Neurology Curriculum 2010 (with 2013 amendments) item Review Article Case Report Title

1. General and Professional Content

1.1 History Taking
Understand the differences between open and closed questioning. Allen 2013 How I start a new patient consultation

Communicate this verbally or in writing and in summary form.

Be aware of the possible influence of, and sensitively include questions
about, socio-economic status, household poverty, employment status
and social capital in taking a medical history.

Appropriate use of an interpreter for patients & families when English is

not their first language.
Be aware of one’s own behaviour and how it might impact on patients’
health issues.
1.2 Neurological Examination
A thorough working knowledge of neuroanatomy.
Able to undertake an appropriate, focussed and comprehensive Stone 2001 Hoover’s Sign
examination of mental and physical state and communicate this verbally
or in writing and in summary form.
Rossor 2001 Snouting, Pouting and Rooting
Van Gijn 2002 The Babinski Sign
Sandercock 2002 The Carotid Bruit
Pinto 2003 A Short History of the Reflex Hammer
Harvey 2004 Harvey’s 1 and 2
Hilton-Jones 2004 Beevor’s Sign
Josephs 2004 The Alien Limb
Lueck 2005 Nystagmus
Turner 2006 Visually-evoked rooting, a fascinating primitive
reflex
Kennard 2007 Examine eye movements
Anderson 2010 The forearm and finger rolling tests
Apok 2011 Dermatomes and dogma
Gates 2011 Work out where the problem is in the brainstem
using ‘the rule of 4’
Warburton 2011 Dermatological clues to neurological diagnoses
 Stark 2013 Clinical testing of visual fields using a laser pointer
and a wall
van Ballegoij 2015 The menace reflex
Evans 2016 Putting pontine anatomy into clinical practice: the
16 syndrome
Kiernan 2016 The Babinski sign
Schott 2016
The palmomental reflex: stop scratching around!
Turner 2016 Romberg's test no longer stands up
Ellul 2017 Aterixis
Fuller 2017 End the cult of cotton wool
Use of chaperone where appropriate, respect for patient’s personal
dignity.
Adopt assessments and interventions that are inclusive, respectful of
diversity and patient-centred.
1.3 Communication Skills
Use of a Dictaphone, discharge summaries, legibility of case notes.
Ability to negotiate with patients, relatives and fellow healthcare
professionals.
Consideration and time shown to those with visual and auditory
impairments.
Communicate effectively with patients from diverse backgrounds and
those with special communication needs, such as the need for
interpreters, etc.
Able to communicate effectively with the patient, their family and carers Fuller 2003 Metaphors and Analogies In Neurology: From
and other staff in relation to the individual needs of the patient and with Kerplunk to Dripping Taps
appropriate regard for confidentiality. Individual cultural, religious &
educational parameters must be taken into consideration.

Able to give a prognosis, to explain the patient’s condition, to break bad Coebergh 2014 ‘Undiagnosing’ neurological disease: how to do it,
news, to obtain full and informed consent for investigations and and when not to
treatment.
Able to inform concerning patient support groups and relevant charities.

Able to summarise clinical case in a coherent manner to clinical Davenport 2011 Write a clinical letter
colleagues.
1.4 Differential Diagnosis, Investigation and Initial Management
Understanding of the roles and usefulness of investigations including
neuroimaging and neurophysiology.
Able to formulate an appropriately ordered differential diagnosis based Ward 2008 Better questions, less uneasy answers
on an appreciation of the patient, their past history and current
problems and their likely causes.
Consideration given for different racial, social & ethnic groups.
Adopt assessments and interventions that are inclusive, respectful of Johnston 2004 Neurological Disease at 30 000 Feet –What is an
diversity and patient-centred. Acceptable Risk for your Pilot?
Seal 2014 Using an Option Grid in shared decision making

Able to plan and order appropriate observations, liaise with members of Dani 2013 Rare neurological diseases: a practical approach
the MDT, determine and prescribe immediate treatment, seek to management
appropriate opinions and interventions and with others, develop an
overall plan for the individual patient.
Demonstrate leadership skills including mentorship of junior medical
colleagues.
1.5 Personal qualities
Identify own strengths, limitations and the impact of their behaviour and
is able to change their behaviour in light of feedback and reflection

Demonstrates different methods of obtaining feedback.

Awareness of the trainee’s own values and principles and how these
may differ from those of other individuals and groups.
The importance of best practice transparency and consistency.
Maintain and routinely practice critical self awareness, including being
able to discuss strengths and weaknesses with supervisor and
recognising external influences and changing behaviour accordingly.

Use assessment, appraisal, complaints and other feedback to discuss and

develop an understanding of own development needs.

Identify own strengths and weaknesses.

Organise and manage workload effectively and flexibly.
Recognising and showing respect for diversity and differences in others.
Shows commitment to continuing professional development which
involves seeking training and self development opportunities, learning
from colleagues and accepting criticism.
1.6 Working with others
Adopt a team approach, acknowledging and appreciating efforts,
contributions and compromises. Continue to recognise the common
purpose of the team and respect their decisions
Knowledge of the roles and importance of different members of the
MDT.
Enable individuals, groups and agencies to implement plans and make
decisions.
Assessment and appraisal of more junior clinical colleagues or students.

Build and maintain relationships by listening, supporting others, gaining

trust and showing understanding.
Shown willingness to act as a leader, mentor, educator and role model. Morrish 2009 It’s all in the history (a continuing story)

Allen 2012 Teaching clinical neurology

Wiles 2013 Introducing neurological examination for medical
undergraduates—how I do it
Russell 2013 The ‘Attack of the Demyelinator’
Showing recognition of a team approach, respecting colleagues, Mumford 2013 When worlds collide: the uncomfortable romance
including non-medical professionals. between law and neurology
Perry 2013 When worlds collide: comments from a barrister

Norris 2015 Should medicolegal medicine be part of the

medical school curriculum?
Respect diversity of status and values in patients and colleagues.

1.7 Managing Services

Support team members to develop their roles and responsibilities and Mumford 2010 The dark side: a year as clinical director (or
continue to review performance of the team members to ensure that ‘medical management without coronary spasm…’)
planned service outcomes are met

Demonstrate knowledge of relevant legislation and HR policies.

Show knowledge of the duties, rights and responsibilities of an employer
and co-worker.
Demonstrates knowledge of individual performance review.
Understand the roles, competences and capabilities of other
professionals and support workers.
Understand the role of audit (improving patient care and services, risk
management etc).
Understand the steps involved in completing the audit cycle.
Continue to contribute towards staff development and training,
including mentoring, supervision and appraisal.
Able to write a job description, including person specification and short
listing criteria.
Contribute to the development of an organisational response to
emerging health policy.
Commitment to good communication whilst also inspiring confidence
and trust.
Manage resources: know what resources are available and use influence Greene 2009 Reflections on management
to ensure that resources are used efficiently and safely.

Manage people: providing direction, reviewing performance and

motivating others.
Manage performance: hold oneself and others accountable for service
outcomes.
1.8 Improving Services
Ensure patient safety at all times, continue to encourage innovation and Larner 2011 Teleneurology: an overview of current status
facilitate transformation
Demonstrate knowledge of risk management issues and risk Stone 2008 Morbidity and mortality meetings for neurologists
management tools.
Demonstrates understanding of how healthcare governance influences
patient care.
Demonstrates knowledge of a variety of methodologies for developing Flower 2015 How to write a neurology newsletter
creative solutions to improving services.
Brizzi 2015 The value of a weekly newsletter in neurology

Wardle 2016 How to set up a clinical database

Recall principles of risk assessment and management.
Identify risk management guidance e.g. safe prescribing, sharps disposal,
needlestick injury.
Reports clinical incidents.
Be able to assess and manage risk to patients.
Monitors the quality of equipment and safety of the environment
relevant to the specialty.
Ensure the correct and safe use of medical equipment, ensuring faulty
equipment is reported appropriately.
Questions existing practice in order to improve the services.
Seeks advice and or assistance whenever concerned about patient
safety.
Supports colleagues to voice new ideas and is open minded to new
thoughts.
1.9 Setting Direction
Is able to identify the contexts for change and is able to make decisions

The ability to discuss the local, national and UK health priorities and how
they impact on the delivery of health care relevant to the specialty.

Is able to run committee meetings and work collegiately and

collaboratively with a wide range of people outside the immediate
clinical setting.
Willingness to articulate strategic ideas and use effective influencing
skills.
Willingness to participate in decision making processes beyond the
immediate clinical care setting.
Apply knowledge and evidence: gathering information to produce an
evidence-based challenge to systems and processes in order to identify
opportunities for service improvements.
Make decisions: integrating values with evidence to inform decisions.

1.10 Clinical Pharmacology of Neurological Disorders

Principles of neuro-pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Understand principles of treatment especially vascular disease, migraine,
epilepsy, pain, psychiatric disorders, movement disorders, multiple
sclerosis, autoimmune disorders, infections, dementia, motor neuron
disease.
Understand limitations: compliance, adverse effects, interactions, cost
implications. Vahdani 2016 Topiramate-induced acute glaucoma
Able to plan and administer pharmacological treatments safely and Pritchard 2001 Intravenous Immunoglobulin – How to use it
effectively.
Able to refer to local and national guidelines (NICE) and sources of Chadwick 2009 NICE and neurology
evidence and information about treatments.
Understand information needs of patients and others. Manford 2014 Using Option Grids: a referee's commentary
Utilise reporting mechanisms for adverse events, both within an
organisation and to national bodies.
1.11 Presentation Skills, Audit and Quality Improvement
An understanding of the importance and processes of audit. Carroll 2015 Auditing adult first seizure assessments
Understands the differences between audit and quality improvement

Understands steps involved in completing a quality improvement project

(which may include audit)
Ability to give a range of oral presentations with the use of appropriate Fathers 2014 How to give a talk
audio-visual aids including Powerpoint presentations. Presentations may
involve clinical cases, audits or research papers.

Ability to instigate and collate an audit project. Husain 2015 How to write a successful grant or fellowship
application
Describes measurement for improvement Weir 2004 Measuring and Improving the Quality of Care

Recognises and commits to the culture of continuous improvement in

clinical practice to promote safe and high quality care

Recognise how health systems can discriminate against patients from

diverse backgrounds, and how to work to minimise this discrimination.
For example, in respect of age, gender, race, culture, disability,
spirituality, religion and sexuality

1.12 Special Interest Groups: Women & Pregnancy

Understand the effects of menarche, menstrual cycle and menopause on Zanette 2014 Periodic thigh pain from radicular endometriosis
common neurological disorders.
Knowledge of methods of contraception, failure rate and interaction
with drugs (especially antiepileptic drugs); teratogenic risks of commonly
prescribed drugs and genetic risks of neurological diseases;
presymptomatic/prenatal diagnosis of neurological conditions;
psychosexual dysfunction
Understand the effect of pregnancy on existing neurological disorders Lim 2014 Postpartum headache: diagnostic considerations
and neurological disorders as complications of pregnancy.

