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The course is divided into three components: lectures, seminars and clinical sessions. Seminars and lectures target the key groups of neurological disorders and clinical training provides exposure to history taking, breaking bad news and neurological examination. The notes below include cognitive neuroscience training that used to be a separate course but is not anymore.
Clinical sessions during the first course offered this year are conducted at the Department of Neurology at Przybyszewskiego Hospital Entrance K, first floor.
Seminar topics
Cerebrovascular Disorders
Diseases and syndromes of the spinal cord
Disorders of the Cranial nerves
Diagnostic studies in neurology
Headaches and Head trauma
Peripheral nerve disorders and neuropathies
Movement disorders
CNS Infections
Neurodegenerative disorders
Sciatica and entrapment syndromes
CNS neoplasms
Neuromuscular disorders
Epilepsy
CNS inflammatory disorders (MS)
Clinical schedule
Introduction to clinical examination
Examination of motor system
Neurovascular examination
Visual system and eye movements
Case studies
Clinical evaluation of patients with stroke
Neurological emergencies
Electroencephalography and Visual evoked potentials
Practical clinical examination
Breaking bad news
Practical clinical examination
Assessment of neuroexam skills
Recommended resources for PUMS Students
We recommend Clinical Neurology by Aminoff, Greenberg and Simon for learning symptom oriented approach to neurological diseases.
Once you have access to the university library website you can access multiple neurology textbooks via Clinical Key resource.
In addition you can use Access Medicine resources containing detailed chapters on neurological examination and approach to neurological patient. Please take advantage of them:
Adams and Victor Textbook of Neurology - Chapter 1 - Approach to the Patient with Neurological disease
Harrison's online - Textbook of Internal Medicine - Video recording of neurological examination by Prof M. Samuels
Mobile and online apps for learning and reviewing brain anatomy
ZygoteBody WebApp for Google Chrome
Neurological Examination
Neurological examination - by Craig Brooker from Cleveland Clinic
American Academy of Neurology - Guide to Neurological Examination
Neurological examination chapter from Principles and Practice of Emergency Neurology
Cognitive examination and specialized tests of cognition
Mini-mental state examination
Scales and scores in neurological practice
Glasgow Coma Scale
NIH Stroke Scale
Kurtzke Expended Disability Status Scale - evaluation for multiple sclerosis
Hoehn-Yahr Scale for staging of Parkinson disease
Dementia and disorders of cognition
International League Against Epilepsy - Guidelines
Podcasts
Radiology
Neurology
Lancet Neurology
Annals of Neurology
Epilepsy Classification
Berg et al., 2010
The etiologic classification of epilepsy
Shorvon, 2011
New concepts in classification of the epilepsies: Entering the 21st century
Berg & Scheffer, 2011
Panayiotopoulos, 2011
Gaillard et al., 2011
Patsalos et al., 2008
ILAE Treatment Guidelines - Epilepsia, 47(7) 1094-1120, 2006
American Academy of Neurology resources
American Academy of Neurology Student resources
Preparing for NBME Clinical Neurology examination
The course end in case based multiple choice question examination provided by the National Board of Medical Examiners.
National Board of Medical Examiners
Clinical neuroscience NBME exam sections
Neurology NBME sample test items
PS. Dont forget serotonin syndrome and visual field deficits
Neurological postgraduate training
Student Research Group
There is Student Research Group active at the Department: Student Research Group Neurology
All students are invited to participate
Lectures
Neurological Examination - Feb 2019
Open Neurology Textbook
Learning clinical neuroscience is critical to dynamic development of new skills and acquiring information by young doctors. No matter what your future specialty will be you will still need updated information on multitude of neuro-oriented topics from diagnosing and treatment of pain syndromes to diagnosis of stroke and determination of death. Here is a repository of research and review papers available in public repositories that will help you find the answers and learn neurology.
Audio
American Journal of Neuroradiology Podcast
Guidelines
Journals
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry
Journal of Neurological Sciences
Organizations
American Academy of Neurology
European Federation of Neurological Societies
European Neurological Society
American Neurological Association
Neurological Reviews
History of Neurology
Special issue of Brain on John Hughlings Jackson
Neuroradiology
Congenital Brain malformations
Review Based Neurology
Review Based Neurology
Review Based Neurology is a cutting-edge concept of knowledge dissemination among medical students and neurology residents community. It contains links to the latest reviews on neurology related issues published in neurological journals.
