Neuroscience – Medical School Exams
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NEUROSCIENCE TOPICS
BLOCK 1:
- Introduction to neuroscience and action potentials
- Organization of cell types
- Synapse formation/development
- Ionic mechanisms of action potentials
- Propagation of the action potentials
- Synaptic transmission of skeletal neuromuscular junction and mechanisms of neurotransmitter release
- Synaptic transmission in the central nervous system/synaptic plasticity
- Synaptic vesicles, synthesis, transport, exocytosis and retrieval
- Amino acid neurotransmitters
- Acetylcholine neurotransmitters
- Biogenic amine neurotransmitters
- Neuropeptides and nitric oxide
- Neurotransmitters and behavior
- Principles of structural and functional neuroimaging
BLOCK 2:
- Somatosensory systems
- Spinal cord
- Somatosensory pathways
- Somatosensory processes
- Pain principles
- Pain tracts and sources of pain types
- Pain modulations and mechanisms
- Clinical modulations and mechanisms
- Clinical correlations of pain management
- Chemical senses of olfaction and gustation
- Vestibular system
- Auditory system
- Clinical otology
- Clinical vestibular correlations
- Somatosensory disorders & sensory system disease
- Spinal cord disorders
- Neurological evaluation
BLOCK 3:
- The eye
- The visual pathway: the retina
- Visual processing
- Overview of the motor system
- Motor units and muscle receptors
- Spinal reflexes
- Motor cortex
- Basal ganglia
- Cerebellum
- Integrated motor system and its disorders
- Lower motor neuron lesions
- Upper motor neuron lesions
- Extrapyramidal disorders
- Visual motor system
- Ocular motor system
- Neuroopthalmolgic methods
- Cranial nerve examination and disorders
- Principles of neurosurgical intervention
- Brain circulation
BLOCK 4:
- Homeostasis and the structural organization of the hypothalamus
- Hypothalamic control of the pituitary hormone
- Central control of the autonomic nervous system and thermoregulation
- Central control of feeding behavior
- Neuroendocrine disorders
- Genetic and neurological disease
- The limbic system: anatomy, pathways and function of the hippocampus
- The limbic system: anatomy, pathways and function of the amygdala
- Learning and memory
- Amnesia
- Sleep disorders
- Language
- Association and executive processing
- Blood-brain barrier and brain metabolism
- Traumatic brain injury and cell death
- CNS aging and Alzheimer’s Disease
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