03668 - Neurology

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in School of Dentistry (cod. 8204)

Learning outcomes

The students will be able to recognize neurological disorders of the central and peripheral nervous system and to understand their physiopathology, ethiology and treatment

Course contents

Approach to the neurological patient
Cognitive functions
Comi
Motor system and motor syndromes
Sensory system and sensory syndromes
Balance and coordination system
Cranial nerves
Headaches and facial pain
Mononeuropathies and polyneuropathies
Cerebrovascular pathologies
Dementias
Epileptic syndromes
Transient loss of consciousness
Degenerative encephalopathies

Movement disorders

Parkinson's disease and atypical parkinsonism

Sleep disorders

Neurological emergencies
Rachycentesis and CSF diagnostics
Demyelinating diseases
Encephalitis and meningitis
Myasthenia and myastheniform syndromes
Motor neuron diseases
Degenerative muscle diseases
Inflammatory muscle diseases

 

Readings/Bibliography

Clinica Neurologica (P.Pazzaglia); ed.Esculapio

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

oral examination

Teaching tools

slides

Office hours

See the website of Giovanna Calandra Buonaura