Course Content
Neuroscience & Nervous System Module — 4th Year MBBS

📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

💊 Pharmacology

 

  • Classification of sedative–hypnotics.
  • Benzodiazepines: classification, pharmacokinetics, mechanism, pharmacological effects and clinical uses.
  • Benzodiazepine adverse effects, tolerance, dependence and drug interactions.
  • Flumazenil as benzodiazepine antagonist.
  • Barbiturates: classification, mechanism and clinical uses.
  • Barbiturates versus benzodiazepines: mechanistic differences.
  • Buspirone: mechanism, clinical use, merits and limitations versus benzodiazepines.
  • Ramelteon: mechanism and clinical use.

🧠 Psychiatry

 

  • Classification and major types of sleep disorders.
  • Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of sleep disorders.
  • Healthy sleep and sleep-hygiene principles.
  • Non-organic insomnia: definition and management.
  • Sleep–wake cycle disorders: concept and management.
  • Sleepwalking and its treatment.

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