65787 - Anatomy of Organs and Nervous System

Academic Year 2014/2015

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 8766)

Learning outcomes

The students are awaited to have eventually basic knowledge of splancnology and nervous system aimed at the undestanding of locomotion

Course contents

Nervous Tissue

The Spinal Cord and Spinal Nerves

The Brain and Cranial Nerves

The Autonomic Nervous System

Sensory, Motor, and Integrative Systems

The Special Senses

The Endocrine System

The Cardiovascular System: The Blood

The Cardiovascular System: The Heart

The Cardiovascular System: Blood Vessels and Hemodynamics

The Lymphatic System and Immunity

The Respiratory System

The Digestive System

The Urinary System

Readings/Bibliography

Martini/Timmons/Tallisch: Anatomia Umana - EdiSES (quinta edizione)

Teaching methods

Lectures with extensive use of images, such as to facilitate the acquisition of fundamental anatomical basis through the stimulation of visual memory. The course is divided into a series of lectures which are accompanied by practical exercises.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Lecture using computer presentations, laboratory dissection, models and computer programs

Office hours

See the website of Matilde Yung Follo