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Psychiatry
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Psychiatry
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Academic year 2025/2026
- Course ID
- NEU0272A
- Teachers
- Paola Rocca (Lecturer)
Giuseppe Maina (Lecturer) - Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Elective
- Credits/Recognition
- 5
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MEDS-11/A - Psychiatry
SSD: MED/25 - psychiatry - Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Written and oral (optional)
- Type of learning unit
- modulo
- Modular course
- Clinical Neurosciences II (NEU0272)
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
- To provide students with practically useful advice on epidemiology, signs and symptoms, course, outcome, and treatment of psychiatric disorders;
- To deepen the diagnosis, signs and symptoms of mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, anxiety disorders, and personality disorders;
- To give an overview on etiology of psychiatric disorders and on the stress diathesis model: genetic, biologic psychosocial and environmental;
- To provide knowledge on the clinical psychopharmacology of antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and benzodiazepines and to specify their clinical indications;
- To show the main characteristics of psychotherapeutic techniques and their applications in clinical practice.
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Results of learning outcomes
- Recognizing signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders;
- Knowledge of the main treatments in psychiatry: medications and psychosocial interventions;
- Ability to discuss the stress diathesis model in psychiatry and the relationship between psychiatry and neurosciences.
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Program
- Mood disorders;
- Schizophrenia and related disorders;
- Anxiety disorders and related disorders;
- Personality disorders;
- Other psychiatric disorders;
- Treatments: Psychopharmacological treatments and psychotherapy;
- Stress diathesis model in psychiatry.
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Course delivery
Face-to-face lessons with teaching materials including recent articles that will be presented to the students. During the lectures students are invted to contibute wit a discussion on the topics explained. Some videos describing the point of view of patients will be shown in order to give to the students a subjectvie point of view of the mental disorders.
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Learning assessment methods
The psychiatry exam (Module of Psychiatry) will be a written test (multiple choice questions).
An oral examination can be considered in addition to the written exam.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Textbook of Psychiatry, seventh edition
- Year of publication:
- 2019
- Publisher:
- The American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- Author:
- M.D. Roberts, Laura Weiss, M.D. Hales, Robert E., M.d. Yudofsky, Stuart C.
- Required:
- No
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