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PSICHIATRIA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE Nuovo canale 2

Teaching Staff

ANTONINO PETRALIA - Module Psychiatry - MED/25 - 4 CFU
RENATA RIZZO - Module NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - MED/09 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Psychiatry
  

  Providing the fundamental concepts of psychiatry with particular reference to the description of the clinic and therapy of major psychiatric disorders;

  Providing information on psychiatric legislation and on the main risk factors of self and other- directed aggression

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

  Knowing the basics of mental and psychiatric illness with early in childhood and adolescence.

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Detailed Course Content

• Psychiatry
  

  Psychiatric semeiotics: aspect, motor activity, facial expressions, language, behavior, psychiatric history

  Psychopathology: attention, consciousness, memory, perception, thinking and affectivity, aggressive and violent behavior, will, and psychomotor activities, intelligence

  Classification of Psychiatric disorders: ICD, DSM

  Clinical pictures, Diagnosis, Differential diagnosis, course, therapy of:

  Neurocognitive disorders, Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders, Bipolar and Related Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Feeding and Eating Disorders, Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, Trauma- and Stressor-Related Disorders, Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders, Dissociative disorders, Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders, Personality disorders

   

  Psychiatric legislation

   

  Psychopharmacotherapy: drugs used in therapy of anxiety, depression, psychosis, neuro cognitive impairment, mood stabilizers

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

  Psychomotor development • Neurological examination of infants and preterm 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. Epilepsy. Neurocutaneus syndrome.

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Textbook Information

• Psychiatry
  

  Cento anni di Psicopatologia Generale di Karl Jaspers. G.Stanghellini and T.Fuchs, L’asino d’oro Ed., 2016

  Elementi di Psichiatria, 3rd edition. F. Bogetto, G.Maina, U.Albert, Minerva Medica Ed. 2015

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
  

  R. Militerni “Neuropsichiatria Infantile” Eds Idelson Gnocchi
  DSM-V “Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali” APA

  Neurologia pediatrica di LorenzoPavone, Martino Ruggeri. Seconda Edizione (Masson)

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