This course
aims to introduce students to pharmacology of central nervous system
pharmacology, opioids, analgesics, antagonists, neuromuscular blocking drugs,
general and local anaesthetics, neuroleptics, drugs for Parkinson’s disease,
sedative, hypnotic drugs, drugs used for treatment of depression and mania,
drug abuse and addiction, analgesics, antipyretics, stimulants of central
nervous system, hallucinogens, anticonvulsants and antiepileptic’s. Psychiatry,
neurosurgery, pathology, pediatric   neurology,
anesthesiology, radiology and the infectious diseases of the nervous system
will be covered. They will also be introduced to physiology of balance,
vertigo, hearing loss and diagnostic procedure in the section of the Diseases
of the Ear, Nose & Throat.