70967 - Interactions between Pain, Interoception and Vegetative Nervous System

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Learning outcomes

Developing an understanding of : autonomic nervous system functions and diseases, visceral pain and autonomic nervous system interactions, testing of autonomic cardiovascular function, genitourinary function, thermoregulation and its sleep-wake modulation. Developing skills in the diagnosis and therapy of autonomic dysfunctions and visceral pain.

Course contents

  • Nociception
  • Nociceptive and Autonomic Nervous Systems connections
  • The chronic pain
  • Primary headaches as a model of connections between nociceptive and autonomic nervous systems
  • Facial pains as a model of neuropathic pain

Teaching methods

Traditional taught lectures

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

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