Medicine and Surgery

1. Generalities - Approach to the patient with neurological disease - Functional anatomy of the central and peripheral nervous system 2. Clinical and instrumental neurological semiotics. - Pyramidal syndrome - Extrapyramidal syndromes - Cerebellar syndromes - Sensory syndromes - Somesthetic syndromes - Cranial nerve injury syndromes - Brainstem syndromes - Medullary and cauda equina syndromes - Radicular, plexus and peripheral nerve syndromes - Myopathic and neuromuscular junction syndromes - Meningeal syndrome. Endocranial hypertension syndrome - Neurologic bladder - Neurovegetative syndromes - Behavioral syndrome from prefrontal lesion, parietal lesion, temporal lesion, callosal lesion, occipital lesion, thalamic lesion - Pathology of higher functions (aphasic, apraxic, agnosic, amnestic, dementia syndromes) - Disturbances of consciousness. Coma - Methodology of neurological evaluation in developmental age - Main neurophysiological investigation techniques (EEG, Evoked Potentials, EMG, ENG) - Neuroimaging techniques (CT, MRI). Dopplersonography - Laboratory diagnostics in neurology (CSF examination, neuroimmunology, neurogenetics) - Biopsies and histopathological examinations in neurology 3. Special pathology - Cerebrovascular diseases - Headaches and facial pain - Infections of the neuraxis and meninges - Demyelinating diseases - Epilepsy - Sleep pathology - Motor neuron disease - Extrapyramidal diseases - Ataxias - Dementias - Head and spinal cord trauma - Endocranial and endorachid expansive processes. - Toxic, metabolic and deficiency neurological diseases - Peripheral nerve diseases - Pathology of neuromuscular transmission - Muscle diseases Objectives of the professionalizing internship: Know how to independently perform a neurolgic history and neurological objective examination.

Di Fazio Loeb Neurologia 2 Volumi 4^ Edizione Loeb Favale

Mandatory

Oral written examination and practical test.

Di Fazio Loeb Neurologia 2 Volumi 4^ Edizione Loeb Favale