📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
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🔹 Biochemistry
- Metabolism of phosphosphingolipids
🔹 Pharmacology
- Groups of drugs used in Parkinson’s disease
• Mechanism of action of drugs used in Parkinson’s disease
🔹 General Medicine
- Pathology of Parkinson’s disease
• Clinical features of Parkinson’s disease
• Treatment of Parkinson’s disease
• Difference between cerebellar tremor and parkinsonian tremor
🩺 Clinical Importance
- Tremor as a clinical sign of cerebellar or basal ganglia dysfunction
• Cerebellar tremor as an intention tremor related to coordination failure
• Parkinsonian tremor as a resting tremor related to basal ganglia dysfunction
• Correlation of substantia nigra involvement with Parkinson’s disease
