FORENSIC NEUROSCIENCE
Stampa
Enrollment year
2020/2021
Academic year
2020/2021
Regulations
DM270
Academic discipline
M-PSI/02 (PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Course
PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Year of study
Period
2nd semester (15/02/2021 - 11/06/2021)
ECTS
6
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Language
English
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Teacher
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the neurobiological correlates of cognitive and emotional processes is required.
Learning outcomes
This course will provide knowledge concerning Forensic Neuroscience. The course is addressed to students aiming at acquiring methodological instruments to apply when law and Neuroscience interact.
Course contents
 Basic Clinical and Forensic Nuroscience
 Interaction between the patient and the neuropsychologist
 Tests and Scales of Cognitive and Forensic Neuropsychology
 The problem of simulation: how to understand this behaviour?
 Physiological and pathological aspects of emotions: symptoms and diagnostic tools
 Legal aspects in Forensic Neuropsychology
 Capacity of discernment / free will / decision making
 Entitlement to drive: a complex cognitive concept – the problem of dementia
 Neuroethics and Neuroscience
 Good Clinical Practice

The course will provide theoretical concepts, examples of the principal behavioural and instrumental tools (neuroimaging) and will also include presentation of emblematic cases.
Teaching methods
Teaching, videos, student group presentations, journal club.
Reccomended or required readings
Papers : reviews, legal cases, research reports
Assessment methods
Written and oral exams
Further information
=The teaching course will be executed with the Zoom.Us platform, except the students' presentation that will be done in presence.
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