84571 - Neurology (Introductory)

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)

Course contents

  1. Neurological signs and symptoms
  2. Neurophysiological exams used in the diagnosis of neurological disorders
  3. Chorea
  4. Parkinson's disease
  5. neuromuscular diseases
  6. multiple sclerosis and other demyelinating diseases
  7. Epilepsy and syncope
  8. dementia
  9. cerebrovascular diseases

Teaching methods

Interactive presentations to enhance learning of main neurological disorders and correct approach to the neurological patient and appropriate usage of different neurophysiological techniques

Assessment methods

Periodic assessment of learning and final exam with 2 questions about the main neurological diseases and neurophysiological techniques used to assess them (ie EEG for epilepsy and coma, evoked potentials for inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the CNS)

Teaching tools

Lesson recordings and pdf or powerpoint presentations

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Lugaresi

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.