TIL: Always laugh at an attending's jokes (even if he's being an egotistical ass and rehashing stupid puns).
Stupor is a stupidly general term meaning any depressed state of consciousness between coma and normal awake.
A coma is different from a vegetative state. A coma is being unconscious and unarousable whereas patients in a vegetative state are still partially arousable - for instance they still go through normal sleep and wake cycles. When aroused, a vegetative patient has no awareness; to make a crude metaphor: the lights are on but there's no one home.
Urbach-Wiethe disease is an extremely rare condition that causes all sorts of problems. One of the more curious possible symptoms can be nearly complete fearlessness, caused by the bilateral calcification of the amygdala resulting in
Pseudo-bulbar affect its a condition described as a disconnect between emotions and outward behavior (e.g. inappropriate laughing).
Félix Vicq d'Azyr, besides being the all-time winner for highest per letter scrabble score for a name, was a French physician and anatomist who first identified several structures of the brain. He was particularly well known for describing aspects of the limbic system, including the mammillothalamic fasciculus, also known as the bundle of Vicq d'Azyr.
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