2022/2023

2023/2024

DM270

M-PSI/02 (PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

1st semester (20/09/2023 - 12/01/2024)

9

54 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

PASOTTI FABRIZIO (titolare) - 3 ECTS
CRIVELLI DAMIANO - 6 ECTS

It is mandatory to have successfully passed the exam "Anatomo-physiological bases of psychicological processes".
Basic notions are required on: electrophysiology of membrane, spike, rest potentials, physiology of the neural system and of the sensory systems

To provide an overview of the neurophysiological and neuropsychological bases of human behaviour.

§ Introduction to Neuroscience
§ Cerebral rhythms
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Sleep and dreams
- Cerebral clocks
§ Neurophysiological basis of memory
· Memory and its disturbances:
· short term memory (STM) and long term memory (LTM)
· LTM and its disturbances: amnesia
· STM and its disturbances
§ Neuropsychology: introductive concepts
§ Behavioural methods in neuropsychology
§ Experimental and clinical data evaluation
§ Methodological fundaments in neuropsychology
§ Behavioural, electrophysiological and imaging methods of investigation
§ Neuropsychology of attention
§ Aphasia’s concept evolution
· neurological basis of language
· Written language and its disturbances: dyslexia and dysgraphia
§ Objects identification and its disturbances: agnosia
§ Motor programming disturbances: apraxia
§ Spatial cognition and its disturbances: unilateral neglect and other impairments
§ Behavioural organization and its disturbances: frontal syndrome

Official guidelines of the University will be followed.

PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGIA 9 credits – code [501413] – academic years 2010-2011 and following

-Bear MF, Connors BW, Paradiso MP
Esplorando il cervello (Masson; 4° Edizione, 2016)
Cap 19 I ritmi del cervello e il sonno
Cap 21 L’attenzione
Cap 24 I sistemi di memoria*
Cap 25 I meccanismi molecolari dell’apprendimento e della memoria (solo pp. 906-914)
*Moreover: supplementary material on the memory systems, provided during the lectures

-Vallar G, Papagno C
Manuale di Neuropsicologia (Il Mulino; 3° Edizione, 2018)
Cap 1 Introduzione alla Neuropsicologia
Cap 3 Gli esami strumentali nella neuropsicologia clinica
Cap 4 Elementi di neurologia
Cap 6 Afasie
Cap 8 I disturbi dell’elaborazione dei numeri e del calcolo
Cap 9 Aprassie
Cap 11 I disturbi della rappresentazione del corpo
Cap 12 Attenzione - solo pagine 251-265 (ad integrazione di cap 21 Bear)
Cap 13 Agnosie
Cap 14 I disturbi visuo-spaziali
Cap 15 I disturbi della consapevolezza di malattia: l’anosognosia
Cap 16 I disturbi esecutivi
Cap 17 La sindrome da disconnessione callosale
*Moreover: supplementary material on dyslexias and dysgraphias, provided during the lectures

A written, multiple-choice exam is given.

Even though you have the freedom to renounce a positive evaluation given, it is advisable not to refuse the vote more than once. In the case of refusal of a positive evaluation and a subsequent evaluation, the last evaluation obtained is required to be considered.