Course Instructor

Consultant Neurologist

Rubesh Gooriah

Dr. Gooriah is a Consultant Neurologist at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, where he runs specialist clinics for atypical dementia and movement disorders. He is a graduate from the University of Leeds and undertook specialist training in Neurology in Yorkshire, United Kingdom. Dr. Gooriah holds a monthly multidisciplinary meeting with healthcare providers at the Hull Memory Clinic to support them with the diagnosis and treatment of patients with dementia. He is the Royal College of Physicians Regional Specialty Advisor for Yorkshire and Training Programme Director for Neurology. He has a keen interest in the training of junior doctors and aspiring neurologists.

  • Engaging

  • Smart multimedia

  • 7 CPD/CME points

  • Certificate of completion

Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Preview

  • 2

    Basics of dementia

    • Definition and demographics

    • Risk factors

    • Socio-economic impact
  • 3

    History-taking

    • Part 1

    • Part 2

    • Part 3

    • Part 4
  • 4

    Cognitive assessment

    • Introduction

    • Cognitive tools part 1

    • Cognitive tools part 2

    • Cognitive domains part 1

    • Cognitive domains part 2

    • Cognitive domains part 3
  • 5

    Physical examination

    • Introduction

    • Oculomotor system

    • Motor speech

    • Parkinsonism and gait disorders

    • Other signs
  • 6

    Clinicopathological classification

    • Clinicopathological classification
  • 7

    Mild cognitive impairment

    • Introduction

    • Amnestic versus non-amnestic MCI

    • Cognitive assessment for MCI
  • 8

    Alzheimer's disease

    • Introduction

    • Neuropathology

    • Genetics

    • Clinical features

    • Cognitive testing

    • Laboratory studies

    • Neuroimaging

    • Staging

    • Diagnostic criteria

    • Treatment - conventional drugs

    • Treatment - newer drugs

    • Prognosis
  • 9

    Dementia with Lewy bodies

    • Introduction

    • Neuropathology

    • Diagnostic criteria

    • Essential and core clinical features

    • Supportive clinical features

    • Biomarkers

    • Treatment and prognosis
  • 10

    Vascular cognitive impairment

    • Introduction

    • Mechanisms of VCI

    • Clinical features

    • Diagnosis

    • Management
  • 11

    Behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia

    • Introduction

    • Neuropathology

    • Clinical features

    • Cognitive profile

    • Neuroimaging

    • Diagnostic criteria

    • Treatment and prognosis
  • 12

    Parkinson's disease dementia

    • Introduction

    • Neuropathology

    • Clinical features

    • Diagnostic criteria

    • Treatment and prognosis
  • 13

    Cognitive deficits in other parkinsonian syndromes

    • Corticobasal syndrome

    • Progressive supranuclear palsy

    • Multiple system atrophy
  • 14

    Primary progressive aphasia and apraxia of speech

    • Introduction

    • Primary progressive aphasia

    • Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia

    • Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia

    • Apraxia of speech

    • Non-fluent agrammatic variant primary progressive aphasia

    • Primary progressive apraxia of speech

    • Progressive agrammatic aphasia and unclassified PPA
  • 15

    Idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus

    • Introduction

    • Pathophysiology

    • Clinical features

    • Neuroimaging

    • Predictive tests

    • Treatment
  • 16

    Other syndromes

    • Limbic-predominant age-related TDP-43 encephalopathy

    • Posterior cortical atrophy

    • Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

    • Autoimmune limbic encephalitis

    • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

    • HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder

    • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy

  • 17

    Assessment

    • 50 questions (80% pass mark)