- Docente: Pietro Cortelli
- Credits: 4
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
Students will learn the clinical method for the appropriate management of the most prevalent neurological diseases
Course contents
Organization of the motor system, sensitive system, cranial nerves, pain and headache, movement disorders, neuromuscular disorders, motoneuron diseases, neuropathy, neurodegenerative diseases.
Readings/Bibliography
Clinica Neurologica. Pazzaglia. Esculapio Cod. 1029 VII Edizione Ott. 2008
Neurologia. J. Cambier, M. Masson, H. Dehen, C. Masson. Elsevier Cod: el3107. Edizione sett 2009
Core Curriculum Malattie del Sistema Nervoso. Ferrarese Carlo, Mac Graw Hill web site. 431 pag. Edizione 2011.
Neurologia. Gian Camillo Manzoni e Paola Torelli. Esculapio. Formato 19×26,5 in brossura Pag. 496 ISBN: 9788874884346 - Febbraio 2012
Teaching methods
Lectures, clinical case presentations, comments on sessions with discussion panels, hands-on sessions
Assessment methods
The final examination evaluates the degree of understanding of the main learning targets of the course:
-knowledge of the clinical and diagnostic path of the main neurological disorders
-knowledge of the main treatment of neurological disorders in the light of the specific physiopathology
- knowledge of the principles of the neurophysiological lab.
The final vote of the Course is obtained by averaging the result of 3 questions on the main topics of the Course
Teaching tools
Video projector and PC; discussion of clinical cases and video session explicative of neurological disorders
Office hours
See the website of Pietro Cortelli