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Depression: major episode characteristics

SPACE DIGS:
Sleep disruption
Psychomotor retardation
Appetite change
Concentration loss
Energy loss
Depressed mood
Interest wanes
Guilt
Suicidal tendencies
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Benzodiazepenes: antidote

"Ben is off with the flu":
Benzodiazepine effects off with Flumazenil.
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Narcotics: side effects

"SCRAM if you see a drug dealer":
Synergistic CNS depression with other drugs
Constipation
Respiratory depression
Addiction
Miosis
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---Robert O'Connor University College Dublin

Facial nerve branches

"Two Zombies Buggered My Cat":
· From superior to inferior:
Temporal branch
Zygomatic branch
Buccal branch
Mandibular branch
Cervical branch
· Alternatively: "Two Zulus Bit My Cat".
· Alternatively: "Two Zebras Bit My Coccyx".
· Alternatively: "To Zanzibar By Motor Car".
· Alternatively: "Tall Zulus Bear Many Children"
· Alternatively: "Tell Ziggy Bob Marley Called".
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---Anonymous Contributor and Rohan hall Universtiy of Otago, NZ and Anatomist

Temperature control: cerebral regions

"High Power Air Conditioner":
Heating = Posterior hipothalamo [hypothalamus].
Anterior hipothalamo [hypothalamus] = Cooling.
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---Gilvano Amorim Oliveira Universidade de Santo Amaro São Paulo/Brasil

Facial nerve: branches after Stylomastoid foramen

"Ten Zulus Buggered My Cat (Painfully)":
· From superior to inferior:
Temporal branch
Zygomatic branch
Buccal branch
Mandibular branch
Cervical branch
(Posterior auricular nerve)
· Alternatively: "PAssing Through Zanzibar By Motor Car" (PA for Posterior Auricular).

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---Stephan Sanders and Kris Downing Nottingham Medical School, UK and UCR/UCLA Biomedical Sciences Program, USA

Benzodiazepenes: drugs which decrease their metabolism

"I'm Overly Calm":
Isoniazid
Oral contraceptive pills
Cimetidine
· These drugs increase calming effect of BZDs by retarding metabolism.
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---Anonymous Contributor

Dementia: some common causes

DEMENTIA:
Diabetes
Ethanol
Medication
Environmental (eg CO poisoning)
Nutritional
Trauma
Infection
Alzheimer's
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---Anonymous Contributor

Vertigo: differential

VOMITS:
Vestibulitis
Ototoxic drugs
Meniere's disease
Injury
Tumor
Spin (benign positional vertigo)
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---Dr. J.G. Norris

V3: sensory branches

"Buccaneers Are Inferior Linguists":
Buccal
Auriculotemporal
Inferior alveolar
Lingual
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---Jennifer Chuang University of Vermont School of Medicine