O'Neal 2016 Stroke in pregnancy: a case-oriented review

Knowledge of the neonatal complications in offspring of affected women Pearce 2014 Can I treat this pregnant patient with botulinum
with neurological conditions; effects of drugs on pregnancy (foetus and toxin?
mother) and pregnancy on drugs.
Ability to evaluate, diagnose and manage women with neurological Jackson 2006 Epilepsy in women: a practical guide to
disease. management
Adherence to national guidelines (e.g. NICE guidelines for epilepsy,
British National Formulary etc.
1.13 Special Interest Groups: Teenagers
Knowledge of neurological disorders presenting in adolescence. Giles 2004 Adolescent Neurology

Knowledge of childhood neurological disorders presenting in early

adulthood.
Understand the special needs of teenagers, particular issues of
confidentiality, and transition disorders.
1.14 Special Interest Groups: Elderly
Understand the normal clinical and radiological findings in the elderly; Voermans 2007 Why old people fall (and how to stop them)
special presentations of neurological disease, diagnosis, investigation
and management of dementia; effects of drugs in the elderly; hospital
based & community services; communication with relatives and care
agencies; role of COTE.
Understand the specific issues of the Mental Capacity Act in relation to
this patient group.
1.15 Special Interest Groups: Learning Disabilities
Understanding of the common causes of learning disabilities and the
different presentation of symptoms in this group.
Recognise the stigmatising effects of some illnesses and work to help in
overcoming stigma.
Understand the needs of patients with special educational needs with Bradley 2012 How to get the most from a consultation with a
neurological disorders. Understand the specific issues of the Mental person who has a learning disability
Capacity Act in relation to this patient group.

1.16 Special Interest Groups: Terminally Ill

Understand end of life issues in neurological disorders and the role of Langley 2003 How Changing the Law can Improve Human Rights
palliative care services and specialist nurses; ethical and legal aspects of at the End of Life
terminal care.
Kerrigan 2010 Advance planning in end-of-life care: legal and
ethical considerations for neurologists
Neurology Curriculum 2010 (with 2013 amendments) item Review Article Case Report Title
2. Major Topics within Neurology Curriculum
2.1 Head Injury
Knowledge of symptoms and signs of head injury and its complications; Anderson 2006 Concussion and mild head injury
indications for investigations; indications for medical interventions, ITU
referral, urgent and delayed neurosurgery.

van Dijk 2011 The bare essentials: Head injury

Sharp 2015 Concussion is confusing us all
Ability to evaluate and manage people with acute head injury: perform Kolias 2013 Traumatic brain injury in adults
immediate resuscitative measures; formulate a strategy for immediate
and short term management; primary and secondary effects of head
injury.
Ability to evaluate and manage post traumatic change in consciousness, Smith 2012 Seizures after head injury
behaviour and cognition, and other post-traumatic symptoms (including
epilepsy).
2.2 Headache
Knowledge of the clinical features, differential diagnosis and specific Matharu 2001 Cluster Headache
pharmacological and general treatment of the causes of headache and
facial pain.
Goadsby 2002 Low CSF Volume (Pressure) Headache
Gladstone 2004 Acute Migraine: Which Triptan?
Davenport 2005 Sudden onset headache
Evers 2005 Hypnic Headache
Frese 2005 Primary headache syndromes associated with
sexual activity
Dodick 2007 Migraine prevention
Weatherall 2007 Chronic daily headache
Davenport 2008 THE BARE ESSENTIALS: Headache
Mistry 2009 Thunderclap headache
Larner 2009 Not all morning headaches are due to brain
tumours
 Angus-Leppan 2013 Migraine: mimics, borderlands and chameleons

Nicholl 2014 Subarachnoid haemorrhage: the canary in the

mine, or the elephant in the room?
Sinclair 2015 Headache management: pharmacological
approaches
Alim-Marvasti 2016 Trigeminal autonomic cephalgia caused by
recurrent posterior scleritis
Miller 2016 Neurostimulation in the treatment of primary
headaches
Nesbitt 2016
Migraine with brainstem aura presenting as
recurrent hypersomnia (Kleine-Levin syndrome)
Simpson 2016 Weightlifter's headache
An understanding of the role of relevant investigations: brain scanning,
urgent blood tests, lumbar puncture.
2.3 Disorders of Consciousness
Knowledge of anatomy and physiology of consciousness, and the Zeman 2002 The Persistent Vegetative State: Conscious of
pathophysiology of disorders of consciousness; definitions, causes, Nothing?
pathophysiology, clinical features and prognosis of permanent
vegetative state, locked in state and brainstem death.

Wijdicks 2010 The Bare Essentials: Coma

Howard 2011 Hypoxic-ischaemic brain injury
Wijdicks 2012 Four eponyms in coma
An understanding of the legal issues relating to disorders of Howe 2006 The persistent vegetative state, treatment
consciousness. withdrawal, and the Hillsborough disaster:
Airedale NHS Trust v Bland
Wade 2014 Patients with prolonged disorders of
consciousness: more than a clinical challenge

Use of tests for brainstem death. Cameron 2016 Confirmation of brainstem death
Development of interpersonal skills for relating to management of the
family of people with disorders of consciousness.

2.4 Disorders of Sleep

Knowledge of narcolepsy, daytime hypersomnolence, parasomnias, Douglas 2003 The Obstructive Sleep Apnoea/Hypopnoea
obstructive sleep apnoea, effects of neurological conditions on sleep; Syndrome
indications, scope and limitations of the sleep laboratory; principles of
physical and pharmacological treatment.

Berkovic 2002 Sleep Neurology - A Wakeup Call for Neurologists

Reading 2007 Parasomnias: the spectrum of things that go

bump in the night
Lisk 2009 Kleine–Levin syndrome
Reading 2010 The bare essentials: Sleep disorders in neurology

Walker 2010 The dark night

Leschziner 2014 Narcolepsy: a clinical review
Derry 2014 Sleeping in fits and starts: a practical guide to
distinguishing nocturnal epilepsy from sleep
disorders
Cheng 2017 Sleep apnoea and the neurologist
An understanding of the effects of sleep on the EEG.
Knowledge of driving regulations and the consequences and
complications of sleep disorders.
2.5 Disorders of Higher Function & Behaviour
An understanding of memory, language, visuospatial function & Neary 2002 Sorting out the Dementias
behaviour; definition and epidemiology of dementia; pathology and
clinical features of individual dementias; investigations, treatments,
genetic aspects, risks and costs of investigations; role of
neuropsychological evaluation
Ability to evaluate and manage people with disordered higher function & Waldemar 2002 Reversible Dementias – do they Exist?
behaviour.
Neary 2003 Sorting Out Subacute Encephalopathy
de Leeuw 2003 Vascular Dementia
Pujol 2003 Psychogenic Amnesia
Merrison 2003 Cognitive Decline, Behavioural Disturbance and
Motor Dysfunction in a Young Adult
Lamont 2004 Cognitive Decline in a Young Adult with Pre-
Existent Developmental Delay – What the Adult
Neurologist Needs to Know
 Yapici 2004 Not Just a Child With Simple Learning Disability:
Beware the Opercular Syndrome
Knibb 2005 Semantic Dementia: Losing the Meaning of
Everything
Gawler 2006 A “glioma” that was cured
Schott 2006 Limbic encephalitis: a clinician’s guide
Corey-Bloom 2006 Managing patients with Alzheimer’s disease

McKeith 2007 Dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson’s

disease with dementia: where two worlds collide

Kester 2009 Dementia: THE BARE ESSENTIALS

Rodrigues 2010 The groom who could not say “I do”
Carson 2010 Managing acute behavioural disturbance in a
neurology ward
Mitchell 2010 Do CSF biomarkers help clinicians predict the
progression of mild cognitive impairment to
dementia?
Murray 2011 Creutzfeldt–Jacob disease mimics, or how to sort
out the subacute encephalopathy patient

Ahmad 2011 Seronegative limbic encephalitis: case report,

literature review and proposed treatment
algorithm
Dean 2012 End of the bed (end of the video) diagnosis
Lee 2012 Autoantibody testing in encephalopathies
Budson 2012 New diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's disease
and mild cognitive impairment for the practical
neurologist
Schott 2012 Alzheimer's disease: mimics and chameleons

Irani 2013 Organic neuropsychiatry: a treatable cause of

suicidal behaviour
Mortimer 2013 Neuroimaging in dementia: a practical guide

Wilkinson 2013 Neuroimaging in transient global amnesia

 Larner 2014 Neurological signs of possible diagnostic value in
the cognitive disorders clinic
Pennington 2015 Functional cognitive disorder: what is it and what
to do about it?
Beh 2015 Hiding in plain sight: a closer look at posterior
cortical atrophy
Slattery 2015 Phenotypical variation in Alzheimer's disease:
insights from posterior cortical atrophy

Cope 2015 The functional anatomy of central auditory

processing
Cassidy 2016 The clinical assessment of apraxia
Li 2015 Spatial neglect
Scott 2016 Clinicopathological case: rapid cognitive decline in
an older man
Devenney 2017 The Mini-Mental State Examination: pitfalls and
limitations
Evaluation of competency (e.g. Mental Capacity Act, enduring power of
attorney).
2.6 Epilepsy and Loss of Consciousness
Knowledge of the differential diagnosis of paroxysmal and transient Smith 2008 THE BARE ESSENTIALS: Epilepsy
events
Smith 2012 Epilepsy: mimics, borderland and chameleons

Powell 2012 Acute symptomatic seizures

Chowdhury 2015 Focal inhibitory seizures: a cause of recurrent
transient weakness
Scope and limitations of investigations Rees 2005 What to do With the Patient Who Has Had a Fit
and the Scan Shows a ‘Glioma’?
Benbadis 2007 Misdiagnosis of epilepsy due to errors in EEG
interpretation
Leach 2008 Overuse of the EEG
Marsh 2008 The humble electrocardiogram
Jones 2015 Autonomic function testing: an important
diagnostic test for patients with syncope
Use of anti-epileptic drugs Leach 2001 New Antiepileptic Drugs Revolution or Marketing
Spin?
 Jackson 2005 Choice of Antiepileptic Drug, Which One to Try
First and What to Do if it Fails ...
Schoeler 2016 Ketogenic dietary therapies in adults with
epilepsy: a practical guide
Sisodiya 2017 Temporary replacements for oral epilepsy
treatments
Bank 2017 What to do when patients with epilepsy cannot
take their usual oral medications
Treatment of refractory seizures; serial seizures and status epilepticus Kelso 2005 Status epilepticus

