| Page | Contents |
|---|---|
| 04.01 | Headaches |
| 04.02 | Neurodegenerative disorders • Vascular dementia • Alzheimer's dementia • Lewy body dementia • Frontotemporal lobar dementia • Delirium |
| 04.03 | Neurodegenerative disorders • Parkinson's disease • Parkinson-plus disorders • Motor neuron disease • Huntington disease |
| 04.04 | Infections • Bacterial & viral meningitis • Encephalitis • Brain & spinal epidural abscesses |
| 04.05 | Infections • Specific infxns: toxoplasmosis, primary CNS lymphoma, cryptococcosis, PML • Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) • CSF interpretation table |
| 04.06 | Epilepsy / seizures • Seizures, incl status epilepticus • Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures • Anticonvulsants / antiepileptics |
| 04.07 | • Syncope • Brain tumours • Brain lesions localisation (smx) |
| 04.08 | Strokes • TIA & ischaemic stroke - Classifications by arteries, smx • Haemorrhagic stroke |
| 04.09 | Brain bleeds • Subarachnoid haemorrhage • Subdural & extradural haemorrhage • Cerebral aneurysm |
| 04.10 | Weakness DDx |
| 04.11 | Neuroinflammatory disorders • Multiple sclerosis • Guillain Barre syndrome • Chronic inflammatory demyelinating (poly)neuropathy • Myasthenia gravis |
| 04.12 | • CT head – indications • Head injury (incl concussions) • Intracranial pressure – ↑ & ↓ |
| 04.13 | • Spinal disorders - Brown-sequard syndrome - Subacute combined degeneration - Friedrich's ataxia - Anterior spinal artery occlusion - Syringomyelia - Tabes dorsalis • Neurofibromatosis • Tuberous sclerosis |
| 04.14 | • Restless legs syndrome • Abnormal involuntary movements • DVLA rules for neurological disorders • Aphasia DDx • Wernicke's encephalopathy • Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome |
