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

📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🔬 Pathology

 

  • Parkinson disease: aetiology and risk factors.
  • Morphology
  • Clinical features.

💊 Pharmacology

 

  • Classification of antiparkinsonian drugs.
  • Levodopa pharmacokinetics, mechanism, adverse effects, contraindications and interactions.
  • Levodopa with carbidopa/benserazide.
  • On–off phenomenon.
  • End-of-dose akinesia.
  • Drug holidays.
  • Bromocriptine
  • Selegiline and its distinction from antidepressant use.
  • Apomorphine
  • Drug-induced Parkinsonism.
  • Causative drugs and management.
  • Why levodopa is avoided in drug-induced Parkinsonism.

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