03668 - Neurology

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Orthopaedics techniques (cod. 8483)

Learning outcomes

The student will learn the pathogenesis of the main neurological diseases and the techniques of the neurological examination, the main diagnostic tools and therapeutic options

Course contents

1. the neurological examination

2. diagnostic tools

3. hyperkinetic movement disorders 

4. Parkinson's disease

5. main neuromuscular diseases

6. multiple sclerosis

7. epilepsy and syncope

8. Dementia

9. cerebro-vascular diseases

10.  Neurological rehabilitation with specific regard to multiple sclerosis

Teaching methods

frontal lessons and practical demonstrations

Assessment methods

oral examination exploring the abilities to treat neurologic patients especially affected by cognitive deficits and multiple sclerosis

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Lugaresi