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Course code: VVSS00317f12
Semester: 2012/2013 summer
Name: Neuropathology and Clinical Neurology
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 8
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Dr n. wet. Marcin Wrzosek
Language of instruction: Polish


Learning outcomes: Clinical neurology: Ability of diagnostic and therapeutic approach to the neurological patient. Ability of different neurological syndromes recognition. Performing of the differential diagnostics with the ability of the most proper diagnostic method application, for the neurological disease confirmation and usage of the most appropriate therapeutic method. Introduction to Neuropathology is constructed for the beginning student in Veterinary Neuropathology, to introduce new scientific information on mechanisms of general injury into the language of medicine. The basic concepts of Neuropathology are integrated into clinical medicine. Chapters on cellular brain degeneration, infective cns inflammation, prion diseases, senile changes, vascular changes, oedema cerebri, encephalopathy and neoplasia include the latest in new scientific information of gross and microscopic brain pathology.

Competences: Students after finishing the course are gaining theoretical and practical knowledge of clinical neurology and neuropathology

Prerequisites: anatomy, physiology of the nervous system in domestic animals, physiology, general pathology, pathophysiology

Course content: Clinical neurology: Presentation of the method of neurological status assessment upon the healthy animals and patient witch neurological disease. Self-learning of the neurological examination performance, discussions about the choosing of the most appropriate diagnostic method, application of the additional and specialistic examination methods in veterinary neurology. Self-learning of the x-ray, myelography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging description, interpretation and clinical application. Description, interpretation and clinical application of the electrodiagnostic method in veterinary neurology. Performing, analysis and interpretation of the cerebro-spinal fluid punction. Neuropathological part contains theoretical knowledge of histology, histopathology of CNS, infectious diseases, pion diseases, senile changes of the brain, brain oedema, encephalopathy. Student gain practical knowledge about pathological brain section, examination of the nervous tissue.

Recommended literature: 1. Platt, Olby, BSAVA manual od canine and feline neurology. Third edition, 2004. 2.Furr, Reed, Equine neurology, Blackwell Publishing2008. 3.Dewey. Practical guide to canine and feline neurology, Iowa State Press, 2003. 4.DeLahunta, Glass, Veterinary Neuroanatomy and clinical neurology, Saunders, Elsevier, third edition, 2009. 5. Mayhew, Large Animal Neurology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. 6.Sołtysiak Z. : Badania porównawcze nad amyloidozą- i zwyrodnieniem neurowłókienkowym (ZNW) w ośrodkowym układzie nerwowym (OUN) różnych gatunków starych zwierząt i ludzi z chorobą Alzheimera, Wrocław 2000r., Zeszyty Naukowe A.R. nr 372, str 1-149. 7.Wiśniewski H.,Węgiel J.,Bancher C.,Sołtysiak Z.,Kim K. S.: Aged dogs : an animal model tu study beta-protein amyloidogenesis 151-168,1990 in Maurer K.Riederer P.,Beckmann H. (ads) Alzheimers Disease Epidemiology, Neuropathology, Neurochemistry and Clinics Springer-Verlag Wien-New York, New-York-Wien, 1990. 8.Węgiel J.,Wiśniewski H.M.,Dziewiątkowski J.,Tarnawski M.,Dziewiątkowska A.,Sołtysiak Z.,Kim K.S.: Fibrillar and non-fibrillar amyloid in the brain of aged dogs. 703-708,1995 in Iqbal K.,Mortimer J.A.,Winblad B.,Wiśniewski H.M.: Research advance in Alzheime`s disease and related disorders 1995, John Wiley & Sons.Ltd: 9.Sołtysiak Z., Wrzosek M., Nowak M., Gajda M., Kajdasz S. : Monkey brain as a model for Alzheimer’s pathology. Med. Wet. vol. 61 (7), 721-840, 2005 p. 756-760 10.Wrzosek M., Zawadzki M., Glińska K., Nicpoń J. : Usage of gabapentin for the therapy of cluster seizures in epileptic dogs. Med. Wet. vol. 62 (6), 601-728, 2006 p. 669-673. 11.Wrzosek M., Nicpoń J., Bergamasco L., Sammartano F., Cizinauskas S., Jaggy A. Visual and quantitative electroencephalographic analysis of healthy young and adult cats under medetomidine sedation. The Veterinary Journal, 2009 May;180(2):221-30. Epub 2008 Mar 7. 12.Wrzosek M., Konar M., Vandevelde M., Oevermann A. Cerebral extension of steroid responsive meningitis arteritis in a boxer. Case Report , Journal of Small Animal Practice. 2009 Jan;50(1):35-7. 13.Wrzosek M., Glińska K., Nicpoń J.: Diagnostic and treatment of seizures of dogs and cats – new trends”, 2/2005, Mag. Wet., p. 41-46 14.Wrzosek M., Nicpoń J.: Technique of cerebro-spinal fluid collection”, Mag. Wet., 6/2005, p.54-56 15.Wrzosek M., Nicpoń J.: „Clinical aspects of neuromuscular diseases in dogs and cats“. Mag. Wet., 11/2005, p.14-16. 16.Wrzosek M., Janeczek A., Submissive urination in animals – behavioral and neurological aspects. Weterynaria w Praktyce 5/2006, p.4-7. 17.Summers A.B.,Cummings J.F.,de Lahunta A.; Veterinary Neuropathology, Mosby St. Louis 1995.

Assessment methods: Written test

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