NEUROLOGY
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- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2016/2017
- Teacher
- ERNESTO GASTALDO
- Credits
- 3
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- MED/26
Training objectives
- Provide a general overview about the functioning of the human nervous system that allows movement, with particular reference to the difficulties that patients may have on motor plan, distinguishing in particular diseases evolutionary (degenerative) from those that are not .
The informations are given to prepare the learner to a conscious approach of the neurobiological basis with both the healthy person with the neurological sick, in order to promote fine motor ability and then to improve their quality of life. The adopted perspective is therefore the possibility of a workout to motor activities with a playful component can provide both the healthy person that the neurological sick.
Provide the information necessary to address the neurological emergencies, from the most trivial to the most serious such as fainting like coma, with emphasis on etiology, clinical and maneuvers to be executed. Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of anatomy and physiology of central and peripheral nervous system, with particular focus on motor system.
Course programme
- - Introduction to Neurology: evolution, pathogenesis and prognosis of the most frequent neurological diseases
- Motion system: anatomo-functional elements. The lymbic system. The cortical motivational system. Interrelations of these systems in the movement.
- The Peripherical motor palsy: clinics, aetiology. Central motor palsy: clinics, aetiology.
- The Somatosensitive system. Its alterations and clinical consequences. Pain modulation system elements. Main painful pathologies.
- Ischemic and hemorragic cerebral stroke. Main left and right brain stroke clinical effects.
- The Extrapiramidal system: anatomophysiological and clinical elements. Parkinsons diseases, dystonia, ataxia.
The consciousness, non-temporary consciousness alterations: the coma.
Temporary concsiousness alterations: syncope, epileptic crisis, epilepsies
- Some paradigmatic neurological diseases: muscolar dystrophy, acute (Guillain Barrè syndrome) and cronic Polyneuropathies, myelopaties, Multuple Sclerosis, Alzheimer disease. Didactic methods
- Lectures with presentations, images, summary schemes and neurological patients videos.
Learning assessment procedures
- Oral exam with 3 questions related to various topics, duration 23-30 minutes, where basic information knowledge is evaluated, as well a common neurological terms use precision, the ability to infer consequences from acquired knowledge, in particular related to what could be useful for the future progression of the student.
Reference texts
- The teacher will provide the students with a reading list during the lectures.
