Nervous System

Description

Anatomy & Physiology Notes:

• EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• OVERVIEW & ORGANISATION OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• SURFACE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN
• BLOOD SUPPLY OF THE BRAIN
• CRANIAL NERVES
• THE SPINAL CORD
• NEURONAL PHYSIOLOGY
• NEUROTRANSMITTERS
• NEUROBIOLOGY OF MEMORIES
• NEUROBIOLOGY OF EMOTIONS
• SOMATOSENSORY PROCESSING
• MOTOR PROCESSING
• THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM
• PAIN & NOCICEPTION
• SPECIAL SENSES – VISION
• THE TONGUE & GUSTATION (TASTE)
• OLFACTION (SMELL)
• HEARING AND EQUILIBRIUM
• REGIONAL ANATOMY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• IMPORTANT CLINICAL NEUROLOGICAL THINGS

Pathology Notes:

• STROKES
• INTRACRANIAL HAEMORRHAGES
• ISCHAEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY
• RAISED INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE
• SPINAL CORD SYNDROMES
• TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES
• EPILEPSY
• GUILLIAN-BARRE SYNDROME
• HUNTINGTONS DISEASE
• MOTOR NEURONE DISEASE (MND)/AMYELOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS)
• POLIOMYELITIS
• MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS
• LEUKODYSTROPHIES
• MYASTHENIA GRAVIS
• PARKINSON’S DISEASE (“Shaking Palsy”)
• BRAIN TUMOURS
• DEMENTIAS
• PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHIES
• INFECTIONS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
• EAR PATHOLOGIES
• VISION DISORDERS