📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic.
🔹 Anatomy
- General features of neurons and their classification
• Difference between central nervous system and peripheral nervous system
• General features of brain: forebrain, midbrain and hindbrain
• General features of spinal cord including enlargements at different levels
• General features of cranial nerves and spinal nerves
• Anatomical differences between sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
🔹 Embryology
- Development of primary and secondary brain vesicles
• Derivatives of brain vesicles
• Development of prosencephalon, mesencephalon and rhombencephalon
• Congenital anomalies associated with different regions of brain
🔹 Physiology
- General design of nervous system
• Divisions of nervous system
• Structural and functional unit of CNS
• Functional components of neuron
• Functional and structural classification of neurons
• Major levels of central nervous system function
• Glial cells and their functions
• Nervous system as an information-processing system
