Course Content
🧠 Theme 1: Numbness and Tingling
📘 Topic 1 — Nervous System: Organization, Neurons, Glia and Brain Development
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 2 — Synaptic Transmission: Neurotransmitters, Excitation–Inhibition and Neural Metabolism
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 3 — Sensory Receptors and Coding: From Stimulus to Neural Signal
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 4 — Somatic Sensation Pathways: Touch, DCML, Anterolateral System and Somatosensory Cortex
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 5 — Peripheral Nerve Injury and Neuropathy: Degeneration, Regeneration and Diabetic Neuropathy
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme 2: Paraplegia
📘 Topic 6 — Spinal Cord: Structure, Development, Histology and Tracts
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 7 — Motor Organization of Spinal Cord and Spinal Reflexes
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 8 — Posture, Locomotion and Vestibular Control of Equilibrium
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 9 — Spinal Cord Lesions: UMN, LMN, Spinal Shock, Brown-Séquard Syndrome and Paraplegia
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📖 2 Learning Material
🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme 3: Syncope
📘 Topic 10 — Brainstem, Reticular Activating System and Consciousness
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 11 — Autonomic Nervous System: Organization, Pathways, Receptors and Visceral Control
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 12 — Syncope Integration: Autonomic Drugs, Brain Death and Medicolegal Certification
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme 4: Hemiplegia
📘 Topic 13 — Cerebrum and Diencephalon: Gross Structure, White Matter, Cortex and Histology
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 14 — Cortical Motor Control: Motor Cortex, Descending Tracts and UMN Pathways
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 15 — Stroke and Hemiplegia: Circle of Willis, Risk Factors, Prevention and Clinical Features
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme 5: Tremors
📘 Topic 16 — Cerebellum: Structure, Histology, Connections, Functions and Disorders
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 17 — Basal Ganglia: Nuclei, Circuits, Pathways and Motor Functions
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 18 — Parkinsonism and Tremor Integration: Biochemistry, Pharmacology and Clinical Correlation
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 — Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
🧠 Theme 6: Headache
📘 Topic 19 — Headache and Pain Pathways: Receptors, Referred Pain, Thermal Sensation and Analgesia
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 — Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 20 — CSF, Ventricular System, Blood–Brain Barrier and Hydrocephalus
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 — Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 21 — Higher Cortical Functions: Association Areas, Language, Speech, Memory and Limbic System
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
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📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 22 — Brain Waves, Sleep, EEG, Seizures and Epilepsy
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 23 — Neurodegeneration and Neuroinflammation: Alzheimer’s Disease, Meningitis and Encephalitis
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
📘 Topic 24 — Neuroradiology, Head Injury and Brain–Spinal Tumors
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🧪 3 Pre-Assessment, Diagnosis & Guided Reasoning
🧩 4 Concept Integration
📝 5 KMU Past Papers
🎯 6 Post-Test Evaluation
🧠 7 Student Memory Support
Neurosciences-1A Module

📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage

This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic. 

🔹 Physiology

 

  • Differences in location, level and organization of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
    • Target organs of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system
    • Distribution of afferent and efferent sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers to target organs
    • Comparison of sympathetic and parasympathetic branches based on:
    • Spinal cord division of origin
    • Length of preganglionic and postganglionic neurons
    • Neurotransmitters at ganglionic and target organ synapses
    • Receptors at ganglionic and target organ synapses
      Basic characteristics of sympathetic and parasympathetic functions
      • Receptors on effector organs
      • Function of adrenal medulla
      • Sympathetic and parasympathetic tone
      • Alarm or stress response of sympathetic nervous system

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