Cosgrove 2013 Hemiatrophy and seizures: a case of adult-onset

Rasmussen encephalitis
Murray 2006 A young man with bilateral epilepsia intractable
and partialis continua
Jones 2014 A protocol for the inhospital emergency drug
management of convulsive status epilepticus in
adults
Flower 2015 Status epilepticus caused by an unusual
encephalopathy
Role of epilepsy surgery Butler 2004 Epilepsy Surgery
Awareness of issues related to women and pregnancy, driving, vocation Craig 2009 Treating women with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
and sudden death; psychological and social consequences of epilepsy
especially teenagers.
Thomas 2009 “Can I drive, doctor?” LEAN thinking may help us
answer the question
Zeman 2009 When a patient with epilepsy complains about
poor memory
Leach 2012 SUDEP discussions with patients and families

Leach 2015 Death in pregnancy: a call for neurological action

Mc lean 2017 Sudden unexpected death in epilepsy: measures

to reduce risk
Knowledge and management of other causes of loss of consciousness Chadwick 2010 Life and death diagnosis
including syncope, drop attacks and vaso-vagal episodes.
 Smith 2011 Transient loss of consciousness (‘blackouts’) in
adults and young people (NICE)

Fox 2015 An unusual cause of seizures

Davis 2015 Curious turns in the night-time
Jones 2016
Clinical challenges in the diagnosis and
management of postural tachycardia syndrome
Knowledge, recognition and management of non-epileptic seizures. Plug 2009 Making the diagnosis in patients with blackouts:
it’s all in the history
Warren-Gash 2003 Déjà vu
Ability to evaluate and manage people with epilepsy. McGonigal 2004 Frontal Lobe Epilepsy: Seizure Semiology and
Presurgical Evaluation
Fuller 2005 Silent Witnesses in the Diagnosis of Epilepsy

Butler 2006 Transient epileptic amnesia

Rogers 2008 “This house believes that only general
practitioners with a specialist interest in epilepsy
should be treating the condition”
Leach 2009 When the antiepileptic drugs are not working

Miller 2010 Reading epilepsy

Nicolson 2010 When the first antiepileptic drug fails in a patient
with juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
Catarino 2010 A fitful night's sleep
Brennan 2013 Bilateral neck of femur fractures secondary to
seizure
Herskovitz 2013 Periventricular heterotopias with incomplete
agenesis of corpus callosum and prolonged focal
seizures
Likeman 2013 Imaging in epilepsy
Malek 2015 The progressive myoclonic epilepsies
Dixit 2016 When the face says it all: dysmorphology in
identifying syndromic causes of epilepsy
Galtrey 2016 Stress and epilepsy: fact or fiction, and what can
we do about it?
Smith 2016 Telephone review for people with epilepsy
 Braksick 2017 Steak and Stupor: seizures and E. coli O157
infection
Recognise that people can be denied employment opportunities Prevett 2013 Epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa
unnecessarily through myths, stigma, dogma and insufficient advocacy
and support; be aware of the role of doctors and other services in
combating this inequality.
2.7 Cerebrovascular Disease
Knowledge of the cerebral circulation and its determinants; Fernandes 2013 Strokes: mimics and chameleons
pathophysiology of cerebral infarction, cerebral haemorrhage,
subarachnoid haemorrhage, cerebral venous thrombosis and vascular
dementia.
Fearnley 2002 Superficial Siderosis of the Central Nervous
System
Arnold 2005 Carotid and Vertebral Artery Dissection
O'Sullivan 2008 Leukoaraiosis
Cordonnier 2010 Brain microbleeds
O'Sullivan 2011 South Wales Joint Neuroscience Meeting,
Bridgend, 29 April 2010: a 66-year-old man who
suddenly couldn't drive
Datta 2015 Severe MRI-visible perivascular spaces due to
cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Knowledge of the epidemiology, risk factors and their management; Greaves 2002 Thrombophilia

Bamford 2003 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere!

Mas 2003 Patent Foramen Ovale and Stroke
Razvi 2004 Cerebral Autosomal Dominant Arteriopathy With
Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy
(CADASIL)
Hinze 2015 Longitudinally extensive spinal cord infarction in
CADASIL
Salman 2007 Stroke due to a cardiac myxoma
Nieuwkamp 2010 Multiple intracerebral haematomas during normal
intensity anticoagulation
Jung 2010 Cerebral air embolism caused by a bronchogenic
cyst
Stokes 2011 Gesundheit! Sneezing, paraesthesiae and ataxia in
a 35-year-old man
 Samarasekera 2012 Shot in the foot
Norby 2016 Laying on the cause of stroke?
Witherick 2016 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation-related
brain haemorrhages
features of stroke /TIA, ICH and venous thrombosis; Hankey 2001 Rubeosis Iridis
Ferro 2003 Cerebral Venous and Dural Sinus Thrombosis

Cordonnier 2008 Stroke: THE BARE ESSENTIALS

Hankey 2008 When the patient fails to respond to treatment:
TIAs that go on, and on
Abdulkarim 2011 Multiple retinal emboli in a case of acute stroke

Emsley 2012 When stopping the antiplatelet drugs stopped the

‘TIAs’
Coates 2015 Cerebral amyloid angiopathy: amyloid spells and
cortical superficial siderosis
Booij 2012 Stroke mimicking conversion disorder: two young
women who put our feet back on the ground

Liolios 2013 Lessons from everyday practice: septic cavernous

sinus thrombosis due to sphenoid sinusitis in a
young patient following a road traffic accident

Labiano-Fontcuberta Paraplegia after epidural anaesthesia

2013
Nadarajan 2014 Transient ischaemic attacks: mimics and
chameleons
Cruz 2014 Unilateral lingual paralysis after isolated unilateral
infarction in the primary motor cortex

Vale 2014 A tonsillomedullary stroke causing supranuclear

lingual paresis
Powell 2014 A chamber of secrets The neurology of the
thalamus: lessons from acute stroke
 Wilson 2014 Spontaneous limb movements and posturing
secondary to acute basilar artery occlusion: a
potentially devastating seizure mimic

Littleton 2015 Recurrent amaurosis fugax and hemichorea: limb-

shaking TIA
López-Blanco 2015 Sudden asymmetric bilateral ptosis as stroke
onset
McKenna 2016 Intracranial bleeding from collaterals following
carotid artery occlusion
Yap 2016 Auditory hallucination in basilar occlusion: I heard
it was the basilar
Kane 2016 Ischaemic stroke in a 21-year-old with hereditary
haemorrhagic telangiectasia
Lim 2016 Stroke-like migraine attack after cranial radiation
therapy: the SMART syndrome
Punter 2016 Transient focal leukoencephalopathy with
cerebral oedema as a presentation of cerebral
amyloid angiopathy
Rutter-Locher 2016 Sneddon's syndrome: it is all in the ectoderm
Jiad 2017 When the heart rules the head: ischaemic stroke
and intracerebral haemorrhage complicating
infective endocarditis
Neo 2017
Collet-Sicard syndrome: a rare but important
presentation of internal jugular vein thrombosis
investigation and management of acute stroke (including thrombolysis) Kay 2001 Anticoagulation for Acute Ischaemic Stroke?
and TIA as medical emergencies
Hand 2001 CT for Acute Ischaemic Stroke
Gubitz 2002 The NINDS trial of Thrombolysis in Acute
Ischaemic Stroke
Sprigg 2005 Management of Blood Pressure in Acute Stroke

Norrving 2008 Lacunar infarcts: no black holes in the brain are

benign
Cohen 2011 Stroke thrombolysis in Mombasa—an outreach
service
 Anderson 2015 Venous thromboembolic event prevention in
acute stroke: update on evidence and
recommendations
Hofmeijer 2015 Antithrombotic treatment and intracerebral
haemorrhage: between Scylla and Charybdis

The role of secondary prevention and surgical interventions Sudlow 2002 Antiplatelet Drugs in the Secondary Prevention of
Stroke
armitage 2003 Cholesterol Lowering for the Prevention of Stroke

Rothwell 2005 With What to Treat Which Patient with Recently

Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis
Warlow 2005 Carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid
stenosis - firming up on the uncertaintly

Brown 2008 Should carotid stenting replace carotid

endarterectomy in routine clinical practice?
Sudlow 2008 Preventing further vascular events after a stroke
or transient ischaemic attack: an update on
medical management
Rafiq 2014 Cerebral hyperperfusion syndrome
Werring 2015 Emergency stenting for acute symptomatic
carotid stenosis: dissecting the evidence
Korya 2015 Carotid artery dissection treated with stenting
after anticoagulation failure
An understanding of the role and limitation of imaging (e.g. CTA, DWI); Renowden 2013 Normal vascular imaging
role of evaluation scales.
Renowden 2014 Imaging in stroke and vascular disease—part 1:
ischaemic stroke
Renowden 2014 Review: Imaging of the cerebello-pontine angle

Kenmuir 2014 Hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign

Cerebral aneurysm and AVM; interventional, surgical and radiotherapy White 2004 Cerebral Malaria
treatment.
Sellar 2005 The Management of Ruptured Cerebral
Aneurysms: Life After ISAT
 Al-Shahi 2005 The Prognosis and Treatment of Arteriovenous
Malformations of the Brain
Wilson 2008 Intracranial dural arterio-venous fistula
Rinkel 2009 Prevention and treatment of medical and
neurological complications in patients with
aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage
Lim 2014 When a bruise is not just a bruise
Maekawa 2014 Takotsubo cardiomyopathy following
subarachnoid haemorrhage
Khan 2015 Large basilar tip aneurysm causing anterior
internuclear ophthalmoplegia
Multidisciplinary stroke care, organisation of stroke units, nutrition after Benlidayi 2014 Hemiplegic shoulder pain: a common clinical
stroke, rehabilitation techniques, community stroke care. consequence of stroke

Ability to evaluate and manage people with stroke disease Hughes 2013 Chameleons, confusion, and the Clinical Historian

