2016/2017

2017/2018

DM270

M-PSI/02 (PSYCHOBIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF BRAIN AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

2°

2nd semester (19/02/2018 - 06/06/2018)

9

54 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN TEST

TORALDO FRANCESCO (titolare) - 9 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
§ Chemical control of behaviour:
- Hypothalamus
- Autonomous Nervous System
- Diffuse modulator neurotransmitter systems
§ Cerebral rhythms
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Sleep and dreams
- Cerebral clocks
§ Neurophysiological basis of emotions
§ 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

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

-Slides shown during the lectures (which will be made available online in due course: psicologia.unipv.it, "area download", "materiale didattico", "toraldo", "psicologia fisiologica")


[Part A] -Bear MF, Connors BW, Paradiso MP
Esplorando il cervello (Masson; 3° Edizione, 2007)
Cap 1 Introduzione alle Neuroscienze
Cap 15 Il controllo chimico del cervello e del comportamento
Cap 18 I meccanismi cerebrali delle emozioni
Cap 19 I ritmi del cervello e il sonno
Cap 21 L’attenzione
Cap 24 I sistemi di memoria* [to be integrated with further material provided during the lectures]
Cap 25 I meccanismi molecolari dell’apprendimento e della memoria – solo pp. 789-798.

[Part B] -Vallar G, Papagno C
Manuale di Neuropsicologia (Il Mulino; 2° Edizione, 2011)
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 213-222 (ad integrazione di cap 21 Bear)
Cap 13 Agnosie
Cap 14 I disturbi visuo-spaziali
Cap 16 I disturbi esecutivi
Cap 17 La sindrome da disconnessione callosale
*Moreover: supplementary material on dyslexias and dysgraphias, provided during the lectures


PSICOLOGIA FISIOLOGIA 5 credits – code [52936] – academic years before and including 2009-2010

-Only Part A above

NEUROPSICOLOGIA 5 credits – code [52939] - academic years before and including 2009-2010

-Only Part B above

Written, multiple-choice exam.

Please note that starting from the first exam of January 2018, students will be allowed to reject a "sufficient" (18/30 or higher) grade only once; the second "sufficient" grade will be compulsorily recorded. Rejected-grade count will start in January 2018.

For more information, please visit the web site: http://psicologia.unipv.it/, “area download”, “materiale didattico”, “toraldo”, “psicologia fisiologica”.