This is something you were looking for for quite some time. Regularly updated neurology textbook based on recent review papers published in professional journals. The idea came from three sources: (1) the debate on free access to medical papers, (2) outdated information published in relatively new textbooks, and (3) databases of links to open-source resources.
There are three basic sources of knowledge in medicine: (1) journals, (2) textbooks and (3) lectures. Some of them are unavailable, some are expensive and other even though cutting-edge are hard to follow. Thats why probably the best source of up-to-date information is a compilation of recent review papers available in *.pdf format. All you need is out there... guidelines, perspectives, classifications, epidemiology, treatment and management. You just have to find it! From now on you can just visit Review Based Neurology [RBN] and you can find links to all of them. Download them from your university library or contact the author and ask for pdf reprint via email.
2013-11-02 - Looks like this idea was not for that time (2005) - really limited interest
Section: Infectious diseases
Disease: Herpes Virus Infection
Journal: Nature Clinical Practice Neurology
Year: 2007
Author: Gilden et al.
Goto: Nature Clinical Practice Neurology (2007) 3, 82-94
Title: Herpesvirus infections of the nervous system
Donald H Gilden, Ravi Mahalingam, Randall J Cohrs and Kenneth L Tyler
Section: Infectious diseases
Disease: Neurocysticercosis
Journal: Neurology
Year: 2006
Author: Nash et al.
Goto: NEUROLOGY 2006;67:1120-1127
Section: Neurodegenerative disorders
Treatment: Clinical trials in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
Journal: Neurology
Year: 2006
Author: Cheung et al.
Title: Selecting promising ALS therapies in clinical trials
Link: NEUROLOGY 2006;67:1748-1751
Section: Epilepsy
Treatment: Side effects of AEDs (Psychotropic effects of antiepileptic drugs)
Journal: Neurology
Year: 2006
Author: Alan B. Ettinger
Goto: NEUROLOGY 2006;67:1916-1925
Section: Movement disorders
Disease: Neuroacanthocytosis
Journal: Neurology
Year: 2007
Authors: Walker et al.
Goto: NEUROLOGY 2007;68:92-98
Paper published in Neurology 2007 from Hirtz et al. give interesting insight into methodology behind establishing incidence and prevalence of neurological disorders.
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology presents review articele on diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (pdf).
Paper by Gary Gallia, Daniele Rigamonti and Michael Williams from Johns Hopkins Hospital, Adult Hydrocephalus Program in Baltimore reviews current medical literature and summarizes clinical symptoms (a)gait impairment, (b)cognitive decline and (c)urinary incontinence, and typical presentation (a)ventriculomegaly and (b)absence of elevated cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure.
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology is yet another journal that will provide a forum for cutting-edge reviews and original papers in clinical neurology.
EFNS Teaching course on treatment of Parkinson's Disease - Paris 2004
European Stroke Initiative guidelines - in pdf format
European Stroke Initiative Recommendation for Stroke Management - Cerebrovascular Disorders 2003;16:311-337
Neurodegeneration can affect the brain and behavior in many ways and you have to be prepared to know the differential diagnosis for each syndrome, know how to manage the patient and his family, inform them about genetic risk factors and treat the patient.
Evidence-based Dementia Practice - you can get free access to 10 chapters of this usefull textbook
American Academy of Neurology - Diagnosis of Dementia - May 2001
American Academy of Neurology - Detection of Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment - May 2001
American Academy of Neurology - Management of Dementia - May 2001
Prof. Martin Rossor's Teaching seminar on Dementia - EFNS Paris 2004
There are many diagnostic tests used in neurology and it might be a bit difficult to manage it in just one section.
For practical purposes we can divide them into
(1) Electrodiagnostic studies - EEG, EMG, NCS, EP
(2) Neuroimaging - CT, MRI, SPECT, PET, US
(3) CSF examination - LP and biochemistry
(4) Neuropsychology
(5) Genetic testing
Each one will have its separate section.
Neurological examination
This section is about how do you examine a patient with neurological disease and what conclusion can you draw on the basis of your examination.