Bousser 2003 In a Worsening Situation, Treatment can do More

Good than Harm
Ability to assess suitability and safely administer intravenous
thrombolysis for patients with acute ischaemic stroke
2.8 Tumours of the NS, Neurological Complications of Systemic Cancer, Complications of Treatment of Cancer
Bradley 2013 Brain tumour mimics and chameleons
Neuropathological classification of brain tumours Donaghy 2002 Shrinking Cerebral Lymphomas with Steroids can
Cause Diagnostic Confusion
Abbasi 2014 A mystery solved
Hardy 2015 A longitudinally extensive myelopathy in a patient
with AIDS
Bittar 2015 Corticosteroid sensitivity in gliomatosis cerebri
delays diagnosis
Clinical features of the common tumours of the nervous system Davenport 2001 Missed Convexity Meningioma
including malignant meningitis.
Heckmann 2006 An “isodense” (on CT) meningioma
Witherick 2016 Shrinking meningioma
Connor 2007 Vanishing diplopia: a problem case
Ahmed 2013 Rapidly progressive dementia and ataxia in an
elderly man
 Schulz 2009 A difficult case solved at autopsy: memory loss,
behavioural change and seizures
Rees 2010 The bare essentials: Neuro-oncology
Miller 2011 Recurrent subarachnoid haemorrhage
Iqbal 2012 Multiple cranial neuropathies: one diagnostic
difficulty
Kerrigan 2012 Low-grade brain tumours and seizures
Osborne 2014 Rapid-onset flaccid paraplegia caused by multiple
myeloma dumbbell tumour
Kaski 2014 Epley and beyond: an update on treating
positional vertigo

Primary diffuse leptomeningeal gliomatosis

Louapre 2015 diagnosed on CSF cytology: perseverance pays off
Clinical features and immunology of paraneoplastic syndromes Grant 2002 What the General Neurologist needs to know
about the Paraneoplastic Syndromes
Schulz 2007 Anti-Hu syndrome: a rare presentation and a very
difficult decision
Hirst 2007 Clear cell carcinoma of the kidney in a young man
with neurological complications
Gozzard 2010 Which antibody and which cancer in which
paraneoplastic syndromes?
Sahu 2011 The opsoclonus–myoclonus syndrome
Nitkunan 2013 Midbrain encephalitis associated with neoplasia

Archer 2014 Mesothelioma and anti-Ma paraneoplastic

syndrome; heterogeneity in immunogenic
tumours increases
Garcia-Reitboeck 2014 Upbeat nystagmus in anti-Ma2 encephalitis
Waddell 2014 Progressive cognitive decline and neuropathy in a
sailor
Cope 2016 Anti-collapsin response mediator protein 5
encephalitis masquerading as a low-grade brain
tumour
Cruz 2016 Alternating faciobrachial dystonic seizures in LGI1-
antibody limbic encephalitis
Benefits and risks of therapies including surgery and radiotherapy Wickremaratchi 2004 Three Strokes and a Heart Attack in a Fit and
Relatively Young Woman
Neurological complications of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Understanding the role of the neuro-oncology MDT.
Ability to evaluate and manage people with primary tumours of the NS Milburn-McNulty 2012 How to do it: How to get the most out of
or effects of systemic tumours or their treatment. cerebrospinal fluid cytology
Parker 2014 A misleading case of CSF cytology: a cautionary
tale
2.9 Infections of Nervous System
Principles of neurological infectious disease; clinical features of these Warrell 2001 Rabies Encephalitis and its Prophylaxis
diseases and their causes (including meningitis, encephalitis, TB, HIV,
neurosyphilis).
Shah 2004 … At Least in Scotland
Thwaites 2002 The Diagnosis and Management of Tuberculous
Meningitis
Hayat 2015 Multifocal tuberculous osteomyelitis
Thwaites 2002 Tetanus
Doshi 2014 Just a graze? Cephalic tetanus presenting as a
stroke mimic
Bill 2003 Schistosomiasis and the Nervous System
Howard 2003 Late Post-Polio Functional Deterioration
Connor 2007 Immune or not immune: two cases of acute
flaccid motor paralysis
Carr 2003 Neurosyphilis
Proudfoot 2013 Old adversaries, modern mistakes: neurosyphilis

Mignarri 2014 Temporal lobe abnormalities in neurosyphilis

Day 2004 Cryptococcal Meningitis

Wijdicks 2004 Excruciating Headache but Nothing Obvious, Look
at the Skin!
Czyz 2013 Isolated, complete paralytic mydriasis secondary
to herpes zoster ophthalmicus
Gunatilake 2004 Leprosy
Huda 2013 An unusual cause of mononeuritis multiplex
White 2004 How to Manage the Patient With a Family History
of Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage

Wokke 2004 Neuroborreliosis

Williams 2008 An exotic cause for confusion in the garden
Murphy 2012 A case of acute neurogenic weakness mimicking
the axonal variant of the Guillain-Barré syndrome

Li 2015 Lyme disease presenting as multiple ischaemic

strokes
Sieradzan 2005 Wound Botulism
Joseph 2005 The Bath Advanced Neurology Course 2003:
Progressive Neurological Decline in Pregnancy

Kennedy 2005 Sleeping sickness – human African

trypanosomiasis
Kennedy 2010 Neurological influences from Africa
Torok 2005 Human immunodeficiency virus associated central
nervous system infections
Webb 2012 Hypereosinophilia and acute bilateral facial palsy:
an unusual presentation of a common disease

Nightingale 2013 Test them all; an easily diagnosed and readily

treatable cause of dementia with life-threatening
consequences if missed
Cooper 2009 Assess and interpret the visual fields at the
bedside
Singhal 2006 Non-compressive myelopathy with one error of
omission and two of commission
Vilensky 2006 Encephalitis lethargica: could this disease be
recognised if the epidemic recurred?
Garcia 2006 Neurocysticercosis: some of the essentials
Knight 2009 Traveller’s headache
Dhesi 2015 Imaging in neurocysticercosis
Solomon 2007 Viral encephalitis: a clinician’s guide
Moragas-Garrido 2013 Seizure, dysphasia, blindness and amnesia; what's
the connection?
Davies 2012 Encephalitis: help from guidelines
Schmutzhard 2007 Eosinophilic myelitis, a souvenir from South East
Asia
Ginsberg 2008 Chronic and recurrent meningitis
Williams 2016 IgG4-related disease: a rare but treatable cause of
refractory intracranial hypertension

Rice 2016 Intracranial spread of IgG4-related disease via

skull base foramina
Panegyres 2008 Diagnosis and management of Whipple’s disease
of the brain
Prasad 2008 Fatal subacute necrotising brainstem encephalitis
in a young man due to a rare parasitic
(Balamuthia) infection
Schut 2008 Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in
adults
Narayan 2009 Isolated cerebral aspergilloma in a young
immunocompetent patient
Hayton 2012 Successful outcome of Epstein–Barr virus
encephalitis managed with bilateral craniectomy,
corticosteroids and aciclovir
McCarthy 2012 Acute cerebellar ataxia due to Epstein–Barr virus

Abbs 2012 Listeria rhomboencephalitis

Karunaratne 2016 The right diagnosis but the wrong pathway?
Listeria meningitis mimicking stroke
Weeratunga 2014 Spontaneously resolving cerebellar syndrome as a
sequelae of dengue viral infection: a case series
from Sri Lanka
Merwick 2015 Intradural extramedullary spinal candida infection

Osborne 2016 Toscana virus encephalitis following a holiday in

Sicily
Llewelyn 2016 Meningitis: from Kernig and Brudzinski to the 21st
century
Milburn 2016 Progressive weakness and intermittent low-grade
fever in a Libyan man
 Nihat 2016 Rheumatoid meningitis
Zarkali 2017 CD8+ encephalitis: a severe but treatable HIV-
related acute encephalopathy
Diagnostic techniques and their appropriate use; anti-microbial therapies
and their use; the importance of liaison with infectious disease
physicians, microbiologists, public health and occupational health
medicine in relation to neurological infections.

Knowledge of prion disorders and its wider implications, such as Lowman 2001 Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
infection control risk.
Will 2010 Variant CJD: where has it gone, or has it?
Collie 2002 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Pal 2011 31st Advanced Clinical Neurology Course,
Edinburgh 2009: progressive cognitive
impairment, behavioural change and upper motor
neuron signs in a 57-year-old woman
Hornabrook 2006 Early descriptions of kuru: instinct, insects and
intellect
Beernink 2016 Capnocytophaga canimorsus meningitis
diagnosed by 16S rRNA PCR
Based on an understanding of risk, be able to apply epidemiological
principles and public health approaches so as to reduce and prevent
disease and improve the health of populations.

2.10 CSF Disorders

CSF composition and dynamics; anatomy and radiology of the ventricular
system;
genesis of hydrocephalus; Malm 2006 Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus
Conn 2007 Normal pressure hydrocephalus: new
complications and concepts
Thawani 2014 Colloid cyst of the third ventricle
Fink 2015 Colloid cyst
biochemistry and immunology of CSF; blood brain barrier; Benz 2009 When a clear crystal makes a case crystal clear

indications, techniques, and contraindications of CSF examination. van Gijn 2005 Investigate the CSF in a patient with sudden
headache and a normal CT brain scan
Methods of intracranial pressure monitoring; treatments of raised
intracranial pressure, management of shunts.
Able to evaluate and manage people with disorders of CSF including Jellinek 2002 Myodil arachnoiditis: Iatrongenic and forensic
diagnostic and therapeutic lumbar punctures. illness
Lueck 2002 Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension
Suetterlin 2014 When is ‘idiopathic intracranial hypertension’ no
longer idiopathic?
Mollan 2014 A practical approach to, diagnosis, assessment
and management of idiopathic intracranial
hypertension
Newman 2011 Thinking outside of the box
Mattsson 2013 Coagulation of cerebrospinal fluid—the
Nonne–Froin sign
Rice 2013 Spontaneous intracranial hypotension and venous
sinus thrombosis
Webb 2015 Superficial siderosis following spontaneous
intracranial hypotension
Lagrand 2015 Sagging brain causing postural loss of
consciousness: a case of severe spontaneous
intracranial hypotension
Stephen 2016 Complicated spontaneous intracranial
hypotension treated with intrathecal saline
infusion
Davis 2016 Atraumatic needles for lumbar puncture: why
haven't neurologists changed?
Tyagi 2016 Management of spontaneous intracranial
hypotension
Williams 2017 How to do it: bedside ultrasound to assist lumbar
puncture
2.11 Demyelination & Vasculitis
Biology of demyelination & vasculitis; clinical features of multiple Rucker 2004 Visual and Eye Movement Problems in Multiple
sclerosis, Sclerosis
Hutchinson 2009 Predicting and preventing the future: actively
managing multiple sclerosis
Coles 2009 Multiple sclerosis: THE BARE ESSENTIALS
Lin 2012 The genetics of multiple sclerosis
 Jenkins 2014 Multiple sclerosis presenting as a relapsing
amnestic syndrome
related demyelinating disorders Al-Shahi 2002 A Young Man with a Fatal Encephalopathy
Williams 2003 Confusion and Ataxia in a Middle Age Woman: A
Case with Four Diagnoses Discussed at the
Edinburgh Advanced Clinical Neurology Course in
2001
Fialho 2002 A Blinding Headache Falling on Deaf Ears (Susac’s
Syndrome)
Ramadan 2012 Susac's syndrome
Dayal 2015 Looking out for the blind spot
Akman-Demir 2002 Neuro-Behçet’s Disease: a Practical Approach to
Diagnosis and Treatment
Baker 2011 Pathergy test
Jenkins 2005 A Dysphasic Diabetic with Confusion and Fever

