Neuroscience & Nervous System Module — 4th Year MBBS

About Course

An integrated 4th Year MBBS module covering the pathology, pharmacology, medicine, neurology, neurosurgery and relevant basic-science foundations of the nervous system. The module develops understanding of neurological localization, cerebrovascular disease, seizures, CNS infections, movement and demyelinating disorders, peripheral neuropathies, neurodegenerative disease, intracranial tumors and neurological emergencies, with emphasis on clinical evaluation, diagnosis and management through KMU-aligned integrated learning and case-based application.

Course Content

1. Sleep Disorders, Insomnia and Sedative–Hypnotic Pharmacology

2. Foundations of CNS Pharmacology: Neurotransmission, Receptors, Blood–Brain Barrier and CNS Stimulants

3. Cerebral Depressant Poisons: Opioids, Alcohols and Sedative–Hypnotics

4. Stimulant, Hallucinogen, Deliriant and Fuel Poisoning

5. Epidemiology and Foundations of Biostatistics

6. Mood Disorders: Depression, Bipolar Disorder, Suicide Prevention and Pharmacotherapy

7. Anxiety, Dissociative, Stress-Related and Somatoform Disorders

8. Personality Disorders, Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Clinical Management and Antipsychotic Therapy

9. Substance Use Disorders, Alcohol and Addiction Pharmacology

10. Opioids: Clinical Pharmacology, Dependence and Tramadol

11. Dementia, Alzheimer Disease, Forensic Psychiatry and Mental Health Law

12. Population Mental Health and Professional Conflict Resolution

13. Cerebrovascular Disease: Ischemic Stroke, Intracerebral Hemorrhage and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

14. Descriptive Biostatistics and Data Distribution

15. Inferential Biostatistics: Confidence Intervals, Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Tests

16. Seizures and Epilepsy: Clinical Evaluation, Status Epilepticus and Anti-Seizure Pharmacotherapy

17. Regional and Neuraxial Anaesthesia, Local Anaesthetics, Preoperative Assessment and Monitoring

18. General Anaesthetics and Perioperative Pharmacology

19. Parkinson Disease and Antiparkinsonian Pharmacotherapy

20. Huntington Disease, Spinocerebellar Ataxias, Motor Neuron Disease and Friedreich Ataxia

21. CNS Infections and Rabies: Meningitis, Encephalitis, Brain Abscess, Toxoplasmosis and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis

22. Tumours of the Nervous System: Brain, Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerve Tumours

23. Migraine, Cluster Headache and Chronic Daily Headache: Clinical Approach and Pharmacotherapy

24. Head Injury: Skull Fractures, Cerebral Injury and Medicolegal Evaluation

25. Multiple Sclerosis, Transverse Myelitis and Other CNS Demyelinating Disorders

26. Spinal Cord Disease and Traumatic Paraplegia: Caries Spine, Vertebral Injury and Management

27. Peripheral Neuropathies and Neuromuscular Junction Disorders: GBS, Hereditary Neuropathies, Entrapment and Myasthenia Gravis

28. Neurotoxic Paralysis: Spinal Poisons, Neurotoxic Snakebite, Botulism and Peripheral Poisons