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Child neuropsychiatry
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Child neuropsychiatry
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Academic year 2022/2023
- Course ID
- NEU0272B
- Teacher
- Prof. Federico Amianto (Lecturer)
- Modular course
- Clinical neurosciences II (NEU0272)
- Year
- 2nd year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 1
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- MED/39 - child neuropsychiatry
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Obligatory
- Type of examination
- Written and oral (optional)
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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 main neuropsychiatric disorders;
- To deepen the diagnosis, signs and symptoms of mail neurodevelopmental disorders (autism and ADHD), eating disorders and other neuropsychiatric disorders, neuromuscular disorders;
- To give an overview on etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and on the bio-psycho-social model: biologic, psychological and social;
- To provide knowledge on the clinical psychopharmacology of therapy to these clinical conditions;
- To show the main psychotherapeutic and rehabilitative techniques and their applications in clinical practice.
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Results of learning outcomes
- Recognizing signs and symptoms of described neuropsychiatric disorders;
- Knowledge of the main treatments in neuropsychiatry: medications, psychotherapy and other psychosocial interventions;
- Ability to discuss the bio-psycho-social model in neuropsychiatry and the relationship between neuropsychiatric disorders and neurosciences.
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Course delivery
Interactive face-to-face lessons with teaching matherials (slides and integrative research papers where indicated)
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Learning assessment methods
The neuropsychiatry exam (Module of Neuropsychiatry) will be a written test (multiple choice questions with 4 questions, only one true, non penality for wrong-blank questions).
An oral examination can be considered in addition to the written exam on judjement of the teacher.
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Program
- Autism spectrum disorders;
- Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder;
- Eating disorders;
- Neuromuscoalar disorders;
- Other neuropsychiatric disorders;
- Treatments: Psychopharmacological treatments, psychotherapy, rehabilitative and family treatments;
- Biopsychosocial model in neuropsychiatry.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- Swaiman's Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice 6th edition
- Year of publication:
- 2017
- Publisher:
- Elesevier
- Author:
- Swaiman
- Required:
- No
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- Book
- Title:
- Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
- Year of publication:
- 2015
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Author:
- Thapar et al.
- Required:
- No
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ICAPAP, Textbook of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2019; a freely delivered text on the site of ICAPAP society
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Note
the slides presented during the lessons will be available to participants and will represent the basis of attendants' learning
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