- Docente: Domenico Berardi
- Credits: 4
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
Psychiatry course trains students to recognize the major mental disorders and to set an appropriate therapeutic project. In particular, at the end of the course the student knows the clinical interview fundamentals, psychopathology and major psychiatric disorders in the medicine practice, both in hospital and outpatient settings. The student acquires knowledge on the relationship between the internal medical or surgical disorders and mental disorders, on psychosomatic medicine and on consultation-liaison psychiatry related issues. The student is able to make a diagnosis of mental disorder and has a basic knowledge of several specialized sectors of psychiatry, including drug addiction psychiatry, psychogeriatrics, psychiatry of adolescence, eating disorders. Regarding treatment, he is able to establish a doctor-patient relationship and to use properly the psychiatric drugs, and he knows the introductory elements of psychodynamic psychiatry. Furthermore, the students acquires knowledge of the psychiatric legislation and organization of psychiatric care in Italy in order to be able to collaborate with the local hospital and specialist services. Finally, the student knows the biopsychosocial model applied to mental disorders and the major psychosocial and rehabilitational treatments.
Course contents
Mental status examination
Psychopathology of delirium
Indications and procedures of Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
Law 180 and psychiatric assistance in Italy
Positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Onset and course of schizophrenia
Epidemiology of schizophrenia and psychosis
Etiology and pathogenesis of schizophrenia
Antipsychotics: mechanism of action, therapeutic and anti-therapeutic effects
Drug treatment and psychosocial treatment schizophrenia
Organic psychosis (delirium)
Alcohol and substances related diseases
Panic Disorder
OCD
Post - traumatic stress disorder
Anxiolytic and hypnotic agents
Borderline Personality Disorder
Clinical depression
Etiology and pathogenesis of depression
Epidemiology of depression
Bio - psycho - social treatment for depression
Antidepressant drugs
Bipolar disorder and mood stabilizing drugs
Eating disorders
Readings/Bibliography
Siracusano A., (2014), Manuale di psichiatria, second edition. Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, Roma
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Office hours
See the website of Domenico Berardi