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PSICHIATRIA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE Nuovo canale 4

Teaching Staff

ROSARIA ALBA MARIA FURNARI - Module Psychiatry - MED/25 - 4 CFU
RITA MARIA ELISA BARONE - Module Child Neuropsychiatry - MED/09 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Psychiatry
  

  Knowledge of personality psychopathology aspects, learning of psychiatric pathologies with skill of differential diagnostic and setting of therapeutic programmes, psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic, knowledge of organizational mode of territorial mental health care. Principles of forensic psychiatry.

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  The course is aimed to introduce the student to understand the physiological trajectories of development in the child with typical development with respect to those observed in children with developmental disabilities.

  The student will acquire competences in the diagnostic procedure of the most common neuropsychiatric disorders in infancy, childhood and adolescence. He will learn about diagnostic criteria, psychometric evaluation and therapy in different childhood neuropsychiatric diseases.

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Detailed Course Content

• Psychiatry
  

  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

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  Neurological examination of the newborn and preterm infant

  The psychomotor development

  Cerebral Palsy

  Floppy infant

  Epilepsy

  Febrile seizures

  Childhood headaches

  Intellectual disability

  Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Oppositional defiant disturbance, Conduct disorder

  Anxious disturbance

  Tic disorders

  Schizophrenia

  Motor coordination disorders

  Learning disabilities

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Textbook Information

• Psychiatry
  

  Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica (a cura di) G.B. Cassano, E. Tundo, UTET ed., Torino, 2007.

  Psichiatria e Psicologia Clinica 4e(a cura di Giordano Invernizi e Cinzia Bressi, McGrew-Hill, Milano2016

  Elementi di psichiatria - F. Bogetto, G. Maina, U.Albert, Minerva Medica Ed. Torino 2014

• Child Neuropsychiatry
  

  Neuropsichiatria Infantile 5/ed. [Militerni - Idelson Gnocchi]

   

  Neurologia pediatrica di Lorenzo Pavone, Martino Ruggieri. Seconda Edizione [Masson]

   

  American Psychiatric Association DSM - 5 Manuale diagnostico e statistico dei disturbi mentali. [Raffaello Cortina Editore , Edizione: V]

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