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CODE 68146
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/26
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • GENOVA
SEMESTER 2° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim is to present the main neurological signs and symptoms to students and provide general concepts of the most frequent neurological diseases with particular interest for those involving the visual apparatus and ocular motility.

 

TEACHING METHODS

Frontal lessons with use of slides.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Elements of anatomy and pathophysiology of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and Peripheral (PNS):

- cranial nerves; motor and sensory pathways; motor coordination

Clinical features of the most frequent neurological diseases:

-Cerebrovascular Diseases

-Multiple sclerosis

-Neurodegenerative diseases: Parkinson's disease and main forms of dementia.

- Headaches and cranial neuralgia

- Epilepsy and syncopes

- Infectious diseases (ophthalmic herpes zoster)

- Intracranial hypertension, trauma, hernias and brain tumors

- Neuromuscular diseases with interest for diseases involving ocular motility

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Neurologia di Fazio e Loeb (Soc. Ed. Universo -SEU-)

Teacher's slides

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

CHRISTIAN CORDANO

ELISA DE GRANDIS

ALICE LARONI

MICHELE IESTER (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

II semester

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral

It is necessary to register fort the exam at: https://servizionline.unige.it/studenti/esami/

 

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exams on topics revised during lessons to assess the knowledge acquired and determine the students' ability to communicate ideas in coherent sentences.

Exam schedule

Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note
13/01/2025 13:00 GENOVA Orale
05/02/2025 13:00 GENOVA Orale
11/06/2025 13:00 GENOVA Orale
09/07/2025 13:00 GENOVA Orale
10/09/2025 13:00 GENOVA Orale