AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The course aims to provide the foundation for an understanding of psychiatric disorders, both in etiopathogenetic aspects than in symptomatic and psycho-pathological.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of the course is to provide the basis for a knowledge of psychiatric disorders, both in the pathogenic and in the symptomatic and psycho-pathological aspects. The student must be able to define psychiatric pathologies and to describe the different symptoms that characterize them. He must also be able to distinguish between physiological expressions of the psyche and pathological manifestations. He must have mastered a precise technical language.

TEACHING METHODS

verbal examination of two modules in the same session

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course consists of two modules:

Several of Psychiatry addresses
Ethno-psychiatry nods
Semeiotics

Disorders of perception (intensity, quality, hallucinations)
Memory disorders (quantitative, qualitative)
Thought disorders (disorders of form, content disorders)
Disorders of intelligence (intelligence alterations to organic brain damage, intelligence alterations in psychiatric syndromes)
Affective disorders
Disorders psychomotor behavior
Disturbances of consciousness (the state of consciousness disorders, disorders of ego consciousness)
Diagnostic Elements
Mental status examination
Biological Problems in Psychiatry
Morphological and functional bases of the Central Nervous System

Psychiatric syndromes
Anxiety disorders
Somatoform disorders and eating behavior
Personality disorders
Psychosexual syndromes
Psychoactive substance use disorders
Mood disorders
Schizophrenic disorders and other psychotic disorders
Psychorganic syndromes
Outline of somatic therapies and psychotherapies

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

F. Giberti, R. Rossi, Manuale di Psichiatria, Piccin e Vallardi, Padova, 2005

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

GIOVANNI DEL PUENTE (President)

ALESSANDRO CAMISASSI

LESSONS

LESSONS START

February 2017

Class schedule

PSYCHIATRY

EXAMS

Exam schedule