Joseph 2007 Sarcoidosis of the nervous system

Sabah 2011 Cavernous sinus syndrome with pachymeningitis

Shenoy 2015 Corticosteroid-resistant bulbar neurosarcoidosis

responsive to intravenous immunoglobulin

Jacob 2006 Neuromyelitis optica

Chhetri 2012 The unfolding tale of an unusual brain stem
syndrome
Hewett 2008 A devilishly interesting case
Brownlee 2014 An elderly woman with leg weakness
Matthews 2009 The borderland of neuromyelitis optica
Zhao 2015 An unusual case of 'itchy paralysis’: neuromyelitis
optica presenting with severe neuropathic itch

Palace 2012 A practical guide to the treatment of

neuromyelitis optica
Hamid 2015 Tonic spasms and short myelitis in an elderly
woman—unique onset of neuromyelitis optica
 Biotti 2011 CLIPPERS: Chronic Lymphocytic Inflammation with
Pontine Perivascular Enhancement Responsive to
Steroids
Wong 2013 ‘Blindness cured!’: long-standing visual loss
responding to corticosteroids
Bargiela 2014 An under-recognised cause of spastic paraparesis
in middle-aged women
Broadfoot 2015 Paraneoplastic tumefactive demyelination with
underlying combined germ cell cancer
Milic 2017 Acute demyelination following radiotherapy for
glioma: a cautionary tale
Joshi 2017 Neuromyelitis optica presenting as acute bilateral
ptosis
vasculitic and arteritic disorders. Joseph 2002 Cerebral Vasculitis: A Practical Approach
Bhattacharyya 2016 Primary angiitis of the central nervous system:
avoiding misdiagnosis and missed diagnosis of a
rare disease
Coles 2004 Looks Like Multiple Sclerosis, but the Ana is
Positive: Does My Patient Have Lupus?
Joseph 2010 Neurolupus
Irani 2006 Relapsing “encephalo” polychondritis
Bock 2005 Vertebral artery halo sign in giant cell arteritis

Thomas 2006 Visual loss when treating giant cell arteritis

Brownlee 2013 A pain in the neck
Mitchell 2014 Giant cell arteritis presenting with bilateral orbital
inflammatory disease and enhancing superficial
temporal arteries
Saadi 2016 Tongue infarction due to giant cell arteritis
Hilton-Jones 2007 A young man with rapidly progressive multifocal
disease affecting the white matter

Shah 2011 An evolving case of headaches and strokes

Ducros 2009 Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome

Miteff 2006 Idiopathic reversible segmental cerebral

vasoconstriction
 Wiles 2015 Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome: a
rare cause of postpartum headache

Maxwell 2012 Neuro-Sweet's disease

Iqbal 2013 Wegener's granulomatosis presenting with
multiple cranial nerve palsies and pachymeningitis

Berkowitz 2014 The neurology of Sjögren's syndrome and the

rheumatology of peripheral neuropathy and
myelitis
Paling 2010 A treatable cause for a painful movement
disorder
Management of specific impairments and disabilities arising in MS; role Connick 2011 Stem cells as a resource for regenerative
of disease modifying drugs, symptomatic treatments and therapies. neurology

Fox 2002 Cannabis for Multiple Sclerosis

Warlow 2003 Not Such a Bright Idea: The Uk Risk-Sharing
Scheme for Beta Interferon and Glatiramer
Acetate in Multiple Sclerosis
Duddy 2016 The UK Risk-Sharing Scheme for interferon-beta
and glatiramer acetate in multiple sclerosis.
Outcome of the year-6 analysis
Coles 2005 Can the course of multiple sclerosis be modified?

Gold 2006 Multiple sclerosis therapy: new agents carry new

risks
Rice 2014 Disease modification in multiple sclerosis: an
update
Scolding 2015 Association of British Neurologists: revised (2015)
guidelines for prescribing disease-modifying
treatments in multiple sclerosis
Sloan 2009 Greater trochanteric pain syndrome, another
cause of hip or thigh pain in multiple sclerosis

Dobson 2013 Bone health in chronic neurological diseases: a

focus on multiple sclerosis and parkinsonian
syndromes
 Fragoso 2014 Recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of
depression in patients with multiple sclerosis

Giovannoni 2016 Switching patients at high risk of PML from

natalizumab to another disease-modifying
therapy
Use of disability rating scales.
Ability to evaluate & manage people with demyelinating & vasculitic Fuller 2001 WHAT SHOULD I TELL A PATIENT AFTER AN
disorders. ISOLATED EPISODE OF DEMYELINATION?
Chataway 2010 When confronted by a patient with the
radiologically isolated syndrome
Ciccarelli 2002 Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis

Mumford 2002 Can Trauma Provoke Multiple Sclerosis?

Renowden 2014 Review: Imaging in multiple sclerosis and related
disorders
Tallantyre 2016 How to run a multiple sclerosis relapse clinic

A practical review of the neuropathology and

Matthews 2016 neuroimaging of multiple sclerosis
2.12 The Neurological Complications of Immunosuppression
Principles of immune responses in relation to the NS; immunological Kelly 2014 PCP prophylaxis with use of corticosteroids by
basis underlying auto-immune neurological disease; clinical features of neurologists
these diseases; diagnostic techniques and their appropriate use.

Immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapies; their actions, Compston 2004 Management of Glucocorticoid-Induced
side effects and indications. Osteoporosis – for Neurologists
Ability to evaluate and manage people with immunological disorders Martino 2007 Are antibasal ganglia antibodies important, and
caused by disease or treatment. clinically useful?
Hadavi 2011 Stiff person syndrome
Lockman 2007 Stiff-person syndrome
Selvarajah 2012 Histiocytosis for the neurologist: a case of
Erdheim–Chester disease
Stern 2014 Glycine receptor antibody mediated Progressive
Encephalomyelitis with Rigidity and Myoclonus
(PERM): a rare but treatable neurological
syndrome
 Jabbari 2015 Longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis: a
rare association with common variable
immunodeficiency
2.13 Parkinsonism & Movement Disorders
Clinical features and differential diagnosis of parkinsonism, Ali 2015 Parkinson's disease: chameleons and mimics
chorea/athetosis, dystonia, tics and tremor;
Hyman 2004 Botulinum Toxin for Focal Dystonia
Lin 2006 Focal hand dystonia
Zeman 2004 Neuroacanthocytosis
Sokolov 2012 Chorea-acanthocytosis
Lindahl 2005 Startles, jumps, falls and fits
Taylor 2006 Is it Parkinson’s disease, and if not, what is it?

Hawkes 2006 Predicting Parkinson’s disease: worthwhile but

are we there yet?
Nahab 2007 Essential tremor, deceptively simple …
Warren 2007 Progressive supranuclear palsy
Wild 2007 The differential diagnosis of chorea
Jellinek 2008 Not Parkinson’s disease: neurologists’ mistakes
with a diversion into adult hydrocephalus

van Rootselaar 2009 The paroxysmal dyskinesias

Malek 2015 Diagnosing dopamine-responsive dystonias
Gallagher 2010 Two in the hand, an essential lesson in tremor
management
Fuller 2010 The Bare Essentials: Hyperkinetic movement
disorders: shakes, jumps and jolts

Lees 2010 The bare essentials: Parkinson's disease

Rickards 2010 Tourette's syndrome and other tic disorders
Saifee 2011 Tardive movement disorders: a practical approach

Jones 2011 Orthostatic tremor

Keogh 2011 An unusual gait following the discovery of a new
disease
Aerts 2012 Improving the diagnostic accuracy in
parkinsonism: a three-pronged approach
 Lozsadi 2012 Myoclonus: a pragmatic approach
Roper 2013 How to use the entrainment test in the diagnosis
of functional tremor
Patel 2015 Hemichorea–hemiballism: a case report
role of investigations in diagnosis (including DAT scans). Healy 2008 Test for LRRK2 mutations in patients with
Parkinson’s disease
Levi 2015 Bilateral Parkinsonism: when to image?
Role of neurosurgical interventions. Thevathasan 2010 Deep brain stimulation for movement disorders

Ability to evaluate and manage people with Parkinsonism and Hanagasi 2002 Management of the Neuropsychiatric and
Movement Disorders; Treatment (and complications of treatment) of Cognitive Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease
movement disorders
Todorova 2014 Non-motor Parkinson's: integral to motor
Parkinson's, yet often neglected
Lees 2002 Apomorphine for Parkinson’s Disease
Lennox 2002 Fluctuations in Parkinson’s Disease
Chaudhuri 2003 The restless legs syndrome: Time to recognize a
very common movement disorder

Davie 2005 First-line Treatment in Parkinson’s Disease

Kesler 2006 Visual disturbances in Parkinson’s disease
Playfer 2007 Ageing and Parkinson’s disease
O'Sullivan 2007 Punding in Parkinson’s disease
Brady 2015 Impulse control disorder manifesting as hidden
sexual self-injury
Poewe 2008 When a Parkinson’s disease patient starts to
hallucinate
Vlaar 2011 The treatment of early Parkinson's disease:
levodopa rehabilitated
Morrish 2012 Prescribing in Parkinson's disease: a story of hope
and adverse events
Worth 2015 Results of the early stage PD MED study:
revelation or recapitulation?
Burn 2013 Mild cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease:
millstone or milestone?
 Worth 2013 When the going gets tough: how to select
patients with Parkinson's disease for advanced
therapies
Dobson 2013 Bone health in chronic neurological diseases: a
focus on multiple sclerosis and parkinsonian
syndromes
Okuma 2014 Practical approach to freezing of gait in
Parkinson's disease
Gregory 2015 Parkinson's disease and the skin
Wu 2015 Management of orthostatic hypotension in
patients with Parkinson's disease
Alty 2016 What to do when people with Parkinson's disease
cannot take their usual oral medications

Marion 2016
British Neurotoxin Network recommendations for
managing cervical dystonia in patients with a poor
response to botulinum toxin
Ability to liaise with other members of MDT (e.g. PD specialist nurse). Post 2011 Multidisciplinary care for Parkinson's disease: not
if, but how!
2.14 Motor Neuron Disease
Clinical features and differential diagnosis of motor neuron syndromes; Talbot 2009 Motor neuron disease: THE BARE ESSENTIALS
disease modifying and symptomatic treatments (e.g. NIV).

