General Neurology Questions - Physiotherapy programme


1.               History in Neurology

2.               Proprioceptive reflexes

3.               Exteroceptive reflexes

4.               Olphactory nerve

5.               Optic nerve

6.               Ocular motor nerves: oculomotor, trochlearis and abducent nerves

7.               Trigeminal nerve

8.               Facial nerve

9.               Vestibulocochlear nerve

10.            Lowest four cranial nerves (n. glossopharyngeus, n. vagus, n. accessorius, n.

                  hypoglossus)

11.             Upper and lower motor lesion – clinical characteristics

12.             Lesion of corticospinal tract, bulbar and pseudobulbar syndrome

13.             Sensory system - exteroception

14.             Sensory system - proprioception

15.             Spinal cord lesions: transversal lesion, Brown-Sequard syndrome,  conus

                  medullaris syndrome, anterior cord syndrome, central cord syndrome.

16.             Cerebellum – structure and function

17.             Cerebellar syndrome

         18.             Gait and stance disorders, gait mechanisms, spastic gait, cerebellar gait,
gait in

                           peripheral nerve system disorders, postural instability.

19.             Basal ganglia – structure and function

20.             Parkinsonian syndrome

21.             Dyskinesias and dystonias

22.             Spinal column – structure and function, spinal column examination, principles of

                  spinal cord manipulation.

         23.             Radicular low back pain syndromes – history, clinical sings, radicular
versus

                           pseudoradicular syndrome

24.             Disorders of consciousness, Glasgow Coma Scale, brain death

         25.             Meninges – structure and function – blood brain barrier, meningeal

                           syndrome

         26.             CSF examination, indications and contraindications of lumbar puncture

         27.             Disorders of higher cognitive functions (speech disorders, alexia,
agraphia,

                           acalculia, cognitive dysfunctions, disorders of praxia)

         28.             Intracranial hypertension, hydrocephalus

29.             Neuroimaging methods (X-ray, CAT scan, MRI, ultrasound,  SPECT, PET)

30.             Neurophysiological examination methods (EEG, conduction studies,  EMG,

                  evoked potentials)











Clinical Neurology Questions – Physiotherapy programme



1.               Ischemic stroke - diagnostic approach and treatment

2.               Brain haemorrhage - diagnostic approach and treatment

3.               Subdurál hematoma, epidural hematoma, traumatic brain haemorrhage

4.               Brain concussion and contusion

5.               Epilepsy – epilepsy classification, epileptic seizure classification, focal
seizures

6.               Generalised seizures, status epilepticus

7.               Subarachnoid hemorrhage: clinical signs, diagnostic approach and treatment

8.               Meningitis, encephalitis, brain abscess, spinal cord abscess,
neuroborreliosis

9.               Spinal cord disorders: vascular disorders, spinal cord stroke and haemorrhage,

                  syringomyelia, spinal cord stenosis myelopathy

         10.             Headaches: pathophysiology, classification, therapy, prevention,
migraine

                           treatment

11.             Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

12.             Multiple sclerosis – pathophysiology, diagnostic approach and treatment

13.             Myasthenia gravis, myasthenic syndrome (Lambert-Eaton)

         14.             Parkinson's disease: clinical signs, treatment,  atypical parkinsonian
syndromes –

      etiology, differential diagnostics

         15.             Huntington's  disease,  Sydenham chorea and other choreas

16.             Wilson's disease, essential tremor, focal and generalised dystonia

17.             Spinocerebellar ataxia, Friedreich's  ataxia, differential diagnosis of gait
disorders

         18.             Polyneuropathy and polyneuritis: pathophysiology, pathology, diagnostic
approach

      and treatment of peripheral nerve system disorders, EMG and conduction studies

      in  diagnostics of peripheral nerve system disorders.

         19.             Myopathies: congenital and acquired

20.             Hereditary  polyneuropathies (HMSN), spinal muscular atrophy, metabolic and

                  acquired polyneuropathies (diabetic, ethyltoxic)

21.             Autoimune neuropathy, AIDP - Guillain-Barré syndrome, CIDP

22.             Brachial and lumbosacral plexus lesions

23.             Entrampment syndromes – carpal tunnel, ulnar tunnel, tarsal syndrome,  syndrome of
tarsal tunnel entrampent

         24.             Dementias: diagnostic approach and treatment. Alzheimer's disease

25.             Vascular dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, dementia in  Parkinson's disease,

                  frontotemporal dementia, Creutzfeld – Jacob's disease, pseudodementia

         26.            Neuropsychology – diagnostic possibilities, rating scales, psychotherapy,

27.             Myositis, dermatomyositis, myotonia.

28.             Central nerve system tumours, brain and meningeal tumours, symptoms of

                  intracranial and intraspinal expansions

         29.             Back pain, sacroilliacal joint affections. Radicular syndromes in upper
limbs (C5-

      C8)

30.             Radicular syndromes in lower limbs (L4-S1), cauda equina and conus medullaris

                  syndromes, epiconus syndrome