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SCIENZE PSICHIATRICHE E NEUROLOGICHE - channel 2

Teaching Staff

EUGENIO AGUGLIA - Module PSYCHIATRY - MED/25 - 2 CFU
ROBERTO RUSSO - Module INFERMIERISTICA IN PSICHIATRIA E NEUROLOGIA - MED/45 - 3 CFU
VITO SOFIA - Module NEUROLOGIA - MED/26 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  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.

• NEUROLOGIA
  

  NEUROLOGIA

  Provide students with the necessary elements for the correct collection of medical history data for the purpose of a diagnostic orientation and a correct care management of the main
  neurological diseases of the central nervous system and of the peripheral nervous system.

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Detailed Course Content

• PSYCHIATRY
  

  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, Ethiopatogenesis, Clinical pictures (Depressive episode, Manic episode, Hypomania, Mixed States), Course (Sigle-Pole, Bipolar, Distimia), Prognosis, Therapy.

  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.

• NEUROLOGIA
  

  NEUROLOGIA
  Neuroanatomy and Neurophysiology
  Neurologic syntoms
  Stroke
  Neurodegenerative diseases of central nervous system
  Infiammatory diseases of both central and peripheral nervous system
  Muscle disease
  Epilepsia
  Rare neurologic diseases

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Textbook Information

• PSYCHIATRY
  

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

  Manuale di Psichiatria (a cura di) Massimo Biondi, ELSEVIER ed., Milano, 2009.

• NEUROLOGIA
  

  NEUROLOGIA

  IAIN WILKINSON – GRAHAM LENNOX

  MANUALE DI NEUROLOGIA

  ED. Minerva Medica

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