PATHO-CNS Infections

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Cowdry Type A

HSV

Periventricular Necrosis and calcification

CMV

Neuronphagia of the anterior-horn motor neurons

Poliomyelitis

Negri bodies

Rabies

Microglial nodules; multinucleated giant cells

HIV

Brain abscess near gray-white junction; RING ENHANCING LESIONS

TOXOPLASMA GONDII

SOAP BUBBLE APPEARANCE

CRYPTOCOCCUS

Subtle memory changes; SPONGIFORM TRANSFORMATION

CREUTZFELD-JACOB DISEASE

KURU PLAQUES

CREUTZFELD-JACOB DISEASE

Accumulation of Abeta, Tau

Alzheimer Disease

Accumulation of Tau, alpha-synuclein

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Polyglutamine aggregates

Huntington Disease

TPD-43, FUS

Amyotropic Lateral Sclerosis

Tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Neuritic plaques often around a central amyloid core, and Neurofibrillary tangles (AB)

Alzheimer Disease

Lewy Body

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Pallor of substantia nigra

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome

Vitamin B1 deficiency