Take a look at the www.neuroexam.com it will show you how to conduct basic neurological examination.
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Cognitive neuroscience course
Course is designed to introduce students to modern methods and problems in cognitive neuroscience with emphasis on transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Lectures will take place on Mondays at 1.45 pm at Miedzychodzka 5 room 110 starting February 23, 2015. Course will be based on
Jamie Ward "Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience" and Eric Kandel "Principles of Neural Science"
Modules
Research methods in cognitive neuroscience
Brain electrophysiology
Brain imaging
Research methods in cognitive neuroscience
Tools and resources
Software for cognitive neuroscientists
Tone matrix - sound patterns generator
PEBL - the psychology experiment building language , PEBL blog , PEBL Technical reports
Affect 4.0 - psychological experiment environment [ref]
Tscope - C library for cognitive experiments
PsychoPy - psychology experiment software
R for psychologists - how to convince psychologists to use R CRAN
Comparison of software for cognitive testing and paradigm presentation
Stimulus libraries
Massive memory experiment data and protocol
Center of Neural Basis of Cognition Stimuli - Carnegie Mellon University
The Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS)
Set of 480 Normative Photos of Objects to Be Used as Visual Stimuli in Cognitive Research
Center of Neural Basis of Cognition Stimulus reporitory
Psychological Image Collection at Stirling (PICS)
Perception and experience lab stimuli
Bank of Standardized Stimuli (BOSS) by Mathieu Brodeur
Geoffrey Aguirre (UPenn) Lab Stimuli
References
Churchland, P.S., and T.J. Sejnowski. “Perspectives on Cognitive Neuroscience.” Science 242, no. 4879 (1988): 741.
Brain electrophysiology
Electroencephalography software and data
SPM EEG mismatch negativity sample dataset
EEG and ERP recording from Caltech
UCI Machine Learning repository EEG data
Seizure Prediction Project Freiburg
Power Spectral Density analysis
SignalML - software for EEG data conversion
Why and how to learn signal processing - Signal processing for neuroscientists
How to improve your background in physics
Feynman Lectures on Physics wiki
Feynman lectures on Video - Project TUVA
Brain imaging
References
Raichle, M. E. (1998). Behind the scenes of functional brain imaging: A historical and physiological perspective. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA, 95, 765–772.
Memory
Movie - Man without memory
Movie - Unknown White Male DVD
Essay - Oliver Sacks The Abyss
Wiki - Clive Wearing Story
Documentary - How memory works - H.M. Story
Documentary - Prisoner of Consciousness
Lectures - Eric Kandell's Lecture on Memory (video)
Software - Brainworkshop - software for dual n-back
Consciousness and disorders of consciousness
Movie - The Diving Bell and a Butterfly - Movie based on a book written by patient in locked-in state.
Sensory information processing
Synesthesia - lab (perception and action)
Neural Basis of Individual Differences in Synesthetic Experiences
Language processing in the brain
Executive functions and emotions in the brain
Cognitive tests used in clinical settings
Neuropsychological tests on wikipedia
Montreal Cognitive Assessment - MoCA
Learning resources
Mobile and online apps for learning and reviewing brain anatomy
ZygoteBody WebApp for Google Chrome
E-books
Books
Ward - Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience
Gnotero - OSS reference management tool
Neurodebian Virtual Machine Installation
Open Source eye-tracking software
User control
Processing eye-movement data
Projects related to course content
Project - Human Connectome Project - New Scientist about the project
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
W 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Ward
Databases
Neuromuscular Disease Center - Washington University St. Louis
Child Neurology Knowledge Environment
Neurology
Neurology Journals
Journal of Neurological Sciences
Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders
Neuroimage
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology
Neurology CME Journals
Neurologic Clinics of North America
Radiology Journals
American Journal of Neuroradiology
Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
American Journal of Roentgenology
Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
European Journal of Radiology
International Journal of Emergency Medicine
Medicine
New England Journal of Medicine
Case reports
International Journal of Case Reports and Images
Journal of Medical Case Report
Associations
ICNA Child Neurology Association
American Neurological Association
European Federation of Neurological Societies
American Society for Functional Neuroradiology
Polskie Towarzystwo Neurologiczne - skladka 2016
Publishing
Free Archive of Royal Society Publishing
Fun
Google Sites
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