Basic Science
- Embryology
- Upper limb neuroanatomy
- Lowe limb neuroanatomy
- Cranial nerve anatomy
- Cerebellum and Basal Ganglia
- Sensory fibres and pathways
- Motor fibres and pathways
- Autonomic fibres and pathways
- Hearing
- Sight
- Intracranial pressure
Neurophysiology
- Graded Potentials
- Action Potentials
- Conduction of the Action Potential
- 2-point discrimination; vibration and temperature sensation
- Eye physiology- photosignalling
- Eye Physiology- the retina
- Fibre types
- Muscle spindles and Golgi Tendon Organs
- Sensory Innervation
- Motor Unit and Contractility
Core Clinical Problems/Presenting Problems
- Headache and Facial Pain
- Dizziness
- Fits, Faints, Funny turns
- Confusion and Amnesia
- Weakness
- Sensory Disturbance (Loss of sensation, altered sensation, pain)
- Abnormal Movements (Tremor, Jerks and other abnormal movements)
- Abnormal perception
- Balance Problems and Ataxia
- Abnormal Gait
- Speech/Language disturbance
- Visual disturbance
- Hearing disturbance
- Dysphagia
- Dysarthria
- Incontinence
- Personality change/Mood disturbance (Psychiatric disorders also)
- Sleep disturbance
Clinical Skills
- Neurological examination
- Motor
- Sensation
- Cranial nerves
- Cerebellum
- (CT and MRI Head Interpretation)
- Lumbar puncture
Neurological Disorders/Conditions etc
- Stroke
- Haemorrhage
- Subarachnoid
- Extradural
- Subdural
- Cerebral venous thrombosis
- Dementia
- Alzheimer’s disease
- Frontotemporal dementia
- Vascular dementia
- CJD
- Normal pressure hydrocephalus
- Wernicke’s encephalopathy/Korsakoff’s Dementia
- Epilepsy
- Status Epilepticus
- Headache syndromes
- Movement disorders
- Parkinson’s disease
- Multiple system atrophy
- Progressive supranuclear palsy
- Corticobasal degeneration
- Huntington’s disease
- Wilson’s disease
- Peripheral neuropathies
- Diabetic neuropathy
- Guillain Barre syndrome
- Chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy
- Multifocal motor neuropathy with conduction block
- Vasculitic neuropathy
- Compression neuropathy
- Carpal tunnel
- Radial tunnel
- Peroneal nerve compression
- Sciatica
- Muscle and neuromuscular junction disorders
- Tremor (essential tremor and other causes of isolated tremor)
- Motor neuron disease / amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Myaesthenia Gravis
- Muscular dystrophy
- Lambert-Eaton syndrome
- For inflammatory myopathies, see Rheumatology
- Multiple sclerosis
- Paraneoplastic syndromes
- Hydrocephalus
- Vertigo
- Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo
- Other neurological causes
- Other Inherited disorders
- Hereditary ataxias
- Mitochondrial disorders
- Neurocutaneous syndromes
- Metabolic diseases
- Infection
- Meningitis (bacterial, viral and other)
- Viral encephalitis
- Spinal abscess
- Transverse myelitis
- Opportunistic infections and Neurological manifestations of HIV
- Facial nerve palsy and Bell’s palsy
- Sleep Disorders
- Brainstem death
Notes on Medicine/Surgery 