Medicine and Surgery

Activity type

Discipline neurologiche

SSD

MED/37

Year

5th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

13 classroom hours

Lecturers

MARCO FIORELLI

Activity type

Discipline neurologiche

SSD

MED/27

Year

5th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

13 classroom hours

Lecturers

VINCENZO ESPOSITO

Activity type

Discipline neurologiche

SSD

MED/26

Year

5th year

Semester

1st semester

CFU

3

Hours distribution

38 classroom hours

Lecturers

GIOVANNI FABBRINI

Main teaching objectives:
Learn the clinical features and the proper diagnostics techniques (clinical and instrumental) of the central and peripheral nervous system diseases. Know the appropriate pharmacological and surgical therapies in these conditions. Be aware of the purpose and medical-legal implications of these acts. Develop a professional attitude to adopt professional behaviors in accordance with the principles of equity, effectiveness and efficiency and objectives to the national, regional and local healthcare planning. Develop a critical thinking in terms of Global Health, given that a number of health problems spill over national boundaries.

Learn the clinical features and the proper diagnostics techniques (clinical and instrumental) of the central and peripheral nervous system diseases. Know the appropriate pharmacological and surgical therapies in these conditions. Be aware of the purpose and medical-legal implications of these acts. Develop a professional attitude to adopt professional behaviors in accordance with the principles of equity, effectiveness and efficiency and objectives to the national, regional and local healthcare planning. Develop a critical thinking in terms of Global Health, given that a number of health problems spill over national boundaries.

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

Module: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 37
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: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 26
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, neurosurgery of the spine and the spinal cord




Module: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 27
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.

APPs:
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: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 37
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: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 26
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: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 27
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: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 37
N/D
Module: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 26
N/D
Module: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 27
N/D

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

Mandatory
Paper-based recording with student’s signature

Open questions and answers

Parkinson’s disease
Clinical assessment of dementias
Median nerve mononeuropathy
Hemorrhagic stroke

Module: Diseases of the nervous system - MED 37

• Topic 1: Neuroimaging in clinical neurology (28th October)

•  Intracranial Tumors (28th november)
  • Books: Clinical Neurology, 4th Edition; Fowler T.J.,‎ Scadding J. W.,‎ Losseff N.,‎ Scadding J.W. ISBN 10: 0340990708- La Neurologia della Sapienza, 3nrd Edition; Berardelli Alfredo - 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


• Traumatic Brain Injury (5th december)
  • Books: Clinical Neurology, 4th Edition; Fowler T.J.,‎ Scadding J. W.,‎ Losseff N.,‎ Scadding J.W. ISBN 10: 0340990708- La Neurologia della Sapienza, 3nrd Edition; Berardelli Alfredo - 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


• Neurosurgery
  of the Spine and Spinal Cord (12th december)
  • Books: Clinical Neurology, 4th Edition; Fowler T.J.,‎ Scadding J. W.,‎ Losseff N.,‎ Scadding J.W. ISBN 10: 0340990708- La Neurologia della Sapienza, 3nrd Edition; Berardelli Alfredo - 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

• Topic 1: Intorduction to Neurology. The neurological exam: specificities (3rd October)


• Topic 2: Epilepsy and EEG (10th October)


• Topic 3: Motor and sensory system (17th October)


• Topic 4: Stroke (21st October) 


• Topic 5: Higher functions and dementia (31st October)


• Topic 6: Movement disorders (7th November)


• Topic 7: Motoneuron diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders (11th November)


• Topic 8: Disorders of consciousness and metabolic encephalopathies (14th November)


• Topic 9: Headache (21st November)


• Topic 10: Meningities and encephalities (19th December)


• Topic 11: Neuromuscular disorders (9th January)


• Topic 12: Recovery lesson (16th January)