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Psychobiology
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Psychobiology
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- NEU0273D
- Teachers
- Lorenzo Pia (Lecturer)
Francesca Garbarini (Lecturer) - Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Related or integrative
- Credits/Recognition
- 2
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- M-PSI/02 - psychobiology and physiological psychology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Optional
- Type of examination
- Written
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Psychological neurosciences (NEU0273)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The course aims at giving advanced knowledge of the approaches, principles, and methodologies within the domain of Psychobiology and Neuropsychology
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Results of learning outcomes
- Understanding pros and cons of any of the techniques presented during the course
- Understanding the basic principles of the neuropsychological approach
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Program
- The scientific method
- The principles of the techniques in Psychobiology (e.g., Convergence & complementarity, Direct & indirect methods, Morphology & functionality, Spatial & temporal resolution)
- Overview of some key techniques (e.g., Behavior, Immersive virtual reality, Single-unit recording, Electroencephalography, Event-related potentials, Magnetoencephalography, Direct cortical intraoperative stimulation)
- Introduction to neuropsychology: historical perspective and anatomo-clinical correlation
- Neuropsychological deficit of space representation: Neglect
- Neuropsychological deficit of motor awareness: Anosognosia for hemiplegia; Anarchic Hand
- Neuropsychological deficit of body representation: Somatoparaphrenia, Pathological Embodiment
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Course delivery
- Frontal lessons (with slides and audio-video materials), presentation/active discussion
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Learning assessment methods
- The exam will be administered in a written form in presence through the Moodle platform, and it will last 35 minutes
- It will be made of 31 multiple-choice questions with four alternatives and only one correct response
- Each correct answer will count as one point, whereas each wrong answer/no answer will count as zero. The cut-off to pass the exam is 18 correct answers
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Support activities
- Reception time of the professor
Suggested readings and bibliography
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Notes
- The material for the exam consists of slides and papers (available on the teaching web page) as well as the frontal lessons held by the professor on them
- Enroll
- Open
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