Attendance and successful examination in:

i. Neurophysiology and Endocrine Physiology

ii. Anatomy of Nervous System and Sensory Organs

Clinical case presentations, clinical practice

Microsoft (Power Point) software is used during the delivery of the courses.
Ability to communicate with the course supervisor via email

The course aims to introduce students to the scientific field of Neurology.

Neurology includes a wide field and the main objective is to acquire the knowledge necessary to perform a neurological examination and to become familiar with the phenomenology of neurological diseases and localized diagnostics.

It aims to acquire the knowledge, experience and skills necessary to perform a correct and complete clinical examination of the patient and to evaluate the clinical (subjective and objective) findings of the examination.

Objectives

The objectives of the course can be summarised as follows:

– To enable the student to understand the meaning, significance and structure of the background and to gain experience in the technique by which it is obtained, recorded and presented

– To learn to perform the general objective examination in a coordinated manner, to become familiar with the findings of the examination of normal subjects and to learn to recognize abnormal objective signs and their significance.

– to learn the main symptoms of the various diseases, their varieties, their pathophysiological basis and their importance in diagnosis

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:

– Understand basic principles of Neurology.

– Be familiar with the patient and gain experience in taking the history

– Be trained and gain experience in performing the neurological examination. Become familiar with the findings on examination of normal subjects and the identification of abnormal objects and their significance

– Have knowledge of the main diagnostic and therapeutic applications of neurology

– Be able to distinguish the main differences between the normal and pathological clinical picture, to describe the cause, pathogenesis, progression and treatment of the most important neurological diseases.

– Use the main diagnostic and therapeutic applications in clinical practice.

– Analyses data in conjunction with the history, clinical picture and other clinical and laboratory data of patients.

– May work with fellow students to research and analyse the international literature.

CLINICAL EXERCISE (in groups)-extended in the 9th and 10th semester

Includes: 56 HOURS

a) 14 hours of seminar lectures

b) 24 hours of skill development and examination of outpatients and inpatients in groups

c) 18 compulsory hours of on-call duty, in small groups

In the 12 hours of clinical practice in groups (skills) with a designated instructor is taught:

1.Examination of neurological patients with the assistance of the group instructor

1.1 Examination of the level of consciousness and familiarisation with the classification of disorders of consciousness

1.2 Examination of cognitive functions

1.3. examination of brain associations

1.4. Examination of mobility, sensation, reflexes

1.5. Description of pathological signs in the nervous system

Familiarisation with the phenomenology of neurological disorders

-Epilepsy

– Demyelinating diseases

– Senses

– Brain tumours

– Infections of the nervous system

– Vascular strokes

– Headache and other cranial pains

– Neuromuscular diseases

-Extrapyramidal diseases and movement disorders

-spinal cord diseases

2.Demonstrate the technological equipment and briefly explain its use

3.Patient examinations (history taking, complete neurological examination) with the participation of the students, step by step

4.Observation of electroencephalography and neurophysiological testing – electromyography

5.Training on how to manage a neurological emergency

Suggested books :

1. DeJong’s NEYPOΛOΓIKH EΞETAΣH

ΣYΓΓPAΦEAΣ : William Campbell,  Richard J. Barohn

2. Neurology Logothetis, 5th Edition ,Logothetis Ionannis, Mylonas Ioannis

Other suggested bibliography:

1. Neurology (2016) D.Vasilopoulos, Athens, Pasxalidis P,
2. I. Wilkinson, G. Lennox (2009)Basic Neurology, A.Papadimitriou, Athens, Parisianos Α.Ε.
3. A. Ropper, M. A. Samuels, et J. P. Klein (2014) Adams and Victor’s Principles of Neurology, 10th Edition, MC Graw -Hill Education.
4. S. Hauser (2013) Harrison’s Neurology in Clinical Medicine, 3rdEdition McGraw-Hill Education.