Medicine and Surgery

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.

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

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

Mandatory

Evaluation methods: oral examination.

Frontal teaching, integrative didactic activities (ADI), professional activities (APP), tutorials and seminars.