Basic Neurosciences, every concept, explained free
Every Basic Neurosciences concept for MRCPsych Prep, explained free, clear mental models, exam recognition, and the look-alikes that trip people up. Your daily session is free, always.
- Classic candidate genes: SHANK3 (autism) and DRD4 (ADHD)
- Narcolepsy tetrad
- Functional MRI (fmri)
- Neurulation: neural plate to neural tube closure
- Neuroimaging in schizophrenia
- Dopaminergic pathways
- Acute intermittent porphyria: enzyme deficiency (HMBS/PBG deaminase)
- Aphasias and language localisation
- Synaptic plasticity (long-term potentiation)
- Cranial nerve lesions
- Heritability / familial risk
- CRISPR-Cas gene editing
- Anxiety disorders: classification and epidemiology
- Cerebrospinal fluid and ventricular system
- Autonomic nervous system
- Fragile X syndrome
- HIV disease markers
- Neuroimaging patterns in dementia subtypes (SPECT/MRI)
- Reticular activating system
- Prognostic predictors of outcome after traumatic brain injury
- Neuregulin and dysbindin as schizophrenia susceptibility genes
- Optogenetics
- G-protein coupled receptors and second messengers
- Pick's disease
- Locus coeruleus
- Mesolimbic dopamine pathway
- Deep brain stimulation indications
- GABA-A receptor agonism
- Hypochondriasis illness anxiety disorder
- Limbic system / amygdala
- Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
- Genetic syndrome with 20-30% increased risk of psychosis
- Parietal lobe functions
- Anton's syndrome
- Alzheimer's disease neuroimaging
- Neurotransmitter pharmacology
- Catecholamine synthesis
- Ribot's law of retrograde amnesia
- Serotonin synthesis
- Inflammatory hypothesis of depression (IL-6 and CRP)
- Cerebral arterial territories
- Thalamus and its nuclei
- CNS infections (HIV/AIDS)
- Hormone secretion sites
- Neuronal and glial cell types
- Meiosis and cell division
- Balint's syndrome
- Alzheimer's disease: course and behavioural/psychological symptoms (BPSD)
- Molecular biology basics
- Parasomnias (night terrors, nightmares, sleepwalking)
- Blood-brain barrier
- Genetic testing methods (karyotype, FISH, PCR)
- Epilepsy and seizure semiology
- Vagus nerve stimulation
- Thiamine deficiency syndromes
- Slc6 transporter gene family and monoamine oxidase-related genetics
- Genetic loci of neuropsychiatric disorders
- Genetic anticipation
- EEG activation procedure useful in diagnosis (e.g. hyperventilation/sleep deprivation)
- Caudate nucleus
- Classification of human prion diseases
- Neurotransmitter receptors
- Mutation types
- Cortisol receptor type
- Receptor target of psilocybin
- Dementia genetics
- Dementia neuropathology
- Neuroimaging modalities in psychiatry
- Hypothalamus functions
- Executive function
- Lewy body dementia
- Pain pathways and gate control theory
- Flumazenil as treatment for a specific drug toxicity
- Reward pathway (nucleus accumbens)
- Memory systems
- Autoimmune encephalitis (anti-NMDA receptor)
- Action potential and ion channels
- Transient global amnesia (TGA)
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- Hirano bodies
- Corpus callosum and split-brain
- Neurotransmitter metabolites
- Apoe4 and Alzheimer's disease
- Gestalt principles of perceptual organisation
- Recreational drug use
- Prefrontal syndromes
- Frontal lobe dysfunction
- Visual field defects
- Memantine in Alzheimer's disease
- Acetylcholine metabolism
- Post-traumatic stress disorder features
- Intelligence testing
- Monoamine metabolism (MAO)
- Frontal lobe function tests
- Wilson's disease (hepatolenticular degeneration)
- Neural correlates of empathy and interoception (insula and cingulate cortex)
- Animal models of psychiatric disorders
- Chromosomal abnormalities
- Papez circuit and emotion
- Working memory neuroanatomy
- Recurrent depressive disorder
- Receptor target of zopiclone
- Compulsion-obsession relationship
- Anatomical location of the habenula
- Bipolar mixed affective state management
- Schizophrenia endophenotypes
- Depression after traumatic brain injury
- Vascular dementia: diagnosis, course and management
- Alzheimer's disease pathology
- Gerstmann's syndrome
- Cerebellar signs
- Gene: presenilin 2 association
- Huntington's disease neuropathology
- Salience network
- EEG findings by clinical condition
- Basic synaptic neurotransmission
- Prion disease (CJD)
- Sleep architecture
- Cortical lesion signs
- Appetite-regulating hormones (leptin and ghrelin)
- Genome-wide association study
- Neuropeptides
- Circadian regulation
- EEG rhythms
- CBT for chronic fatigue and pain
- Lewy body / synucleinopathy
- HPA axis and the stress response
- Kluver-Bucy syndrome
- Epigenetics
- Hippocampal anatomy
- Classification of intellectual disability severity by IQ range
- Alzheimer's disease: epidemiology and risk
- Basal ganglia circuitry
- Histamine as a neurotransmitter
- Neuroglia functions
- Inheritance patterns
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