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CODE 68375
ACADEMIC YEAR 2023/2024
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/39
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 1° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

OVERVIEW

The course includes 1 formative credit corresponding to 10 hours of frontal teaching. It allows the student to acquire the theoretical bases related to neurological semeiology with particular reference to the developmental age.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know the main indications and techniques of child audiology. To know the main pathologies of the visual apparatus, in particular in relation to the subjects in the developmental age. To know the basic neuropsychiatric semeiotic in the developmental age and the classification of the principal disorders of the movement in the pediatric age, in relation to the possible pathological pictures. To know the main neurological diseases of the developmental age, in particular in relation to the subjects in the developmental age. Acquiring methods for defining, analyzing and framing psychic disabilities and psychic distress in its various forms; describe the treatment of discomfort and psychic disabilities and related psychopathologies through the multiple methodologies and techniques of clinical intervention. Acquire the elements for the management of an operator-user relationship, characterized by the encounter with an "other multi-problematic and different from

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

AIMS
Acquisition of the theoretical bases related to neurological semeiology with particular reference to the developmental age.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of the course the student will be able to recognize the theoretical bases related to neurological semeiology with particular reference to the

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

General principles of neurological examination

Specificity of neurological examination in developmental age

Neurological evaluation of motor functions

Neurological evaluation of sensitive functions

Principal pathological neurological signs (muscular hypotonia, muscular hypertonia, coordination disorders, ......)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Clinical pediatric neurology: a signs and symptoms approach Gerald M. Fenichel Elsevier Health Sciences; 6th edition

  • Diseases of the Nervous System in Childhood Jean Aicardi Mac Keith Press; 3rd edition Child Neurology John H. Menkes Lippincott Williams &Wilkins; 7th edition
  • Lorenzo Pavone, Martino Ruggieri Neurologia pediatrica Elsevier, II edizione
  • Neuropsichiatria dell'età evolutiva M. De Negri Piccin

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

EUGENIA DUFOUR (President)

ELISA DE GRANDIS

LINO NOBILI

STEFANO OTTOBONI

GIORGIO PERETTI

ALDO VAGGE

CRISTINA VENTURINO (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

october/november

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

oral

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The exam focuses on the topics covered during the lessons and consists in the evaluation of the acquisition of knowledge of the course topics, but also aims to assess the ability to deepen, the use of a correct terminology and the ability to expose the subject clearly and comprehensively.