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L2 - HARC: Vasculature of the CNS
Describe and differentiate between the cerebral, cerebellar and brainstem arterial supply and trace their origin and anastomosis. Describe cerebrospinal fluid circulation and abnormalities that may interrupt the flow of CSF. Define and describe the dural venous sinuses and their venous flow pattern. Describe how a haemorrhage or blockage could disrupt the flow of arterial, venous or CSF flow and the resulting implications.
50  cards
L1 - Diseases of the Neuosensory system: Intro
1. Revise neurosensory anatomy and physiology 2. Lesion and location 3. Clinico-anatomical method in neuroscience 4. General review of disease types 5. General principles of disease course
12  cards
L3 - Disorders of Neural Development
1. Learn about abnormalities of neural development including neural tube defects and abnormalities of cortical development. 2. Understand cerebral palsy and the neurological effects of birth injury.
41  cards
L4 - Neurogenetic Disorders
1. Revise modes of inheritance relevant in clinical neuroscience including AD, AR, X-Linked, mitochondrial, anticipation in triplet repeat disorder. 2. Learn examples of important inherited neurological diseases that present in early life and those that present in maturity.
30  cards
L5 - Neoplastic Diseases in the Nervous System
1. Understand the forms of neoplasia that may arise from cells. 2. Understand the distinction between neoplasia and dysplasia. 3. Concepts of staging and grading. 4. Revise the different cell types of the nervous system and associated tissues. 5. Learn that tumours may metastasise to the nervous system or affect the nervous system remotely (paraneoplastic effects) 6. Learn about the pathological complications of brain tumours.
41  cards
L6 - Disorders of neural transmission
1. Understand the pathophysiology of seizures and epilepsy 2. Learn about types of epilepsy and underlying causes - structural, genetic and autoimmune. 3. Understand disorders of the ion channel - central and peripheral, congenital or autoimmune (primary and paraneoplastic)
10  cards
L7 - Infective Disorders of the Meninges and Brain
1. Learn about different types of meningitis - viral, bacterial, fungal and (non infective) 2. Understand acute intracranial infections - bacterial meningitis, viral encephalitis and brain abscess 3. Understand chronic infections of the nervous system - chronic meningeal infections, HIV, JC virus and measles reactiviation, prion diseases
23  cards
L8 - Stroke
1. Understand the abnormalities of cerebral blood supply include ischaemia and haemorrhage. 2. Learn about types of ischaemic cerebral lesions - large and small vessel occlusion. 3. Understand risk factors relevant for ischaemic stroke. 4. Understand the subdivision of intracranial haemorrhages by location. 5. Learn about lesions that may underlie intracranial haemorrhage - vascular anomalies (aneurysms - berry and Charcot-Bouchard, AVMs and tumours)
32  cards
L9 - Functional Disorders
1. Recognise the frequency of functional neurological disorders, and medical unexplained syndromes, and the range of severity. 2. Define somatisation, somatoform disorder, conversion disorder, dissociation, malingering and factitious disorder. 3. Understand that abnormal health beliefs may occur in depression and schizophrenia, but that these syndromes differ from the functional disorders. 4. Learn about common functional neurological presentations including non-epileptic attack disorder, functi
20  cards
L11 - Cerebrospinal fluid pathway and disorders
1. Describe normal CSF circulation 2. Communicating hydrocephalus 3. Non-communicating hydrocephalus 4. Developmental abnormalities of skull base 5. Syringomyella 6. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension 7. Abnormal eye movements 8. False localising 9. Venous sinus thrombis
45  cards
L10 - Diseases of Peripheral nerves
- Understand the clinical syndromes that localise to the peripheral nervous system - mononeuropathy, multiple mononeuropathy, polyneuropathy, plexopathy and radiculopathy with examples - Understand the subtypes of polyneuropathy - acute or chronic, demyelinating or axonal, large fibre or small fibre, sensory, motor or autonomic. - Learn about the range of pathological processes that affect the peripheral nerves - genetic, inflammatory, toxic, metabolic (eg diabetes).