Turner 2013 Mimics and chameleons in motor neurone

disease
Turner 2003 Riluzole and Motor Neurone Disease
Talbot 2004 Monmelic Amyotrophy Hirayama’s Dissease
Baek 2007 ALS: pitfalls in the diagnosis
Rafiq 2012 Respiratory management of motor neurone
disease: a review of current practice and new
developments
Turner 2012 Motor neurone disease is a clinical diagnosis

Fernandes 2015 Progressive hemiparesis in a 75-year-old man

Stavroulakis 2016 Enteral feeding in neurological disorders

Special issues of breaking bad news and prognosis; palliative care Oliver 2002 Palliative Care for Motor Neurone Disease
aspects; knowledge of advanced directives and living wills.
2.15 Toxic & Metabolic States
Biochemistry and neuropathology of exposure to alcohol and other Norrving 2003 An Enigmatic Encephalopathy
recreational drugs , heavy metals, pesticides and therapeutic agents;
clinical features of alcohol, cocaine, opiate, amphetamine neurotoxicity;
of heavy metal, CO, NO and organophosphate poisoning; of
chemotherapeutic agents; Psychiatric morbidity associated with
substance abuse.
Achaibar 2007 Ciguatera poisoning
Bhatia 2008 Putaminal necrosis due to methanol toxicity

Singh 2013 Methanol toxicity presenting as haemorrhagic

putaminal necrosis and optic atrophy

Roth 2011 The posterior reversible encephalopathy

syndrome: what's certain, what's new?
Rinaldi 2011 A dizzy and disorientated DJ
Welch 2011 Neurological complications of alcohol and misuse
of drugs
Derry 2012 Encephalopathy in a 45-year-old woman:
presented at the Advanced Clinical Neurology
Course, Edinburgh 2010
Blackburn 2013 Trigeminal neuralgia: no laughing matter
Chancellor 2013 A bitter-sweet tale from the land of milk and
honey
Cosgrove 2013 Migration of intraocular silicone oil into the brain

Iniesta 2013 Methyl iodide rhombencephalopathy: clinico-

radiological features of a preventable, potentially
fatal industrial accident

Bhat 2014 Corpus callosum fibre disruption in

Marchiafava–Bignami disease
Gooneratne 2014 Toxic encephalopathy due to colchicine—Gloriosa
superba poisoning
 Kinzel 2015 Toxic cerebellar syndrome due to methotrexate

Ward 2015 Acute cerebellar syndrome associated with

metronidazole
Thompson 2015 Whippits, nitrous oxide and the dangers of legal
highs
Benzimra 2015 Sight-threatening pseudotumour cerebri
associated with excess vitamin A supplementation

Nehlig 2016 Effects of coffee/caffeine on brain health and

disease: What should I tell my patients?

Bourke 2016 A taxing case

Neurological presentations of renal & hepatic failure, nutritional Samuels 2003 The Neurology of Anaemia
deficiencies and porphyria.
Peters 2006 Porphyria for the neurologist: the bare essentials

Swash 2007 And Lord Brain said …

Turner 2009 Functional vitamin B12 deficiency
Pal 2009 Progressive unsteadiness in a 68-year-old man
with longstanding abdominal pain and altered
bowel habit
Murphy 2009 Dry beriberi mimicking the Guillain–Barré
syndrome
Miller 2010 Essential thrombocythaemia and its neurological
complications
Mullin 2012 Cerebral vasospasm and anterior circulation
stroke secondary to an exacerbation of hereditary
corproporphyria
Balestrini 2016 Safe use of perampanel in a carrier of variegate
porphyria
Dobson 2016 The difficulties with vitamin B12
Lachmann 2016
Homocysteine and methylmalonate: when should
I measure them and what do they mean?
 Bashford 2017 Remarkable motor recovery after riboflavin
therapy in adult-onset Brown—Vialetto—Van
Laere syndrome
Role and value of blood and urine toxicology, imaging and Mistry 2009 When to consider thyroid dysfunction in the
neurophysiology; assessment of other organ damage neurology clinic
Carvalho 2009 An error of self-diagnosis—but what was the real
diagnosis?
Clinical features and management of hyper/hypo-thermia, sodium, Clarke 2006 Neurology at high altitude
potassium, calcium and acid base disorders.
Biotti 2009 A trident in the brain, central pontine myelinolysis

Donnelly 2016 Central pontine myelinolysis secondary to

hyperglycaemia
Ability to evaluate and manage people with metabolic/toxic states. Evans 2011 Neurogastroentrology: an A to Z

Parkinson 2014 When the penny drops

Litwin 2015 Sunflower cataract: do not forget Wilson's disease

Blair 2015 Urea cycle disorders: a life-threatening yet

treatable cause of metabolic encephalopathy in
adults
Tohge 2016 A case of cystinuria presenting with cerebellar
ataxia and dementia
2.16 Disorders of the Visual System
Applied anatomy and physiology of the visual and oculomotor systems; Molyneux 2010 Migraine, an open and shut case?
clinical evaluation of the eye and adnexae, vision (acuity, fields and
higher function); clinical features and conditions which may affect these
systems.
Williams 2005 The Tilted Disc Syndrome
Parry-Jones 2008 Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy associated
with multiple sclerosis: Harding’s syndrome

Cooper 2009 The neurology of HTLV-1 infection

Arbabi 2010 Drusen and the misleading optic disc
Lueck 2010 Loss of vision
Dobson 2011 Melanoma associated retinopathy and how to
understand the electroretinogram
 Hickman 2011 The bare essentials: Neuro-ophthalmology
McGowan 2011 The Pulfrich phenomenon; clumsiness and
collisions which can be ameliorated
Mehta 2012 The pharmacological treatment of acquired
nystagmus
Cooper 2012 Higher visual function: hats, wives and
disconnections
Cooper 2016 Here, there and everywhere: higher visual
function and the dorsal visual stream
Milazzo 2013 Diffuse multiple sclerosis and chronic central
serous chorioretinopathy: pitfall not to ignore

Ali 2015 Parkinson's disease: chameleons and mimics

Attawan 2015 The natural history of idiopathic neuroretinitis

Prasad 2015 Ectopia lentis in Marfan's syndrome causing

positional visual symptoms
Osman 2016 ‘The worm that got away’: parainfectious atypical
optic neuritis associated with schistosomiasis
infection
Weerasinghe 2016 Mimics and chameleons of optic neuritis
Driving regulations.
Ability to evaluate and manage people with disorders of the visual McIlwaine 2003 Transient or Intermittent Visual Loss
system including visual failure, oculomotor disorders & pituitary disease.

Benninger 2014 Surprising cause of transient monocular vision

loss
McDonald 2005 Visual Loss in a Young Man
Xue 2013 Retinal imaging: what the neurologist needs to
know
Bennetto 2014 Eye drop neurology
Braksick 2014 Moisture and mydriasis
Wong 2015 How to interpret visual fields
Mackay 2016 Non-mydriatic fundus photography: a practical
review for the neurologist
2.17 Disorders of Cranial Nerves
Anatomy of the skull base, particularly the orbit, cavernous sinus, Stone 2002 Pseudo-Ptosis
pituitary fossa, foramen magnum and jugular foramen; pathological
processes involving cranial nerves and their central connections; clinical
features & clinical assessment of cranial nerve function.

Hawkes 2005 Why Bother Testing the Sense of Smell?

Lance 2005 Harlequin Syndrome
Stone 2006 Parry-Romberg syndrome
Pearce 2007 Some syndromes of James Ramsay Hunt
Neagu 2016 Ramsay Hunt syndrome
Steele 2007 Not a microvascular sixth nerve palsy
Sheerin 2008 Atrophy of the superior oblique muscle
Stevens 2010 The imploding antrum syndrome: an unusual
cause of double vision
Wills 2010 Accessory nerve palsies
Ahmad 2011 Ptosis
Collyer 2012 Trigeminal trophic syndrome
Gold 2012 Aberrant regeneration of the third nerve
(oculomotor synkinesis)
Blackburn 2013 Delayed toxic–hypoxic encephalopathy
Huda 2013 Asystole and facial pain
Hughes 2014 Rules of tongue: look, listen, feel
Kheder 2014 Neurological red flag: the numb chin
Broad 2015 Recognising facial onset sensory motor
neuronopathy syndrome: insight from six new
cases
Fuller 2016
Bell's palsy syndrome: mimics and chameleons
Murdoch 2016 The Guillain–Mollaret triangle in action
Management of cranial nerve disorders including multidisciplinary
approaches to visual, hearing & balance, speech & swallowing disorders.

2.18 Disorders of Spine, Spinal Cord, Roots and Spinal Injury

Anatomy of the spine, spinal cord, roots; clinical features of spinal cord, Lamin 2003 Vascular Anatomy of the Spinal Cord and Cord
root and cauda equina syndromes; indications for urgent investigation; Ischaemia
potential and limitations of spinal CT, MRI, myelography and spinal
angiography.
 Renowden 2012 Normal anatomy of the spinal cord
Emergency management of spinal cord or root compression, of spinal Ropper 2015 Acute management of traumatic cervical spinal
injury; management of neck and low back pain and sciatica. cord injury

Ability to evaluate and manage people with disorders of the spine, spinal Knight 2001 Notalgia Paraesthetica
cord and roots, and the acute & chronic consequences of acute spinal
cord injury including effects of paralysis, autonomic dysfunction and
sensory loss.
Myles 2003 Don’t Worry – it’s only a Birthmark
van Gijn 2006 An elderly man with slowly ascending numbness
of the legs, followed by incontinence and
paraplegia
Bennett 2016 Neoplastic cauda equina syndrome: a
neuroimaging-based review
Stacpoole 2007 Spinal claudication due to myxopapillary
ependymoma
Ginsberg 2011 The bare essentials: Disorders of the spinal cord
and roots
Bush 2014 Papilloedema secondary to a spinal
paraganglioma
Buch 2015 Spinal cord tumour misdiagnosed as seropositive
neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder

Colchester 2015 Cauda equina syndrome due to intravascular

lymphoma: diagnosis by nasal biopsy

Wong 2008 Myelopathy but normal MRI: where next?

