📘 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.
