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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
FRANCESCO LE PIRA - Module Neurology - 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.

• Neurology
  

  Give essential informations about the most important neurological diseases

  Give general information about therapies

  Learn how to deal with neurological patients

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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.

• Neurology
  

  Neurological examination

  Neuropsychology

  Extrapiramidal diseases

  Headaches

  Multiple sclerosis

  Epilepsy

  Cerebrovascular diseases

  Degenerative diseases

  Neuropathies

  Myopathies

  Traumas

  Dementia

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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.

• Neurology
  

  Malattie del sistema nervoso Ferrarese McGraw Hill

  Neurologia di Cambier Jean, Masson Maurice, Dehen Henri- Elsevier 2013

  Manuale di neurologia. Wilkinson I, Lennox G. Minerva Medica

  La neurologia di Bergamini. Editore Cortina

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