic nucleus

please give explanation too

MPTP exposure is an important cause of parkinson syndrome e.g. resting tremor, rigidity, postural instability........so my answer is
a) Caudate and putamen

 

[Jainparis18]

caudate and putamen..... as it is case of parkinsonism

 

[yosky87]

30 year old male drug user with history of MPTP exposure present with tremors at rest, rigidity, and postural instability. direct innervation from sitè of lesion to which nuclei has been damaged?

a. caudate and putamen
b. globus pallidus externus
c. globus pallidus intern us
d. subthalamic nucleus

please give explanation too

If DIRECT wasn't there, all the answers wud have been correct,
Site of lesion is substantial ***** which sends inhibitory doparminergic effect directly to caudate and putamen
Which is relayed to globes pallidus externus
From there to globes pallidus internus
Then inhibitory signals are sent to the subthalamic nucleus and then projected to the cortex
Correct answer is A (caudate and putamen) DIRECTLY

 

[saleem khawaja]

thanks guys. this q was from FA Q and A and answer given is subthalamic nucleus

 

[yosky87]

thanks guys. this q was from FA Q and A and answer given is subthalamic nucleus

On this one, I beg to disagree,

 

[spasemaster]

answer is 4 years later but what the heck!
it should be B.
A is huntington.
Globus internus and Subthalamic nuclei are damaged as part of treatment of parkinsonism (also subthalamic damage causes hemibalismus).