Enrollment year
2020/2021
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
Period
2nd semester (15/02/2021 - 11/06/2021)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
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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