Enrollment year
2022/2023
Academic discipline
MED/39 (CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Course
PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (12/02/2024 - 31/05/2024)
Lesson hours
36 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Have basic knowledge of developmental anatomy and neurophysiology
Learning outcomes
• Knowing the basis of the neurological and psychiatric semeiology in children and adolescents
• Knowing the major disorders in child neuropsychiatry:
- epidemiology
- etiopatogenesis
- symptoms
- diagnostic issues
- treatment
- rehabilitation
Course contents
• Basis of the neurological and psychiatric semeiology in children and adolescents
• Infantile cerebral palsy
• Intellectual disability and cognitive phenotypes of specific syndromes
• Epilepsy and specific epileptic phenotypes in developmental age
• Convulsions and seizure management
• Autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders
• The neuropsychology of developmental delay
• Neuromuscular disorders (Spinal Amyotrophy, Neuropaties, Miastenia Gravis, dystrophinopathies)
Teaching methods
Lessons and video sessions:
The frontal lessons will be integrated with interactive moments in which the students will be trained in the observation and description of the semiology of neurological manifestations, underlining in particular how the exercise of observation and description are essential for appropriate interpretation from a multi professional approach.
Reccomended or required readings
Lecture slides will be provided.
Suggested child neuropsychiatry texts:
- Lanzi Balottin - Argomenti di Neuropsichiatria Infantile - Fifth Edition - Italian University Press
- Roberto Militerni - Neuropsichiatria Infantile - Sixth Edition - Idelson Gnocchi
- Alexis Arzimanoglou – Aicardi’s Diseases of the Neurvous System in Childhood – 4th Edition – Mac Keith Press
- D. Marcelli. - Psicopatologia del bambino - 2013 - Masson ed.
Assessment methods
Written exam with 15 multiple choice questions and 2 open questions
The student must demonstrate that they have integrated the knowledge acquired and have thus achieved the educational objectives of the course.
Sustainable development goals - Agenda 2030