having passed first clinical examinations and first clinical internships
Being able to establish a valid relationship with the patient. Being able to conduct a complete psychological, neurological, psychiatric and neurosurgical evaluation. To know the main clinical pictures of these disciplines, the main therapeutic solutions and the limits of one's competence
About the bio-psycho-social foundation of clinical medicine
Patient evaluation and assessment
Community mental health care
Schizofrenia and other psychotic disorders
Affective (mood) disorders
Suicide and parasuicide
Anxiety disorders
Organic psychiatric disorders
Mental retardation
Autism spectrum disorders
Substance misuse
Eating, sleep, sexual disorders
Voluntary vs compulsory treatment
Psychopharmacotherapy
Psychotherapy
Rehabilitation
Headache, trigeminal neuralgia’s, facial paresis
Back and neck pain
Disorders of consciousness: syncope, confusion and delirium, coma; seizures and epilepsy
Dizziness, gait and balance disorders, disorders of hearing
Weakness and paralysis
Numbness, Tingling, and Sensory loss
Disorders of vision and diplopia
Aphasia, memory loss and other focal cerebral disorders
Cerebrovascular diseases
Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
Parkinson’s disease and Movement Disorders
Diseases of the spinal cord
Concussion and other head injuries
Primary and Metastatic tumors of the nervous system
Multiple Sclerosis
Infections of the CNS
Peripheral neuropathy
Muscle disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Alcohol and alcoholism
Psychiatric disorders in neurology
Intracranial Hypertension and coma.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of Head Trauma and its consequences.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of primitive and secondary tumors of the brain and the spinal cord.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of degenerative and traumaatic pathologies of the spine.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of hemorragic cerebrovascular diseases.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of hydrocephalus and spinal dysraphism.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of neurosurgically treatable pain.
Diagnosis and Neurosurgical Management of movement disorders and epilepsy.
Lectures, discussion of videorecorded clinical cases
Neel Burton, Psychiatry 3rd ed.
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