Course Content
🧠 Theme 1: Numbness and Tingling
🧠 Theme 2: Paraplegia
🧠 Theme 3: Syncope
🧠 Theme 4: Hemiplegia
🧠 Theme 5: Tremors
🧠 Theme 6: Headache
Neurosciences-1A Module

📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic. 

🔹 Physiology

 

  • Tactile receptors in skin and their functions: Pacinian corpuscles, Meissner’s corpuscles, Ruffini endings, Merkel cells, A-delta fibers and C free nerve endings
    • Ascending sensory pathways and differences between them
    • Transmission in dorsal column–medial lemniscal system
    • Spatial orientation of nerve fibers in dorsal column–medial lemniscal system
    • Two-point discrimination
    • Diagrammatic representation of body areas in somatosensory cortex I
    • Brodmann areas of cerebral cortex and their functions
    • Functions of somatosensory area I
    • Layers of somatosensory cortex and their functions
    • Functions of somatosensory association area
    • Submodalities of nondiscriminative touch, temperature and nociception
    • Receptor transduction mechanism, localization in spinal gray matter and central termination of anterolateral pathways
    • Functional organization and submodalities of anterolateral system
    • Equivalent components of spinal trigeminal system

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