Medicine and Surgery

Neurological objective examination. Assistive tools for diagnosis: notions of electroencephalography, electromyography, and evoked potentials. Cerebrovascular diseases: outline of anatomy, blood flow and cerebral metabolism, epidemiology, etiology, clinical pictures, diagnostic pathway, primary and secondary prevention, principles of surgical therapy, neurorehabilitation. Encephalopathies: Acquired metabolic encephalopathies, toxic encephalopathies and other types of encephalopathies. Epilepsy: epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology, classification and main clinical pictures, diagnosis, outline of therapy. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases: epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation of disease, prognosis, diagnostic criteria, the outline of therapy. Headache and other facial pains: international classification, distinction in primary and secondary, possible diagnostic aids to differential diagnosis, craniofacial algia (trigeminal neuralgia). Nervous system tumors: epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical pictures, signs of neuroimaging, general principles of therapy. Dementia: Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, vascular dementia. Parkinson's disease and other extrapyramidal disorders: epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, pathological anatomy, clinical pictures, instrumental aids to diagnosis, prognosis, signs of therapy. Ataxias: hereditary ataxias, acquired ataxias, sporadic ataxias, pathogenesis, clinical and epidemiological aspects. Hereditary spastic paraparesis. Myopathies: classification, clinical manifestations, progressive and congenital muscular dystrophies, metabolic myopathies, general principles of treatment, physical and respiratory therapy. Myasthenia gravis. Diseases of the motor neuron: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, diseases of the second motoneuron. Diseases of the spinal cord: syringomyelia, Arnold-Chiari syndrome. Peripheral neuropathies. Cranio-spinal traumas: cranial traumas and their complications, spinal traumas. Elements of neurorehabilitation.

The prerequisites to follow the course are related to the degree of knowledge of anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as the physiology of the nervous system.

Il Bergamini di neurologia - Luca Durelli,Roberto Mutani,Leonardo Lopiano, Editore: Cortina (Torino) Neurologia - Fazio - Loeb, Società Editrice Universo La neurologia della Sapienza - Alfredo Berardelli, Giorgio Cruccu, Casa editrice Esculapio

Lezioni in presenza

The learner will be asked to perform a bedside neurological history and objective examination of a patient and will be evaluated. This practical evaluation will contribute to the final oral examination grade. To Pass the test student must obtain a note of 18/30 for each subject of the integrated teach. Student must possess a sufficient knowledge of the program. To obtain a note of 30/30 with distinction student must possess an excellent knowledge of the whole program using a correct terminology to expose the topics.

Il Bergamini di neurologia - Luca Durelli,Roberto Mutani,Leonardo Lopiano, Editore: Cortina (Torino) Neurologia - Fazio - Loeb, Società Editrice Universo La neurologia della Sapienza - Alfredo Berardelli, Giorgio Cruccu, Casa editrice Esculapio

Neurological objective examination. Assistive tools for diagnosis: notions of electroencephalography, electromyography, and evoked potentials. Cerebrovascular diseases: outline of anatomy, blood flow and cerebral metabolism, epidemiology, etiology, clinical pictures, diagnostic pathway, primary and secondary prevention, principles of surgical therapy, neurorehabilitation. Encephalopathies: Acquired metabolic encephalopathies, toxic encephalopathies and other types of encephalopathies. Epilepsy: epidemiology, pathophysiology, etiology, classification and main clinical pictures, diagnosis, outline of therapy. Multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases: epidemiology, etiology, clinical presentation of disease, prognosis, diagnostic criteria, the outline of therapy. Headache and other facial pains: international classification, distinction in primary and secondary, possible diagnostic aids to differential diagnosis, craniofacial algia (trigeminal neuralgia). Nervous system tumors: epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical pictures, signs of neuroimaging, general principles of therapy. Dementia: Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, frontotemporal lobar degeneration, vascular dementia. Parkinson's disease and other extrapyramidal disorders: epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, pathological anatomy, clinical pictures, instrumental aids to diagnosis, prognosis, signs of therapy. Ataxias: hereditary ataxias, acquired ataxias, sporadic ataxias, pathogenesis, clinical and epidemiological aspects. Hereditary spastic paraparesis. Myopathies: classification, clinical manifestations, progressive and congenital muscular dystrophies, metabolic myopathies, general principles of treatment, physical and respiratory therapy. Myasthenia gravis. Diseases of the motor neuron: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, diseases of the second motoneuron. Diseases of the spinal cord: syringomyelia, Arnold-Chiari syndrome. Peripheral neuropathies. Cranio-spinal traumas: cranial traumas and their complications, spinal traumas. Elements of neurorehabilitation.

The prerequisites to follow the course are related to the degree of knowledge of anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous system, as well as the physiology of the nervous system.

The training is practical and therefore does not involve the adoption of teaching texts.

The student must have attended at least 80% of the classes.

Ability to autonomously perform a complete neurological physical examination. Identification of neurological signs and symptoms in order to make a correct syndromic and disease diagnosis.