To provide students skills for the proper historical data collection and to address the neurological clinical examination
To provide students basic clinical knowldge for the diagnostic and therapeutic process of main neurological disease affecting
- central nervous system
- Peripheral nervoussystem
-muscles
To provide students with understanding of epidemiology, classification, clinical features, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to the most common neurosurgical diseases, both cranio-cerebral and vertebro-medullary ones.
Frontal teaching; practical training and seminars to be held at the Neurosurgical Unit, Policlinico "G. Rodolico" University Hospital, Via S. Sofia 78, Catania
Neuroanatomy and Neurophisiolofy
Neurologic examination
Stroke
Neurodegenerative diseases of central nervous system
Infiammatory diseases of both central and peripheral nervous system
Muscle disease
Epilepsia
Rare neurologic diseases
• Cerebro-spinal Fluid circulation diseases: diagnosis and treatment (hydrocephalus)
• Cranio-cerebral hemorrhages, including subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Traumatic brain injuries
• Brain tumors: diagnosis and multimodal treatment, including sellar and parasellar tumors
• Vertebral and spinal cord tumors (extradural, intradural-extramedullary, intramedullary)
• Cranio-cerebral and vertebro-medullary malformations
• Traumatic spine injuries
• Cervical spondylotic myelopathy and cervical disc herniation
• Lumbar and thoracic spine disc herniation, spondylosis and spondylolisthesis
Il Bergamini di Neurologia
Autore: Bergamini - Lopiano - Mutani - Durelli - Mauro - Chio' , Editore: Edizioni Libreria Cortina Torino
Neurochirurgia in 10 lezioni
Editore: Minerva Medica
Data di Pubblicazione: 2019
Neurology and Neurosurgery Illustrated - Fifth Edition
Kenneth W. Lindsay - Ian Bone - Geraint Fuller
Editor: Churchill Livingstone - Elsevier