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PSICHIATRIA, PSICOLOGIA CLINICA E NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE - channel 4

Teaching Staff

ROSARIA ALBA MARIA FURNARI - Module Psychiatry - MED/25 - 4 CFU
RITA MARIA ELISA BARONE - Module Child Neuropsychiatry - MED/09 - 2 CFU
TULLIO MICHELE SCRIMALI - Module PSICOLOGIA CLINICA - M-PSI/08 - 1 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• 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

• 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

• 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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