CODE 100537 ACADEMIC YEAR 2022/2023 CREDITS 2 cfu anno 1 EDUCAZIONE PROFESSIONALE 9280 (L/SNT2) - GENOVA SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR BIO/14 LANGUAGE Italian TEACHING LOCATION GENOVA SEMESTER 2° Semester MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di: MEDICAL SCIENCES TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB AIMS AND CONTENT AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES The teaching of pharmacology with a focus on psychotropic drugs is aimed to offer the basic notions about the correct use of psychotropic drugs, their mechanism of action, and their side effects. Students will be able to learn the pharmacological approaches that more often are used to treat patients affected by mood, affectivity, and behavior disorders. In particular, students will be able to: Learn the most common treatments for patients with psychotropic drugs Identify the early signal of drug overdose and learn the most important life-supporting pharmacological approaches for each of these specific situations. Discuss with patients about the necessity for pharmacological intervention, and the possible side effects, warning them about the risk of abuse of psychoactive drugs Recognize the signs of a possible intoxication with drugs of abuse. TEACHING METHODS The teaching of Pharmacology (with focuses on psychotropic drugs) will be held as frontal lessons SYLLABUS/CONTENT Program and topics. General pharmacology Pharmacokinetics Pharmacodynamics Basic concepts of neuropharmacology Clinical neuropharmacology Opiates in the therapy of pain Antidepressant Anxiolytics Antipsychotics Drugs of abuse RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY The topic discussed during the font lessons will be available as PDF files in aulaweb section of unige website. TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD STEFANO THELLUNG DE COURTELARY Ricevimento: Meetings will students will be held at ex inst. of Pharmacology Viale Benedetto XV, 2. Genova, ground floor Phone +39 0103538884. . email: stefano.thellung@unige.it Students may also want to use the platform Microsoft teams aro0gzd . Exam Board CLAUDIO BRUNO (President) FEDERICO CARBONE STEFANO THELLUNG DE COURTELARY DONATELLA PANATTO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course) LESSONS LESSONS START lessons will be held starting from March 2023 Class schedule The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy EXAMS EXAM DESCRIPTION The exam will be held in form of interview ASSESSMENT METHODS Interviews will be solely focused on the topics that have been discussed during the course. They will be addressed to estimate the capacity of the students to critically evaluate the pathological situations that require the use of psychotropic drugs. The capacity to discuss the most useful neuropharmacological approach according to the clinical characteristics of the patients will be considered worthy of the highest score.
