A 60 year old patient presents to the neurology clinic with new onset seizures and his wife reports “he’s just been different from himself” for the past 2 weeks. he was seen in the ER about 2 weeks ago for this seizure. The patient is stable and sitting comfortably in the exam room. As the patient moves to the exam table, you note slight ataxia. on neurological assessment, he has a diminished pupillary response on the right. What imaging modality will you recommend? 

When considering treatment of Parkinson’s disease, levodopa is typically used:

Which of the following is true with regard to lower extremity peripheral arterial disease?

The following agents are commonly used in secondary prevention of stroke except:

(3 points for the correct answer; 1 bonus point if your have answered questions 1 to 3 correctly.)  Consider the differential equation    

Consider the third-order nonhomogeneous linear differential equation

A young adult woman has been trying to conceive for over 6 months without success. She reports  irregular periods since menarche. During her physical exam the APRN notes that the woman is overweight, has acanthosis nigricans, and excess hair growth. What is the most likely primary cause of these symptoms?

Out-of-bound read and write are spatial memory errors, and use-after-free and uninitialized uses are temporal memory errors. Memory safety techniques can prevent such memory errors in principle. Explain what memory safety is [2pts] Then explain why memory safety techniques are not adopted in practice yet (top two reasons) [4pts] Think about the criteria for evaluating a defense mechanism.

Open-source software (OSS) welcomes everyone to contribute, so anyone can submit bug patches to OSS maintainers. In practice, patches can be untrusted and further introduce more critical vulnerabilities. Provide two suggestions on how to mitigate the threats and justify them. [3 + 3pts]

Acanthosis nigricans is characterized by velvety, darkened skin and is a sign of insulin resistance. Which of the following areas is commonly affected by acanthosis nigricans?