📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic. Delete subjects that are not relevant to this topic.
🔹 Physiology
- Brain waves
• Clinical significance of EEG
• Definition of sleep
• Types and characteristics of sleep
• Basic theories of sleep
• Genesis of NREM sleep
• Genesis of REM sleep
• Neurotransmitters involved in sleep
• Sleep disorders
• Definition of seizure
• Definition of epilepsy
• Classification of seizures and epilepsies
• Causes of seizure and epilepsy - Basic pathophysiology of epilepsy / mechanism of seizure generation
- Clinical features of epilepsy
• Significance of electrophysiological studies in epilepsy
• Significance of imaging and other investigations in epilepsy
• Brief pharmacological treatment of epilepsy
🔹 General Medicine
- Types of epilepsy
• Investigations of epilepsy
• Anti-epileptic drugs
🩺 Clinical Importance
- EEG as a diagnostic tool in epilepsy and sleep disorders
• Seizures as abnormal electrical activity of brain
• Differentiation of seizure types based on clinical presentation
