00736 - Child Neuropsychiatry

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Professional Educator (for certified professional educators) (cod. 0478)

Learning outcomes

The aim of the course is for the student to learn about neurological and psychiatric disorders in chilhood and to contribute to a good knowledge in expectation of future working activity. 

Student will learn neurological and psychiatric disorders of childhood and also their diagnosis, pharmacological treatment and rehabilitation .

Course contents

Psychomotor development, cerebral palsy, learning disorders, language disorders, mental retardation, epilepsy and febrile convulsions, pervasive developmental disorders, attention deficit disorder, tic, mood disorders, anorexia and bulimia.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes.

Michele Roccella - Neuropsichiatria Infantile - Piccin, Padova.

Maurizio De Negri - Neuropsicopatologia dello sviluppo - Piccin, Padova.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

Examination.

Teaching tools

Video recording, PC.

Office hours

See the website of Antonia Parmeggiani