Medical University of Bialystok. Lectures.
  • Updated 22.09.2018 by Klinika Neurologii

    Lectures

     

    1. The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology
    2. Additional investigations in neurology – part 1
    3. Additional investigations in neurology – part 2
    4. Cerebrovascular disorders – part 1
    5. Cerebrovascular disorders – part 2
    6. Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries
    7. Tumors of central nervous system and increased intracranial pressure
    8. Headaches
    9. Multiple sclerosis and demyelinating diseases
    10. Neurodegenerative diseases – part 1
    11. Neurodegenerative diseases – part 2
    12. Epilepsy
    13. Muscle and neuromuscular transmission disorders
    14. The polyneuropathies and peripheral nerve disorders
    15. The polyneuropathies and peripheral nerve disorders
    16. Neurocutaneus and inherited neurological disorders

     

     

    Classes

     

     

    First (Winter) Semester

    Class 1

    1. The neuroanatomy and neurophysiology 20 question test
    2. General approach to neurological history and examination 

    3. Neurological history taking

    4. Higher cortical function and dysfunction (frontal, parietal, temporal lobes, occipital lobe)

    5. Disorders of speech and language

    6. Mini Mental Status Examination

     

    Class 2

    1. Retake of the neuroanatomy and neurophysiology 20 question test

    2. The 10 question test (includes questions from the first and second class issues)

    3. Cranial nerve examination (I-XII nerves)

    4. Impairment of vision

    5. Disorders of smell

    6. Pupillary disorders

    7. Horner`s syndrome

    8. Diplopia and impaired ocular movement

    9. Disorders of gaze

    10. Facial pain and sensory loss

    11. Facial weakness

    12. Bell`s palsy and other facial nerve disorders

    13. Deafness, tinnitus and vertigo

    14. Disorders of the lower cranial nerves

    15. Causes of the lower cranial nerves palsies

    16. Pseudobulbar palsy

    17. Bulbar palsy

     

    Class 3

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Examination of upper and lower limbs, trunk, posture and gait, unconscious patient

    3. Brachial plexus

    4. Lumbosacral plexus

    5. Disorders of stance and gait

    6. Conscious level assessment

    7. The Glasgow coma scale

    8. Coma and impaired conscious level

    9. Transient loss of consciousness

    10. Confusional states and delirium

    11. Brain death

    12. Electroencephalography (EEG)

     

    Class 4

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Upper motor neuron weakness

    3. Lower motor neuron weakness

    4. Electromyography, Nerve conduction studies (EMG; ENG) and Evoked Potentials

    5. Sensory impairment

    6. Pain

    7. Pain syndromes (causalgia, postherpetic neuralgia, thalamic pain, phantom pain, visceral, referred pain)

    8. Limb pain

    9. Cerebellar disorders and involuntary movements

    10. Cerebellar dysfunction

    11. Nystagmus

    12. Tremor

    13. Movement disorders (chorea, athetosis, dystonia, ballismus, myoclonus)

     

    Class 5

    1. Spinal cord and root compression

    2. Spinal cord and roots

    3. Lateral compressive lesion

    4. Brown-Séquard syndrome

    5. Complete cord lesion

    6. Central cord lesion

    7. Cauda equina lesion

    8. Ultrasound and angiography

    9. Cerebello-pontine angle lesions

    10. Meningism

    11. Raised intracranial pressure

    12. Lumbar puncture and cerebrospinal fluid

    13. Revision of material

    14. Credit of the semester – 20-question test

     

     

     

     

    Second (Summer) Semester

     

    Class 1

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Revision of the neurological examination technique

    3. Disc prolapse and spondylosis

    4. Lumbar disc prolapse

    5. Lumbar spinal stenosis

    6. Spondylolisthesis

    7. Thoracic disc prolapse

    8. Cervical spondylosis

    9. Cervical disc prolapse

    10. Investigations

     

    Class 2

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Intracranial and spinal cord tumours

