39666 - Neurology

Academic Year 2015/2016

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities (cod. 8036)

Course contents

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CENTRAL AND PERYPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM.

CLINICAL EVALUATION OF THE NEUROLOGIC PATIENT (HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION)

 FUNCTIONAL ABNORMALITIES OF THE MOTOR SYSTEM.

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (ALS) AND THE ROLE OF EXERCISE IN THE TREATMENT OF ALS

PARKINSON'S DISEASE AND THE ROLE OF EXERCISE IN THE TREATMENT OF THIS DISEASE

DISEASE OF THE NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION. THE ROLE OF PHISICAL EXERCISE IN MYASTENIA GRAVIS

MYOPATHIES. DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DISTROPHY AND THE ROLE OF EXERCISE IN THE TREATMENT OF DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DISTROPHY.

METABOLIC MYOPATHIES AND THE ROLE OF EXERCISE IN THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF THESE METABOLIC DISEASES.

DEMENTIA. EXERCISE IN AGING AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Readings/Bibliography

SLIDES FROM LESSONS

Teaching methods

SLIDES AND VIDEO PRESENTATION

Assessment methods

THE FINALWILL BE A WRITTEN TEST WITH MULTIPLE ANSWERS

Teaching tools

LECTURES

Office hours

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