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

📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

💊 Pharmacology

 

  • Substance abuse, dependence, addiction and habituation.
  • Withdrawal/abstinence syndrome.
  • Cross-tolerance.
  • Reverse tolerance/sensitization.
  • Cross-dependence.
  • Dopamine hypothesis of addiction.
  • Addictive versus non-addictive drugs of abuse.
  • Club drugs.
  • High- and moderate-risk drugs for addiction.
  • Pharmacological treatment of nicotine, alcohol and cannabis abuse.
  • Drug abuse in sports.
  • 🍺 Alcohol

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    • Ethanol pharmacokinetics and mechanism.
    • Pharmacological effects, clinical uses and adverse effects.
    • Disulfiram-like reaction.
    • Alcohol withdrawal.
    • Pharmacological treatment of alcoholism.

⚖️ Forensic Medicine

 

  • Psychological effects of drug dependence.
  • Drug abuse.
  • Theoretical approach to investigating a narcotics-related case.

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