Neurology exam (Dentistry students): list of questions


A. General Neurology

1.         Motor system (anatomy, function, classification of disorders, types of pareses)

2.         Somato-sensory system (anatomy, function, classification of disorders) – (except pain)

3.         Pain (anatomy, characteristics, types of pain)

4.         Peripheral nervous system (anatomy, function, classification of disorders, localisation
of lesions)

5.         Cranial nerves I-II (anatomy, function, signs and symptoms of lesion)

6.         Cranial nerves III, IV, VI (anatomy, function, signs and symptoms of lesion)

7.         Cranial nerve V (anatomy, function, signs and symptoms of lesion)

8.         Cranial nerve VII (anatomy, function, signs and symptoms of lesion)

9.         Cranial nerve VIII, vestibular syndrome (anatomy, function, signs and symptoms of
lesion)

10.       Cranial nerves IX-XII (anatomy, function, signs and symptoms of lesion)

11.       Speech and language disorders (aphasia, aphonia, dysarthria, agraphia, alexia).

12.       Focal brain syndromes (frontal, pericentral, temporal, parietal, occipital)

13.       Syndrome of internal capsule and cerebellopontine angle

14.       Spinal cord lesion syndromes (hemisection, transversal lesion, central gray matter
syndrome, posterior and lateral funicular syndromes)

15.       Intracranial hypertension, hypotension (symptoms, causes of disorders)

16.       Meningeal syndrome (symptoms, causes of disorders)

17.       Autonomic nervous system and its disorders

18.       Imaging methods in neurology

19.       EMG, EEG and evoked potentials in neurology

20.       Cerebrospinal fluid examination. Lumbar puncture


B. Special Neurology

1.         Epilepsy: epileptic seizures and syndromes

2.         Epilepsy: diagnosis of epileptic sydromes (medical history, objective description of the
seizure, clinical neurological examination, EEG and other auxiliary tests), differential
diagnostics (nonepileptic seizures)

3.         Epilepsy treatment (pharmacotherapy, recommeded lifestyle changes and rules, surgery)

4.         Syncope, Menier syndrome

5.         Sleep disorders (sleep apnea syndrome, parasomnias, insomnia, narcolepsy, hypersomnia)

6.        Spondylogennic disorders (definition, incidence, imaging methods, etiology, prevention,
therapy)

7.        Clinical syndromes related to cervical and thoracic spine (segmental, pseudoradicular,
radicular, cervical/ thoracic myelopathy).

8.        Back pain syndromes related to lumbar spine (segmental, pseudoradicular, radicular).

9.         Cerebrovascular diseases (classification, characteristics)

10.       Ischemic stroke (classification, etiology, syndromes of occlusion of cerebral arteries)

11.       Intracerebral haemorrhage (etiology, treatment)

12.       Subarachnoid haemorrhage (etiology, treatment)

13.       Cerebral venous thrombosis

14.       Traumatic lesions of the brain - classification

15.       Commotio cerebri (cerebral concussion) and contusio cerebri (cerebral contusion)

16.       Intracranial traumatic haemorrhage (epidural, subdural, cerebral)

17.       Opened brain injuries (penetrating, frontobasal and temporobasal injury, carotid
cavernous fistula, posttraumatic inflammatory complications)
18.       Traumatic injuries of the spine and spinal cord

19        Neuropathies (definition, classification, etiology)

20.       Polyneuropathies (causes, diagnosis, treatment)

21.       Guillain-Barré syndrome

22.       The most frequent mononeuropathies in upper extremities - lesions of the median, radial
and ulnar nerve)

23.       The most frequent mononeuropathies in lower extremities (lesions of the ischiadic,
peroneal tibial, and femoral nerves)

24.       Plexopathies - lesions of the brachial and lumbosacral plexus

25.       Radiculopathy L4, L5 and S1

26.       Epiconus, conus and cauda equina syndrome

27.       Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

28.       Bacterial meningitis and brain abscess, including tuberculosis

29.       Neurosyphylis, Lyme disease. HIV infection (AIDS) from the neurological perspective

30.      Viral meningitis, encephalitis and myelitis (tick encefalitis, herpetic encephalitis,
parainfectio

31.       Prion diseases: Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease, others (new variant JCD,
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease)

32.       Tumours of the brain and spinal cord and their therapy

33.       Headache (definition, classification)

34.       Migraine (pathophysiology, diagnostics, treatment), cluster headache

35.       Trigeminal and glossopharyngeal neuralgias

36.       Multiple sclerosis

37.       Hyperkinesia and dystonia

38.       Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonian syndromes (vascular, MSA, PSP, CBD)

39.       Muscular dystrophies

40.       Neuromuscular junction disorders (Myasthenia gravis, Lambert-Eaton syndrome),
inflammatory myopathies

41.       Toxic and nutritional disorders of nervous system (associated with vitamins deficiency or
excess – B1, B2, B12; ethanol, Wernicke´s encephalopathy, central pontine myelinolysis)

42.        Diseases of facial nerve

43.        Diseases of oculomotor nerves

44.        Spinal cord compression (spondylogennic, tumor, epidural hematoma, epidural abscess,
traumatic)

45.       Cerebral palsy

46.       Disorders of consciousness – classification, causes, brain death

47.       Normal pressure hydrocephalus, benign intracranial hypertension

48.       Dementia – definition, classification, diagnosis, treatment)