1. MAIN THEORETICAL REFERENCES IN PSYCHIATRY
2. PSYCHIATRIC SEMEIOTICS:
Appearance, motor activity, mime , speech, behaviour, psychiatric History.
3. PSYCHOPATHOLOGY:
Attention, Memory, Consciousness, Perception, Thought, Affectivity, aggressive or violent Conduct, Will, Activity and Psychomotricity, Intelligence.
4. CLINIC
a) CLASSIFICATION of PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS – DSM IV-TR (A.P.A.); The ICD-10 (O.M.S.)
b) DEMENTIA, DELIRIUM:
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical history, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
c) SUBSTANCES RELATED DISORDERS:
ALCOHOL, AMPHETAMINES, CAFFEINE, CANNABIS, COCAINE, HALLUCINOGENS, INHALANTS, PHENCYCLIDINE, OPIATES, NICOTINE, SEDATIVES, HYPNOTICS AND ANXIOLYTICS.
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
d) SCHIZOPHRENIA
Epidemiology, Risk factors and Etiopathogenetic hypothesis, Simptomatology (initial period, state period, course and outcome), Clinical forms, Prognosis, Diagnosis and Differential diagnosis, Therapy.
e) OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS:
ACUTE AND CHRONIC DELUSIONAL DISORDER.
(Nosography), epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical and clinical forms, diagnosis, Clinical History, Prognosis, therapy.
f) MOOD DISORDERS
Epidemiology, Etiopatogenesis, Clinical pictures (Depressive episode, Manic episode, Hypomania, Mixed States), Course (Sigle-Pole, Bipolar, Distimia), Prognosis, Therapy, Suicide.
g) ANXIETY DISORDERS
Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia; Social Phobia; Specific Phobias; Generalized Anxiety Disorder; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder; Anxiety Disorder related to medical conditions, Anxiety Disorder related to substances abuse.
Historical and Nosographic notes, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis, Comorbility, Prognosis, Therapy.
h) SOMATOFORM DISORDERS:
SOMATISATION DISORDER, CONVERSION, PAIN, HYPOCHONDRIA, DYSMORPHIC BODY
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
i) DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS:
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA, DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE, DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY OR MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES, DEPERSONALISATION.
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
l) FICTITIOUS DISORDERS:
WITH PREDOMINANT PSYCHIATRIC SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; WITH PREDOMINANTLY PHYSICAL SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS; WITH PSYCHIC AND PHYSICAL COMBINED SYMPTOMS.
Diagnosis and differential diagnosis; -Forensic psychiatric implications.
m) SEXUAL DISORDERS AND GENDER IDENTITY:
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; PARAPHILIAS; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDERS
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
n) EATING DISORDER:
ANOREXIA NERVOSA; BULIMIA NERVOSA
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
o) PERSONALITY DISORDERS:
Group A (Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal);
GROUPB (Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic);
Group C (Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-compulsive).
Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Medical History, Clinical Progress, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.
5. THERAPY
a) PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY:
ACTIVE DRUGS IN THE TREATMENT OF ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, PSYCHOSES, COGNITIVE DECLINE; MOOD REGULATORS
Psychomotor development • Mental delay • Learning Disorders: dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, learning disorder not otherwise specified • Communication disorders: Disorder of speech, expression and disorder mixed receptive language, speech disorder, stuttering, communication disorder not otherwise specified •Autism spetrum disorder,, Rett syndrome,• Attention Deficit Disorder / Hyperactivity • Tic Disorders: Tourette syndrome, transient tic disorder, chronic motor tics or vocal • Obsessive compulsive disorder • Anxiety disorders • Mood Disorders • Enuresis • febril seizures • cerebral palsy microcephaly
Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica (a cura di) G.B. Cassano, E. Tundo, UTET ed., Torino, 2007.
R. Militerni “Neuropsichiatria Infantile” Eds Idelson Gnocchi
DSM-V “Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali” APA