| Course Objectives: |
The purpose of this course is to provide a basic overview of the most common and important neurological diseases and conditions affecting people worldwide: stroke, epilepsy, headache, back pain, neurodegenerative diseases, movement disorders, alterations of consciousness, nervous system infections, traumatic brain injury, and neuromuscular diseases.
The teachers will focus on the fundamentals of the clinical presentation and evaluation of people with these disorders, as well as some of the additional diagnostic approaches and options for treatment.
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| Course Content: |
• To recognize and identify the importance of neurological disorders and the use of electroneurophysiological diagnostic methods
• To identify and discuss the prevalence of neurological diseases particularly among older populations which make them the main source of social problems that the governments are facing with
• To learn to handle with the EMG examinations of patients bearing chronical neurological illness
• To learn to handle with the EEG examinations of patients bearing chronical neurological illness
• To distinguish major neurogical signs of illness
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| Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
| 1) |
• Introduce the course to the students |
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| 2) |
Identify the types of sensorial disorders that may be a manifestation of neurological disease |
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| 3) |
Pain
• Describe the individual and cultural aspects of pain
• Identify the integration of pain from peripheral stimulus to brain
• Describe the organization of pain receptors
• Explain the ways and methods to releive the pain |
To read the documents related to PAIN |
| 4) |
• Motor system disorders
• Describe the deficits arising from motor system lesions
• Identify the reasons of hemiplegics and hemiparetics
• Explain how the motor functions of the individuals are effected by different level lesions of the motor system
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Read the related parts |
| 5) |
Headache
• Describe the reasons of primary and secondary headaches
• Describe the conditions effecting pain receptors causing headache
• Explain the mechanism of the migraine |
Examine the given case studies |
| 6) |
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| 6) |
Head and spine traumas
• Describe the effects of the injuries on spine
• List and explain the outcomes of head traumas corresponding to the severity of the impact
• List and explain spine injuries causing paraplegia |
Watch the related videos |
| 7) |
Cranial nerves
• List and explain the conditions effecting cranial nerves
• Identify painful involvement of the cranial nerves
• Identify the differences between ordinary cranial pain and trigeminal neuralgia
• Explain the imaging techniques how to approach cranial nerve lesions |
Anatomy preperations |
| 8) |
• MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
Work on the related subjects |
| 9) |
• Describe the vision defects resulting from optic nerve lesions
• Describe the reasons of pure anosmia
• Discuss the conditions that may cause Bell’s paralysis |
Reading documents |
| 10) |
• Loss of consciousness
• Discuss the medical situations that may cause short term loss of consciousness
• Describe all neurological levels of consciousness
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Study the cases |
| 11) |
Epilepsia
• Identify the general and focal epilepsy syndromes and their electroneurophysiological manifestations through the EEG recordings |
Observe the EEG studies |
| 12) |
Epilepsia
• State the importance of EEG recordings for epilepsy patients
• Describe the different epilepsy syndromes |
Case studies |
| 13) |
• Peripheral nerve disorders
• State the diagnostical electrophysiological methods to Identify the level of the disorder
• Describe the metabolic conditions that may cause peripheral nerve disorders
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Watch the case studies |
| 14) |
• Autonomous nerve system and its disorders
• Describe the importance of neurotransmitters that take active part in autonomous system
• Discuss the importance of the autonomous system |
Reading the proposed documents |
| 15) |
• Rediscussion of the topics less understood
• Overall review of the course
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Prepare questions before the final exam |
| 16) |
• Final Exam
• Evaluate students via final exam |
None |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
| 1) |
Accepting the patient within the competence, preparing the patient for the examination |
1 |
| 2) |
Applying the desired electroenophysiological tests, EEG, ENMG and UP according to the correct methods and procedures |
2 |
| 3) |
Prepare all the devices used in the electroneurophysiology laboratory for measurements |
1 |
| 4) |
To learn the features and treatments of neurological diseases and treatments |
3 |
| 5) |
Carrying out the follow-up and control of the patient records which have been examined in the laboratory until the reporting period |
1 |
| 6) |
Ability to work in labs according to quality goal |
1 |
| 7) |
Can apply all procedures for working environment and biosecurity of the environment |
1 |
| 8) |
To be knowledgeable about neurological diseases
To know basic signs and symptoms of neurological diseases
To know the tests used in diagnosis and follow-up of neurological diseases |
4 |
| 9) |
To be able to maintain individual communication before and after the examination with the patients in the laboratory |
1 |
| 10) |
Prepare all necessary electrodes, connection cables and disposable electrodes to be used in laboratory tests and to use them correctly and safely |
1 |
| 11) |
To be able to take care of an Electrourophysiology laboratory alone and to make up for its deficiencies |
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