- Docente: Agostino Baruzzi
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Long cycle 2nd degree programme in Medicine (cod. 0080)
Learning outcomes
Drugs affecting the central nervous system are commonly prescribed by primary care physicians and specialists.
The course will outline the kinetic and dynamic features of the main classes of drugs and the biochemical foundations of neuropharmacology.
The aim is to provide a practical grounding for an accurate and rational assessment of treatment in relation to clinical impact and side effects and toxicity.
Course contents
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Pharmacological characteristics in relation to clinical use
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Pharmacodynamic characteristics in relation to therapeutic effects and
toxicity
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This information will lay the foundations for primary care physicians to
address the key aspects of treatment with anti-epileptic drugs,
headache medications, anxiolytics, antidepressants and antipsychotic
drugs.
Readings/Bibliography
Samuels M.A.
Manual of neurologic therapeutics 7th edtn.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2004
Goodman & Gilman's
The pharmacological basis of therapeutics 10th edtn.
Hardman J.G., L.E. Linbird, A.G. Gilman (eds)
McGraw Hill, 2001
Biochemical basis of neuropharmacology 8th edtn.
J.R. Cooper, F.E. Bloom, R.H. Roth (eds)
Oxford University Press, 2003
Teaching methods
Lectures
Assessment methods
Based on student's course attendance.
Teaching tools
Computer and digital projector for Power Point presentation.
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Agostino Baruzzi