To provide students basic clinical knowldge on the most common neurological disorders
The course aims to provide students adequate knowledge and basic skills in the area of psychiatric science.
At the end of the course student should:
1. be able to recognize and frame the main psychopathological symptoms;
2. know the recent classification of mental illnesses;
3. know the main therapeutic interventions in psychiatry (psiychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic, eehabilitative);
4. have acquired a bsic knowedge of psychiatric legislation and of organization of mental healthcare in Italy.
Legal medicine is aimed to the study and application of scientific and medical knowledge to legal problems. It is directed to the acquisition of information significant to the exercise of medical profession in terms of legal and ethical issues, with respect to criminal, civil and social insurance. The teaching is focused in particular on the study of the forensic pathology with particular reference to thanatology, forensic traumatology, forensic psychopathology, forensic asphyxiology, forensic toxicology, forensic human identiļ¬cation, crime scene processing and investigation.
Neuroanatomy and Neurophisiolofy
Neurologic examination
Cranial nerves
Haedaches
Neurodegenerative diseases of central nervous system
Infiammatory diseases of both central and peripheral nervous system
Epilepsia
Stroke
1. SCHIZOPHRENIA Epidemiology, Risk factors and Etiopathogenetic hypothesis, Simptomatology (initial period, state period, course and outcome), Clinical forms, Prognosis, Diagnosis and Differential diagnosis, Therapy. 2. MOOD DISORDERS Epidemiology, Etiopatogenesis, Clinical pictures (Depressive episode, Manic episode, Hypomania, Mixed States), Course (Sigle-Pole, Bipolar, Distimia), Prognosis, Therapy, Suicide. 3. 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. 4. THE NORMAL PERSON AND THE 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.
An introduction to Penal Law (crime, classifications, objective and subjective elements, legal figure of dentist) Civil capacity (legal capacity and capacity to act, interdiction, disqualification, natural incapacity) Material causation and law regulations Chain of material causation Imputability (under age, full or partial infirmity of the mind, passionate state, intoxications, deaf-mutism) Diagnosis of death. Report of the causes of death. Regulations of mortuary Police. Time of death and thanatological changes of corpse. Medical Deontology Notes on pathology: - injuries from blunt instruments stab injuries - injuries from fire-arm - electrical injuries - asphyxia (suffocation, hanging, strangulation, constriction, drowning) Forensic Toxicology: - diagnosis of poisoning - CO poisoning - alcoholism and drug addictions - legislation on drugs Degrees of murder Crimes of beating and personal injury Crime of sexual violence Abortion Dentist and health care professionals (dentist-patient relationship; informed consent) The professional medical liability Medical Report to Public Prosecutor’s Office Professional secrecy Medical record; medical certification Legal advice to the Office of Public Prosecutions Compulsory medical treatment Notes on personal identification: comparative dental identification Social system of assistance and welfare services
Psicopatologia e Clinica Psichiatrica (a cura di) G.B. Cassano, E. Tundo, UTET ed., Torino, 2007.
Manuale di Psichiatria (a cura di) Massimo Biondi, ELSEVIER ed., Milano, 2009
1. L. Macchiarelli, P. Arbarello, G. Cave Bondi, N. M. Di Luca, T. Feola - Compendio di Medicina Legale. Editore: Minerva Medica
2. G.A. Norelli, C. Buccelli, V. Fineschi - Medicina legale e delle assicurazioni. Editore: Piccin
3. Zagra M., Argo A., Madea B., Procaccianti P. Medicina legale orientata per problemi. Editore: Elsevier Srl, 2011.