    3. Pathological classification of intracranial tumours

    4. Classification according to site

    5. Aetiology/incidence of intracranial tumours

    6. Clinical features of intracranial tumours

    7. Investigations

    8. Management

    9. Intrinsic tumours (astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma, metastatic tumours, lymphoma);

    10. Extrinsic tumours (meningioma, arachnoid cystis)

    11. Tumours of the posterior fossa (cerebellar metastases, haemangioblastoma, medulloblastoma, acoustic Schwannoma, pituitary adenoma, craniopharyngioma)

    12. Raised intracranial pressure

    13. Tumours of the spinal cord

     

    Class 3

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Cerebrovascular diseases

    3. Risk factors

    4. Mechanisms

    5. Natural history

    6. Causes (occlusion, embolisation, haemorrhage)

    7. Pathophysiology

    8. Transient ischaemic attacks

    9. Clinical syndromes of large vessel and branch occlusion

    10. Lacunar stroke

    11. Classification of subtypes of cerebral infraction

    12. Embolisation

    13. Investigations

    14. Management

    15. Hypertensive encephalopathy

    16. Venous thrombosis

     

    Class 4

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Intracerebral haemorrhage

    3. Subarachnoid haemorrhage

    4. Cerebral aneurysms (complications, management following SAH, unruptured)

    5. Arteriovenous malformations

    6. Vascular diseases of the spinal cord

    7. Dementias – classification, history and clinical examination

    8. Alzheimer`s disease

    9. Multi-infarct dementia and other specific diseases

    10. Dementia – diagnostic approach

     

    Class 5

    1. The 10 question test

    1. Epilepsy

    1. Classification

    1. The partial seizures

    2. Generalized seizures

    3. Unclassified seizures

    4. Differential diagnosis

    5. Causation

    6. Investigation

    7. Treatment

    8. Surgical treatment

    9. Status epilepticus

     

    Class 6

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Headache and facial pain

    3. general principles

    1. Diagnostic approach

    2. Tension type headache

    3. Migraine

    4. Cluster headache

    5. Post-traumatic headache

    6. Giant cell arteritis

    7. Headache due to raised intracranial pressure

    8. Headache due to intracranial haemorrhage

    9. Non-neurological causes of headache)

    10. Facial pain (diagnostic approach, trigeminal neuralgia, other causes of

    facial pain)

     

    Class 7

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Movement disorders

    3. Extrapyramidal system

    4. Extrapyramidal diseases

    5. Parkinson`s disease

    6. Secondary parkinsonism

    7. Chorea

    8. Dystonia

    9. Other movement disorders

     

    Class 8

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Multifocal neurological diseases

    3. Multiple sclerosis

    4. Acute optic/retrobulbar neuritis

    5. Other demyelinating diseases

    6. B12-deficiency – subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord

    7. Motor neuron disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

    8. Syringomyelia

     

    Class 9

    1. The 10 question test

    2. Muscle and neuromuscular transmission disorders

    3. Muscle morphology and function

    4. History, examination, investigations

    5. Inherited muscle disorders

    6. Muscular dystrophies

    7. Inflammatory myopathy: polymyositis, dermatomyositis

    8. Endocrine myopathies

    9. Metabolic myopathies – the periodic paralyses

    10. Toxic myopathies

    11. Mitochondrial disorders

    12. Myasthenia gravis

     

    Class 10

    1. The polyneuropathies

    2. Peripheral nerve disorders

    3. Brachial plexus syndromes

    4. Upper limb mononeuropathies

    5. Lumbosacral plexus syndromes

    6. Lower limb mononeuropathies

    7. Bell`s palsy and other facial nerve disorders

    8. Revision of material

    9. Credit of the semester – 20-question test

     

     

     

    On the Final Exam it is mandatory to know all symptoms of peripheral nerve disorders not only those mentioned during the classes or lectures (!!!)

     

    OBLIGATORY BOOK

     

    1. Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated – Fourth Edition – Kenneth W. Lindsay, Ian Bone; Churchill Livingstone

     

     

    ADDITIONAL BOOKS

     

     

    1. L/N on Neurology – Ginsberg

    2. Clinical Neurology – Aminnoff, Simon G.

    3. Harrison`s Neurology in Clinical Medicine – Hauser, Kasper E.

    4. BRS Neuroanatomy 3/e – Fix J. D.

    5. Review of Medical Physiology – Ganong W. F. – Lange Medical Books 21st ed 2003

     

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