Dentistry Neurology

Year, Semester: 5th year/1st semester.

Number of teaching hours: lecture: 10, practical: 10.

Credit: 1

Dentistry Educational Advisor:

• Assistant Lecturer Ms. Krisztina Csapó M.D.
• deputy: Assistant Lecturer Tamás Árokszállási M.D.

Lectures:

• 1st week: Meningeal signs. Examination of cerebrospinal fluid, meningitis, causes of increased cell number and protein content, interpretation of bloody CSF. Infectious diseases of central nervous system.
• 2nd week: Anatomy and examination of cranial nerves I-XII, I: temporal epilepsy; II: visual field defects, papillaoedema; III-IV-VI: gaze disturbances, diplopia, anisocoria, pathway of pupilla reflex, hemianopic pupillary reaction, cortical blindness.
• 3rd week: Anatomy and examination of cranial nerves I-XII, V: everything; VII: central and peripheral facial palsy, ageusia, innervation of salivatory glands, herpes zoster geniculi; VIII: peripheral and central type of dizziness, tinnitus, Bell's palsy.
• 4th week: Anatomy and examination of cranial nerves I-XII, IX-X: glossopharyngeus neuralgia, dysphagia, dysarthria; XI: torticollis; XII: central and peripheral hypoglossus lesion. Bulbar and pseudobulbar signs. Torticollis.
• 5th week: Motor system, -power -muscle tone -involuntary movements. Epilepsy.
• 6th week: Sensory system, -disturbance of deep sensation -disturbance of superficial sensation. Tumors of the nervous system.
• 7th week: Reflexes, -physiological reflexes, -pathological reflexes, -pyramidal signs -primitive reflexes. Autoimmune diseases of nervous system.
• 8th week: Coordination. Trauma of central nervous system.
• 9th week: Aphasias (sensory, motor), Gnostic functions, apraxias (anosognosia, dressing apraxia). Stroke
• 10th week: Headache, facial pain.

Material for students: available at elearning.med.unideb.hu.

Requirements:

• Prerequisites of taking the subject: Organ and Oral Pathology, Neurobiology, Internal Medicine II.
• There is one lecture and one seminar every week in the first ten weeks of the 1st semester.

Exam:

• Material covered in the lectures are asked at exams.
• After the end of the lectures and seminars, before the beginning of exam period, there is prefinal exam (test exam, four possible answers, one correct). Material covered in the lectures and seminars is asked. The 'prefinal test is not the 'A' exam. Offered grades can be: 'passed', 'satisfactory', 'good' and 'excellent'. Offered grades must be accepted in the Neptun until the end of the following week (after the date of the prefinal). If the offered grade is not accepted the student will have to take the exam.
• At the end of the semester all students should pass a written exam (test exam, four possible answers, one answer is correct). Places for exams are opened every week during exam period. Students have to register on Neptun for the exam. Without registration the exam cannot be taken. The first exam is the 'A' chance, the second exam is the 'B' chance, both are written (test) exams.
• ‘C’ chance: If somebody failed 'A' and 'B' chance the third possibility is the 'C' chance, which is oral exam at the respective group tutor. In this case the student has to agree an appointment with the group tutor.
• Grade improvement is possible once, in this case registration in the Neptun is necessary for an unoccupied exam place. Grade improvement will not be considered as 'B' chance. Please note that the result of the grade improvement exam is the final grade.
• Lecture book will be signed after successful written exam by the Head of the department.

List of textbooks:

• Mumenthaler: Neurology. 2004.