CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY
Stampa
Enrollment year
2018/2019
Academic year
2019/2020
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
MED/39 (CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH, NEUROSCIENCE, EXPERIMENTAL AND FORENSIC MEDICINE
Course
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
1st semester (01/10/2019 - 24/01/2020)
ECTS
2
Lesson hours
16 lesson hours
Language
Italian
Activity type
ORAL TEST
Teacher
Prerequisites
None
Learning outcomes
1. knowing the basis of the neurological and psychiatric semeiology in children and adolescents
2. knowing the major disorders in child neuropsychiatry:
I. epidemiology
II. etiopatogenesis
III. symptoms
IV. diagnostic issues
V. treatment
VI. rehabilitation
Course contents
• Basis of the neurological and psychiatric semeiology in children and adolescents
• Static and progressive encephalopaties
• Epilepsy
• Intellectual disability
• Early years psychopathology (and in particular Autism Spectrum Disorders)
• Childhood psychopathology
• Adolescent psychopathology
• Specific Learning Disorders and learning disabilities
• ADHD
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Reccomended or required readings
Lanzi G, Balottin U. Argomenti di neuropsichiatria infantile. Italian University Press, 2013
Chiappedi M. Psicometria: dalla teoria alla pratica. Edizioni Anfora, 2012
Lanzi G, Chiappedi M. Riabilitare il bambino o la paralisi cerebrale infantile? La Goliardica Pavese, 2007
Assessment methods
Written exam
Further information
None
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