Neurology 2

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Topic

Investigation of patients with different neurological diseases: history taking, neurological physical examination, discovery of common neurological disorders and neurological emergencies

Management of common neurological disorders, drug treatments, indication of neurosurgical intervention.

Lectures

• 1.

  Alzheimer disease and dementias

  - Kovács Norbert
• 2.

  Myopathies

  - Pál Endre
• 3.

  Stroke II.

  - Szapáry László (Neurológia)
• 4.

  Myasthenia gravis

  - Komoly Sámuel
• 5.

  Paraneoplastic neurological diseases

  - Ács Péter
• 6.

  Stroke III.

  - Szapáry László (Neurológia)
• 7.

  Motor neuron diseases

  - Pál Endre
• 8.

  Headache

  - Bosnyák Edit
• 9.

  Neuropathic pain

  - Komoly Sámuel
• 10.

  Sleep disorders

  - Faludi Béla
• 11.

  Meningitis, Encephalitis

  - Komoly Sámuel
• 12.

  Epilepsy syndromes, treatment

  - Janszky József Vladimir
• 13.

  Antibody-medated neurological disorders (NMOSD, anti-MOG, autoimmune encephalitis)

  - Illés Zsolt
• 14.

  Neurogenetics

  - Pál Endre

Practices

• 1. Examination of stroke patients
• 2. Examination of stroke patients
• 3. Examination of patients with multiple sclerosis
• 4. Examination of patients suffering from neuropathy
• 5. EMG, ENG, EEG examinations
• 6. EMG, ENG, EEG examinations
• 7. Observe lumbar puncture and visit the CSF laboratory
• 8. How to do basic CSF examinations?
• 9. Visit to the CT MRI facility
• 10. Visit to the CT MRI facility
• 11. Examination of patients suffering from muscle disorders
• 12. Consultation of patients with neurogenetics problem
• 13. Coma and related disorders of consciousness I
• 14. Coma and related disorders of consciousness II
• 15. Examination of stroke patients
• 16. Examination of stroke patients
• 17. Examination of patients with multiple sclerosis
• 18. Examination of patients suffering from neuropathy
• 19. EMG, ENG, EEG examinations
• 20. EMG ENG EEG examinations
• 21. Observe lumbar puncture and visit the CSF laboratory
• 22. How to do basic CSF examinations?
• 23. Visit to the CT MRI facility
• 24. Visit to the CT MRI facility
• 25. Examination of patients suffering from muscle disorders
• 26. Consultation of patients with neurogenetics problem
• 27. Coma and related disorders of consciousness I
• 28. Coma and related disorders of consciousness II

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clinical-Neurology-4th-T-J-Fowler/dp/0340990708

Materials of the lectures are available in POTEPEDIA.

Notes

Recommended literature

Physical examination

http://neurology.hu/physicalexamination.pdf

Books

Hankey's Clinical Neurology 2014

Neurology : A Queen Square Textbook 2009

Oxford Handbook of Neurology 2014

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

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Mid-term exams

According to study and examination regulations

Making up for missed classes

Extra scheduled practices

Exam topics/questions

Questions:

"A" Neurological physical examination

1. Examination of the skull, spine and meningeal signs

2. Examination of first and second cranial nerves (smell sensation, vision)

3. Examination of ocular movements (cranial nerves III, IV and VI)

4. Examination of the trigeminal nerve

5. Examination of the facial nerve. Types of facial palsy.

6. Examinations in case of vertigo (n. VIII, central vs. peripheral vestibular lesions)

7. Dix-Hallpike and Halmágyi-maneuver, alternation cover test and Epley – reposition maneuver

8. Examination of nerves IX, X, XI and XI

9. Examination of deep tendon reflexes

10. Examination of the pyramidal signs

11. Examination of the muscle tone and strength. Signs of central vs. peripheral lesion

12. Examination of Parkinsonism (muscle tone, hypo- and bradykinesia, alternating movements, gait, postural instability)

13. Examination of the cerebellar symptoms

14. Examination of the sensation

15. Examination of the limb- and trunk ataxia

16. Examination of the speech and the main types of disturbances

17. Examination of the unconscious patient

18. Examination of the patient after a short-time loss of consciousness

19. Examination of the patient with dementia

20. Examination of the confused patient

21. Examination of a patients with dizziness

22. Examination of a patients with headache

"B"

1. The most common types of myopathies and myositis

Accidental (provoked) seizures

2. Benign positional paroxysmal vertigo

Transient ischemic attack

3. Differential diagnosis of tremors

Treatment of the acute stroke

4. Myasthenia gravis

Convulsive syncope

5. Polyneuropathies

Subarachnoid hemorrhage

6. Neuroimaging

Guillain-Barre syndrome

7. Carpal tunnel-syndrome

Secondary headaches

8. Gliomas

Parkinson's disease

9. Peripheral facial palsy (Bell-paresis)

Thrombosis of the intracranial sinuses

10. Acute meningitis

Intracerebral hemorrhage

11. Types of epilepsy

Potentially reversible dementias

12. Encephalitis

Primary prevention of stroke

13. Ischias syndrome and cervicobrachialgia (symptoms, warning signs)

Clinical features of multiple sclerosis

14. Motor neuron diseases

Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis

15. Trigeminal neuralgia

Neuromyelitis optica (Devic-disease)

16. Clinical symptoms of insufficient blood supply in territory of carotid and vertebral artery

Differential diagnosis of short-term loss of consciousness

17. Types and etiology of unconsciousness. Coma

Status epilepticus

18. Migraine and other primary headaches

Types of disturbances of urinary bladder innervation

19. Traumatic brain injuries

Herpes infection, postherpetic neuralgia

20. Traumatic spinal cord injuries

Alzheimer disease

21. Meningiomas

Neurological disorders related to alcoholism

22. Hydrocephalus

Secondary prevention of stroke

23. Lumboischialgia and chronic back pain

Nervous system metastases

24 Paraneoplastic nervous system diseases

Symptoms of raised intracranial pressure

25. Focal dystonias

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

26. Symptoms of insufficient blood circulation in veretebrobasilar territory

Subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord (funicular myelosis)

27. Ischemic stroke

Wilson's disease

28. Obstructive sleep apnoe syndrome

Choreas, Huntington disease

29. Restless-legs syndrome

Conversion disorders

Examiners

• Ács Péter
• Bosnyák Edit
• Faludi Béla
• Horváth Réka
• Janszky József Vladimir
• Komoly Sámuel
• Kovács Norbert
• Pál Endre
• Pfund Zoltán
• Sebők Ágnes
• Tóth Márton Tamás

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

• Ács Péter
• Bosnyák Edit
• Faludi Béla
• Juhász Annamária
• Kovács Norbert
• Pál Endre
• Pfund Zoltán
• Sebők Ágnes
• Tóth Márton Tamás