- Docente: Giuseppe Di Pellegrino
- Credits: 8
- SSD: M-PSI/02
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Giuseppe Di Pellegrino (Modulo 1) Andrea Serino (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Cesena
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Neurosciences and neuro-psychological rehabilitation (cod. 0989)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, the student knows the state-of-art human and animal research that uses neuroscience techniques to understand the cognitive and emotional aspects of the human mind and human behaviour
Course contents
The course is designed to provide advanced knowledge of the neural basis and functional mechanisms of human behaviour, and affective and cognitive processes, and the alteration of these processes in patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders, drawing on both theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions of current literature.
Special attention will be devoted to neuroanatomical circuits and mechanisms of neurochemical modulation, integrating different methodological approaches: behavioural, neurophysiological, psychopharmacological, computational and neuroimaging.
Specific contents:
Neural bases of attention
Neural bases of (multi)sensori-motor processes
Neural bases of space and body representation
Neural bases of self-consciousness
Brain mechanisms of cognitive and affective regulation of behavior
Neurophysiology of reward in animals and humans
Neural substrate of economic and moral decision-making
Neurobiology of anxiety and depression
Neuroscience perspectives on schizophrenia
Neuroscience of addiction
Readings/Bibliography
Scientific papers and other course materials for this course will be made available at the course website. These readings are mandatory to pass the final exam.
Suggested (not compulsory) readings: Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biology of the Mind by Michael S. Gazzaniga, Richard B. Ivry e George R. Mangun (mar. 2009)
Teaching methods
Each class meeting will include introductory reviews by faculty, student seminars based on recent literature, and final discussions. Thus, an active role in discussion is expected. Students are expected to read the assigned readings, and to come to class ready to participate with questions and a scientifically critical attitude
Assessment methods
Written exam with open-ended questions, as well as oral exam
Teaching tools
Slides(PowerPoint)
Office hours
See the website of Giuseppe Di Pellegrino
See the website of Andrea Serino