Lo 2014 Horse's tail in bamboo spine: the ‘cauda equina
syndrome in ankylosing spondylitis’
Carroll 2015 Transdural spinal cord herniation with extradural
cerebrospinal fluid collection
Cosgrove 2015 Holocord syrinx associated with
haemangioblastoma
Ginsberg 2017 Myelopathy: chameleons and mimics
Williamson 2017 Spinal cord infarction after cocaine use
2.19 Disorders of Peripheral Nerve
clinical features & investigation of genetic and acquired axonal and Overell 2011 Peripheral neuropathy: pattern recognition for
demyelinating neuropathies, traumatic & entrapment neuropathies, the pragmatist
plexopathies and mononeuritis multiplex;
Anatomy and pathology of peripheral nerves; Marsh 2013 How to recognise and treat peripheral nervous
system vasculitis
Hughes 2008 Peripheral nerve diseases: THE BARE ESSENTIALS

Connor 2002 Not the Guillain–Barré Syndrome

Lewis 2016 A wolf in sheep's clothing
Warlow 2002 Where is the Lateral Cutaneous Nerve of the
Forearm Anyway?
Hughes 2002 Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating
Polyradiculoneuropathy
Shah 2012 Cranial nerve, spinal root and plexus hypertrophy
in chronic inflammatory demyelinating
polyneuropathy
Overell 2006 Chronic inflammatory demyelinating
polyradiculoneuropathy: classification and
treatment options
Neligan 2014 CIDP: mimics and chameleons
Mohee 2013 An unusual cause of raised CSF protein
Willison 2002 Multifocal Motor Neuropathy
Donaghy 2003 Enlarged Peripheral Nerves
Khadilkar 2015 A practical approach to enlargement of nerves,
plexuses and roots
Andrews 2003 King’s College London Neuromuscular Disease
Symposium, November 2002 - An Unusual Cause
of Speech and Swallowing Difficulty

Kowalewska-Zietek 2011 An unusual cause of carpal tunnel syndrome

Gibani 2014 Hard to swallow: atypical transthyretin amyloid

neuropathy mistaken for CIDP
Ginsberg 2005 Fabry Disease
Hui 2005 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Dineen 2014 What role for ultrasound in diagnosing carpal
tunnel syndrome?
 Lindley 2006 Happy with HNPP?
Geranmayeh 2012 Recurrent sensory and motor neuropathy
Caswell 2006 POEMS syndrome
Stewart 2006 Ulnar neuropathies: where, why, and what to do?

van Alfen 2006 The trouble with neuralgic amyotrophy

Little 2007 Diabetic neuropathies
Hwang 2016 ‘Insulin neuritis’ to ‘treatment-induced
neuropathy of diabetes’: new name, same
mystery
Reilly 2007 Sorting out the inherited neuropathies
Rossor 2012 Knee bobbing in Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease

Rossor 2015 A practical approach to the genetic neuropathies

Ingram 2016 Distal hereditary motor neuropathy with vocal

cord paresis: from difficulty in choral singing to a
molecular genetic diagnosis
Stewart 2008 Foot drop: where, why and what to do?
Mathew 2010 Arsenical peripheral neuropathy
Sheikh 2010 The dorsal root ganglion under attack: the
acquired sensory ganglionopathies
Aurangzeb 2014 Mitochondrial encephalomyopathy with lactic
acidosis and stroke-like episodes (MELAS) in the
older adult
Themistocleous 2014 The clinical approach to small fibre neuropathy
and painful channelopathy
Chhetri 2014 Clinical assessment of the sensory ataxias;
diagnostic algorithm with illustrative cases
Lo 2016 Rueing the Roux-en-Y
Bäumer 2016 CIDP presenting as recurrent severe back pain
without weakness or sensory loss
Moudrous 2016 First digit macrodactyly and carpal tunnel
syndrome caused by giant median nerve with
2016 macrodystrophia lipomatosa
management of GBS and other severe paralysing neuropathies; Pritchard 2006 Author’s response
Chai 2012 Acute flaccid paralysis with chronic cough
 Winer 2009 When the Guillain-Barré patient fails to respond
to treatment
Carswell 2015 Progressive bilateral facial weakness
Wakerley 2015 Stumbling towards a diagnosis
Uncini 2015 99 years of Guillain–Barré syndrome:
pathophysiological insights from neurophysiology

Wakerley 2015 Mimics and chameleons in Guillain–Barré and

Miller Fisher syndromes
Bulder 2011 The man in black with headache, photophobia
and fixed pupils
Gilpin 2014 Headache, diplopia and labile blood pressure
during haemodialysis
general management of acute neuromuscular paralysis. Hutchinson 2008 Neuromuscular disease and respiratory failure

Ability to evaluate and manage people with disorders of peripheral Ginsberg 2003 Nerve Biopsy
nerves (including plexus lesions).
Lauria 2005 Skin Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Peripheral
Neuropathies
2.20 Disorders of Autonomic Nervous System
Anatomy and physiology of ANS; clinical features of ANS disorders alone
and as part of other condition e.g. multi-system atrophy; investigations
including autonomic function tests.
Pharmacological and physical managements of urinary retention,
erectile disorder, constipation, postural hypotension, autonomic
dysreflexia.
Ability to evaluate and manage people with disorders of the autonomic
nervous system.
2.21 Disorders of Muscle
Clinical features and investigation of genetic and acquired disorders of Merrison 2009 Muscle disease: THE BARE ESSENTIALS
the neuromuscular junction and voluntary muscle including periodic
disorders and disorders of energy metabolism (e.g. mitochondrial
disorders).
Jacob 2009 THE BARE ESSENTIALS: Myasthenia gravis and
other neuromuscular junction disorders
Walters 2014 Muscle diseases: mimics and chameleons
Hilton-Jones 2001 McArdle’s Disease
Chevrel 2002 Myositis Diagnosis and Management
Shah 2015 Giant cell myositis responsive to combined
corticosteroids and immunoglobulin
Hilton-Jones 2002 Diagnose Myasthenia Gravis
Farrugia 2005 Myasthenia gravis with MuSK antibodies
Hilton-Jones 2005 The Management of Myasthenia Gravis
Burke 2009 A treatable muscle disease
Hilton-Jones 2007 When the patient fails to respond to treatment:
myasthenia gravis
Reddy 2007 “Ice-on-eyes”, a simple test for myasthenia gravis
presenting with ocular symptoms
Finlayson 2013 Congenital myasthenic syndromes: an update

Sussman 2015 Myasthenia gravis: Association of British

Neurologists’ management guidelines
Hilton-Jones 2002 Inclusion Body Myositis
Maddison 2002 Neuromyotonia
Orrell 2004 Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy
Mul 2016 What's in a name? The clinical features of
facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy
Mastaglia 2006 Drug induced myopathies
Lagarde 2012 Sudden proximal paraparesis secondary to statin
myositis
Petty 2007 Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Mastaglia 2008 When the treatment does not work: polymyositis

Bushby 2009 Diagnosis and management of the limb girdle

muscular dystrophies
Shaboodien 2015 Limb-girdle weakness in a marfanoid man:
distinguishing calpainopathy from Becker's
muscular dystrophy
Rajakulendran 2010 Muscle weakness, palpitations and a small chin:
the Andersen–Tawil syndrome
Wilmin 2012 Torsade de pointes in Kearns–Sayre syndrome

Siow 2016 A rare cause of weakness

Management including cardio-respiratory and anaesthetic
considerations.
Ability to evaluate and manage people with disorders of muscle. Hall 2001 Muscle Biopsy

Leung 2006 The dropped head

Renard 2015 Cortical abnormalities on MRI: what a neurologist
should know
Sussman 2016 Thymectomy: the more you know, the more you
know you don’t know
Cauchi 2016 A practical approach to the patient presenting
with dropped head
Walters 2016 Contractures and muscle disease
2.22 Pain
Theories of pain generation; pain patterns in neurological and systemic Murray 2008 The farmer, his neuropathic pain and the cow
diseases; effective use of pharmacological agents and other measures fence
for pain relief including nerve blocks, TNS, acupuncture and
neurosurgical interventions.
Role of Pain Clinic; psychological and social effects of chronic pain, Magrinelli 2013 Neuropathic pain: diagnosis and treatment
understanding of MDT approach.
Ability to evaluate and manage people with neurological disorders Schott 2007 Complex? Regional? Pain? Syndrome?
causing pain and common non neurological causes of pain including
musculoskeletal disease.
Neurology Curriculum 2010 (with 2013 amendments) item Review Article Case Report Title
3. Allied Topics within Neurology Curriculum
3.1 Clinical Neurophysiology
EEG - normal range of EEG findings; common epileptiform abnormalities; Chancellor 2009 Electroencephalography: maturing gracefully
capabilities and limitations in neurological disorders; role of monitoring
techniques (telemetry, ambulatory); evaluation of sleep disorders;
neurological emergencies.

Whittaker 2015 Video telemetry: current concepts and recent

advances
May 2013 SIRPIDS: An unusual EEG pattern in a critically ill
patient
Abbas 2016 Extreme delta brushes and BIRDs in the EEG of
anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis
Proudfoot 2014 Magnetoencephalography
EMG/NCS/repetitive stimulation – principles of techniques; Ertas 2003 Single Fibre Electromyography
abnormalities in common nerve entrapments, peripheral neuropathies;
motor neuron disease; disorders of neuromuscular junction; muscle
disease.
Whittaker 2011 Testing the neuromuscular junction: what
neurophysiology can offer the neurologist
Whittaker 2012 The fundamentals of electromyography
Whittaker 2012 SNAPs, CMAPs and F-waves: nerve conduction
studies for the uninitiated
Evoked potentials - common abnormalities in neurological diseases, Barnett 2007 The action potential
particularly demyelination; role of intraoperative EP.
Kane 2015 Somatosensory evoked potentials aid prediction
after hypoxic–ischaemic brain injury

Understand role and practice of neurophysiological investigations in

disorders of the nervous system; ability to interpret a neurophysiology
report.
3.2 Neuroendocrinology
Clinical features and investigations in endocrine disorders; emergency
management of disorders; relationships with neurological disorders.

Steroid therapy and its complications. Simpson 2008 An evolving headache

Understand the principles of the NS in endocrine function and
neurological features of endocrine disorder particularly pituitary disease.

3.3 Neurogenetics
Basic genetic principles including inheritance patterns and common Morrison 2002 Polymerase Chain Reaction
diagnostic methods; roles of a detailed family history and of DNA based
diagnostic tests.
Reilly 2016 Untreatable genetic disorders: to test or not to
test
Chinnery 2003 The Mitochondrion and its Disorders
Aurangzeb 2014 An elusive cause for a progressive neuropathy

Chinnery 2006 Could it be mitochondrial? When and how to

investigate
 Martikainen 2015 Mitochondrial disease: mimics and chameleons

Razvi 2005 Draw a Pedigree During the Neurological

Consultation
Keogh 2013 Exome sequencing: how to understand it
Genetic contribution to multifactorial neurological disease (e.g. stroke,
multiple sclerosis, subarachnoid haemorrhage, epilepsy).

