Neuro Activities

• List some of the conditions that can commonly cause gait problems.
• Discuss your approach to a patient presenting with abnormal gait.
• Understand how different gait patterns can help localize the potential cause of abnormal gait.
• Classify common movement disorders (bradykinetic/akinetic vs. hyperkinetic).
• Describe your approach to evaluating a patient with a movement disorder, with focus on tremor.
• Describe the pathophysiology of febrile seizures, its prognosis, and how it should be managed.
• Differentiate between complex and simple febrile seizures.
• Identify the function of the lobes of the brain.
• Develop an approach to the assessment of cognitive complaints.
• Differentiate between types of dementia.
• Understand the classification of primary and secondary brain neoplasms.
• Learn the characteristics of two common primary brain neoplasms: glioblastomas and meningiomas.
• Identify the features and management of metastases to the brain parenchyma, and leptomeninges.
• Understand the pathophysiology of brain ischemia.
• Learn to recognize large artery stroke syndromes, and lacunar stroke syndromes.
• Develop an approach to acute ischemic stroke and haemorrhage management.
• Identify the work-up and secondary prevention of ischemic strokes and haemorrhages.