46  cards
L17 - Pain
1. Revise peripheral and central neural pathways that subserve pain 2. Learn about localisation in pain syndromes - ranging from small fibre peripheral neuropathy to thalamic infarction 2. Understand complex regional pain syndromes and phantom limb phenomenon. 3. Know difference between primary and secondary head aches. 4. Understand that primary headache disorders differ from other types of pain and are managed differently, and know the important types of primary headache - migraine, cluster
76  cards
L18 - Disorders of the Brainstem
Describe the midbrain,
Describe the pons,
What is the cerebello pontine angle
3  cards
L6 - Disorders of Neural Transmission
1. Pathophysiology of seizures, epilepsy 2. Types of epilepsy 3. Underlying causes of epilepsy 4. Structural, genetic, autoimmune causes of epilepsy 5. Disorders of ion channels, central, peripheral, congenital, autoimmune (primary, paraneoplastic) 6. Disorder of neuromuscular junction: Myasthinia Gravis and effect of clostridial toxins
28  cards
L16 - Diseases of the eye
Describe the iris of the eye,
What layers can the eyeball be di...,
Describe fibrous layer of the eye
58  cards
L19 - Hearing & Balance disorders
1. Revise anatomy of inner ear, vestibular cochlea nerve 2. Learn about disease of the outer and middle ear. 3. Disorder of inner eat affecting hearing and balance 4. Understand CNS lesions rarely cause hearing loss 5. Describe common causes of lightheadedness and feeling faint 6. Describe common causes of low BP, disease vestibular apparatus, brain stem and cerebellar disease
52  cards
L15 - Disorders of Motor control
What is ataxia,
Briefly state the different categ...,
What is sensory ataxia
54  cards
L13 - Neuro-opthalmological disorders
1. Revise visual pathways up to and behind the optic chiasm 2. Describe types of visual field loss and how these correspond to certain locations within the visual system. 3. Learn the chief causes of visual field loss. 4. Describe the common disorders of the extraocular muscle system (squint / straibismus, double vision and amblyopia) 5. Learn the common / important causes of double vision (nerve palsies, myasthenia gravis. thyroid eye disease, mitochondiral disease / CPEO)
59  cards
L12 - Disorders of the motor unit and spinal cord pathways
State the two categories of muscl...,
Describe myasthenia gravis,
Myasthenia gravis preferentially ...
55  cards
L12 - Disorders of Motor unit and Spinal cord pathways CLINICAL CASES
36 y o male falls of horse while ...,
54 y o male wasting of both hands...,
78 y o female atrial fibrillation...
8  cards
L14 - HARC: The Motor System - Clinico-anatomical correlations
1. Define the components of the basal ganglia - the nuclei and pathways 2. Describe and define the differences between an upper motor neuron and a lower motor neuron. 3. Describe and define the differences between an upper motor neuron lesion and a lower motor neuron lesion and their implications. 4. Describe how cranial nerve abnormalities can manifest - trigeminal neuralgia, facial palsy and disorders of the eye. 5. Be able to trace the pathways of the major sensory and motor pathways thro
76  cards
L20 - Traumatic Brain Injury
- Risk factors for head injury and markers of severity - Difference between primary and secondary brain injury. - Delivery of medical intervention affects latter - Understand complications of head injury - Importance of rehabilitation
44  cards
L21 - Primary psychiatric disorders and their biological basis
1. Understand the distinction between the neuroses and psychoses 2. Learn about depression, its symptoms and key chemical and genetic determinants 3. Learn about schizophrenia, its symptoms and key chemical and genetic determinants
10  cards
L22 - Disorders of Cognition
1. Key domains of cognition: attention, memory, language, executive function, social cognition, higher order sensory function, high order motor function 2. Lesions producing amnesia, Korsakoff psychosis, viral encephalitis 3. Understand acute confusion 4. Learn the localisation of cognitive syndromes - language areas, functional areas within the frontal lobes, areas involved with higher sensory and motor processing. 5. Learn about Alzheimers disease as the most common cause of persistent cogn
31  cards

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