FULL PHRM30002 H1 Active Recall Notes - Drugs Affecting the Nervous System (optimised for online exams!)

Description

Detailed notes for PHRM30002 Drugs Affecting the Nervous System coordinated by Dr Peter Crack. It's been arranged in a style optimum for the "active recall" study technique on the Notion platform, and has been arranged into questions based on each lecture's learning objective points.

 These notes helped me get a solid H1 in both MSTs & the final exam, without having to look up answers on Google/use any other resources. Relevant knowledge from other subjects (BIOM20002 HSF, NEUR30004 Complex Functions, PSYC30020 The Integrated Brain) has been added to make more well-rounded answers for my MSTs, both of which I got full marks.

 

Topics: 
Week 1: Intro to neuropharmacology, blood-CNS barriers, nerves as targets for drug action
 Week 2: Peripheral nerves, BBB & drug delivery, catecholaminergic transmission
 Week 3: Cholinergic transmission, block tutorial, glia as a therapeutic target
 Week 4: Neuropeptides, neuroendocrine, serotonin 
Week 5: GABA
 Week 6: Glutamate, pain control Week 7: Ion channels, neurotrophic factors, neurotoxicity 
Week 8: Immune system + the brain, Parkinson's
 Week 9: Alzheimer's
 Week 10: Depression + BPD, sedatives + hypnotics, sleep therapeutics
 Week 11: Reinforcement + addiction, addiction therapies, motor neuron disease 
Week 12: Schizophrenia, epilepsy, revision tutorial