Jung 2009 Acute hemiparesis in Sturge-Weber syndrome

Clinical features of common genetic conditions (hereditary ataxias, Simpson 2004 The Management of Huntington’s Disease
Huntington’s disease, hereditary neuropathies, muscle diseases, and
neurocutaneous syndromes).
Craufurd 2015 Diagnostic genetic testing for Huntington's
disease
Worth 2004 Sorting out Ataxia in Adults
Walker 2006 Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7)
van Gaalen 2012 A practical approach to late-onset cerebellar
ataxia: putting the disorder with lack of order into
order
Stevens 2011 Ataxia in a young patient
Sidhu 2013 A progressive multifocal conundrum
Davenport 2006 Shaky older men (and now women)
Ferner 2010 The neurofibromatoses
Rafiq 2011 A neurological rarity not to be missed:
cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis
Nicholls 2015 Diagnosis of spinal xanthomatosis by next-
generation sequencing: identifying a rare,
treatable mimic of hereditary spastic paraparesis

Athappily 2013 TS or not TS?

Kheder 2013 Niemann–Pick type C: a potentially treatable
disorder?
Lote 2013 48, XXYY syndrome associated tremor
Nowak 2014 Kjellin syndrome: hereditary spastic paraplegia
with pathognomonic macular appearance
 Wynford-Thomas 2014 Rarities in neurology: blue rubber bleb naevus
syndrome
Ahmad 2015 Adult-onset Alexander's disease mimicking
degenerative disease
Thouin 2016 Glut1 deficiency syndrome: Absence epilepsy and
La Soupe du Jour
Ibitoye 2016
Ovarioleukodystrophy due to EIF2B5 mutations
Kirresh 2016 Trapped without a diagnosis: Tumour necrosis
factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome
(TRAPS)
Rodrigues 2016 Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures in early
Huntington's disease
Breen 2017 A hill walker with long chains
An understanding of the role of bioinformatic databases of human
disease.
Understand the principles of genetics as applied to neurological disorder;
ability to interpret a genetics report.
Ability to counsel and consent patients and families prior to undergoing
genetic testing.
3.4 Neurointensive Care
Clinical features, causes, investigation and management of coma Wijdicks 2002 Short of Breath, Short of Air, Short of Mechanics
(including epilepsy and raised ICP), failure to regain consciousness and
paralysis; diagnosis of and ability to define the vegetative state;
management of status epilepticus; the principles of CVR support;
indications for artificial nutrition.
Howard 2008 Weakness on the intensive care unit
Ropper 2014 Management of raised intracranial pressure and
hyperosmolar therapy
ICU neurological complications of major surgery, sepsis, drugs & medical
disorders.
Clinical, legal and ethical issues in brain death, coma and vegetative
state.
3.5 Neuro-otology
Applied anatomy and physiology of hearing and balance; history and Whiteley 2004 An Elderly Man with Cranial Nerve Palsies, Otalgia
examination techniques including vestibular manoeuvres; conditions and Otorrhoea
affecting the vestibulocochlear system.

Mattle 2005 Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo is

Sometimes Not so Benign
Seemungal 2008 A practical approach to acute vertigo
Hamid 2009 Ménière’s disease
Bronstein 2010 Chronic dizziness: a practical approach
Ability to evaluate the deaf and / or dizzy person and interpret reports
including audiograms.
Ability to perform diagnostic and therapeutic vestibular manoeuvres. Brandt 2001 Exercise Away Vertigo

Kaski 2014 Progressive bilateral ptosis in a patient with

midbrain metastasis and chronic inflammatory
demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy

3.6 Neuropaediatrics
Understanding of neurological disorders in intrauterine life and Mikati 2003 Febrile Seizures in Children
childhood; key stages of development and range of normality;
knowledge of developmental disorders (including effects of intrauterine
and perinatal factors ), metabolic conditions, cerebral palsy, learning
disability and autism.
Kassem-Moussa 2005 Management of acute stroke in the paediatric age
group
Wimalasundera 2016 Cerebral palsy
Knowledge of paediatric conditions that can present in adulthood.

Ability to evaluate and manage neurological disorders in teenagers in

liaison with paediatric neurologists.
Ability to examine teenage children.
3.7 Neuropathology
Understand the pathological basis of neurological disorders; anatomy of Jeans 2008 Brain histology
brain sections, brain preparation, histological, histochemical,
immunocytochemical biochemical, immunological & microbiologicaland
E.M. techniques; understand and interpret reports; role of and consent
process for coroner.

Ability to appropriately request pathological investigations and interpret

pathology reports.
Understand the importance of clinico-pathological conferences.
3.8 Neuropsychiatry
Understanding of common psychiatric disorders (including learning Sharpe 2003 What do Neurologists Need to Know About
disability), Psychiatry?
Zeman 2014 Neurology is psychiatry—and vice versa
David 2003 Asperger’s and Related Disorders
neurological features which may have psychiatric causes (including Howard 2004 Do Investigations Reassure Patients with No
medically unexplained symptoms, conversion disorder, somatisation); Organic Pathology?

Stone 2006 Dissociation: what is it and why is it important?

Stone 2009 Functional symptoms in neurology: THE BARE

ESSENTIALS
Stone 2016 Functional neurological disorders: the
neurological assessment as treatment
Edwards 2016 Functional neurological symptoms: welcome to
the new normal
Explaining functional disorders in the neurology
clinic: a photo story
Carson 2016 Explaining functional disorders in the neurology
clinic: a photo story
Lee 2016 Functional foreign accent syndrome
the mental health act and when it can be used. Wade 2015 Restricting freedom of people with limited
awareness of maintaining their well-being: a legal
quagmire
Ashby 2015 Brain injury and deprivation of liberty on
neurosciences wards: ‘a gilded cage is still a cage’
Ability to evaluate and interpret psychiatric symptoms in and as House 2003 Defining, Recognizing and Managing Depression in
presentations of neurological disorders, psychiatric consequences of Neurological Practice
neurological disease and neurological features in people with psychiatric
disorders.
Sharpe 2006 The symptom of generalised fatigue
Stone 2011 We must tell our patients what is wrong with
them even if we don't know why they have
symptoms
Stanton 2016 Apathy: a practical guide for neurologists
3.9 Neuropsychology
Understanding of neuroanatomical and neurophysiological basis of Budson 2007 Memory dysfunction in neurological practice
memory, attention, language and perception
Understand the value and limitations of neuropsychological Detert 2015 Mindfulness for neurologists
interventions (CBT)
Understand MMSE and basic neuropsychological tests employed by
Clinical Psychologists, e.g. NART, WAIS.
Ability to utilise basic clinical tests of cognitive function, to understand Griffiths 2003 Use a Diagnostic Neuropsychology Service
the need to refer to and the role of the Clinical Neuropsychologist, and Properly
to interpret reports.
3.10 Neuroradiology
Request, interpret and utilise neuro-radiological investigations Thammaroj 2005 The Hippocampus: Modern Imaging of its
appropriately; Anatomy and Pathology
Schott 2007 A neurological MRI menagerie
Shenoy 2009 Fahr’s disease
Lines 2013 Looking beyond the obvious: cerebral calcification

Renowden 2012 Normal anatomy of the brain on CT and MRI with

a few normal variants
Renowden 2012 Normal anatomy of the base of the skull, orbit,
pituitary and cranial nerves
Renowden 2014 Imaging in stroke and vascular disease—part 2:
intracranial haemorrhage and related pathologies

Renowden 2015 The parasellar region and central skull base

Bahl 2013 Focal cortical dysplasia mimicking neoplasia
Renard 2015 Serum CK as a guide to the diagnosis of muscle
disease
 Velasquez 2015 Kernohan's notch
Kaplan 2016 Reversible splenial lesion syndrome
Boca 2016 Basal ganglia necrosis: a ‘best-fit’ approach
explain the nature, risks and benefits of neuro- radiological Salman 2010 Brain MRI roulette
investigations to patients.
understand the role, risks and limitations of common techniques. Farrall 2006 Magnetic resonance imaging

3.11 Neurorehabilitation
Understand the difference between pathology, impairment, activity & Walton 2003 Management of Patients With Spasticity - A
participation; understand the potential and limitations of Practical Approach
neurorehabilitation; understand the social perspective, relevant social
work legislation and availability of care in the community.

Kheder 2012 Spasticity: pathophysiology, evaluation and

management
Ability to evaluate the requirement for rehabilitation in people with
neurological disorders (including stroke, head injury, spinal injury and
MS) in the context of a multidisciplinary team and make appropriate
referrals.
Ability to perform and utilise a functional assessment.
Contribute to and, if appropriate, lead an MDT meeting being aware of
the different roles, skills, approach and agenda of rehabilitation teams.

3.12 Neurosurgery
Understand the role of neurosurgery in the management of head injury,
raised intracranial pressure, intracranial haemorrhage and ischaemic
stroke, aneurysm, vascular malformation and tumours, spinal cord and
root disorder and peripheral nerve lesions.

Understand the purpose, limitations, process and complications of

biopsy procedures (brain, muscle, nerve).
Understanding of the principles of general and specific risks and de Gusmäo 2015 Cerebrospinal fluid shunt-induced chorea: case
complications of neurosurgical interventions. report and review of the literature on shunt-
related movement disorders
Annan 2014 Deterioration following craniectomy
Nagendran 2016 The zebra sign: an unknown known
Ability to evaluate the requirement for neurosurgical interventions in Haines 2003 Which Operation for Trigeminal Neuralgia
people with neurological disorders and to liaise effectively with the
neurosurgeon.
Spinner 2006 CA Breaking down the silos: the team approach to
evaluating the patient referred for neurological
surgery
Wakerley 2013 Progressive dysphagia without dysarthria
McArdle 2016 Ruptured intracranial dermoid cyst
3.13 Neurourology
Understand normal control of micturition and sexual function; Smith 2013 Urinary retention for the neurologist
differential diagnosis of causes of disordered micturition and erectile
dysfunction; understand hypo- and hyper-sexuality; understand

Panicker 2010 The bare essentials: Uro-Neurology

treatment strategies for disorders of micturition and sexual function.

Ability to evaluate, manage and or refer people with disordered Dasgupta 2001 Urodynamics
micturition and sexual function due to neurological disorder.