Medicine and Surgery "A" - Roma Azienda Policlinico Umberto I

Activity type

Discipline neurologiche

SSD

MED/37

Year

5th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

12.5 classroom hours

Lecturers

MARCO FIORELLI

Activity type

Discipline neurologiche

SSD

MED/26

Year

5th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

3

Hours distribution

32.5 classroom hours, 5 others hours

Lecturers

GIOVANNI FABBRINI
DANILO TONI
ANTONELLA CONTE
MATTEO BOLOGNA

Activity type

Discipline neurologiche

SSD

MED/27

Year

5th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

12.5 classroom hours

Lecturers

ANTONINO RACO

General Teaching Objectives By the end of the course the student must:
Know clinical and instrumental diagnostics of diseases of the nervous system
Know how to carry out the therapeutic action suitable for diseases of the nervous system
Be aware of the medico-legal aims and implications of the actions performed.

Teaching the clinical features and the proper diagnostics techniques (either clinical or instrumental) of the central and peripheral nervous system diseases. To teach the appropriate therapies in these conditions. Be aware of the purpose and medical-legal implications of these acts.

Module: Neuroradiology
N/D
Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY
N/D

Basic knowledge of the major anatomical and functional properties of the central and peripheral nervous system.

Module: Neuroradiology
Contents:
Introduction to the course, the motor system, the sensory system, the cranial nerves, movement disorders, neuroimaging, brain tumors, consciousness and its disorder, higher cognitive functions and dementia, neuromuscular diseases, neurophysiological techniques including electromyography/electroneurography and evoked potentials, cerebrovascular diseases, multiple sclerosis and the analysis of cerebrospinal fluid, epilepsy, sleep disorders and electroencephalography, Traumatic brain injury, hydrocephalus, meningitis and encephalitis, headaches.

APP:
Professional activities will include attendance to a VIDEO-EEG laboratory in the Department Human Neurosciences during recording of an exam in groups of 4 students. Students will see how recording is performed, and basic concepts of EEG readings will be explained.


Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY
N/D

Module: Neuroradiology
Textbook (suggested):
- Clinical Neurology, 4th Edition; Fowler T.J.,‎ Scadding J. W.,‎ Losseff N.,‎ Scadding J.W. ISBN 10: 0340990708
- La Neurologia della Sapienza 3rd Edition; Berardelli Alfredo. ISBN: 9788874888726
- The Netter Collection: Nervous System Part I Brain and Part II Spinal and Peripheral Motor and Sensory Systems
- Neurology, Queen Square Textbook edited by C Clarke, R Howard, M Rossor, S Shorvon; Wiley Blackwell



Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY
N/D

Module: Neuroradiology
N/D
Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY
N/D

Module: Neuroradiology
N/D
Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY
N/D

Mandatory
Paper-based recording with student’s signature

Open questions and answers

Module: Neuroradiology
N/D
Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY
N/D

Module: Neuroradiology
N/D
Module: NEUROLOGY
N/D
Module: NEUROSURGERY