Educational objectives: - to provide an overview on functioning modalities of the nervous siystem in its motor, sensorial and integrative activities; - to illustrate the clinical picture of and the clinical approaches to the main neurological diseases, with a specific interest for those that are more amenable to a rehabilitative approach. At the end of the classes, the student will be able to: - understand the meaning and the nature of the symptoms of the main neurological diseases; - formulate the main differential diagnoses by means of the functional examination, the critical analysis of signs/symptoms with the support of the main instrumental investigations.
Course Prerequisites
Knwoledge of basic anatomy and physiology of the nervous system
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures with slides presentations and videos
Assessment Methods
Written modality with a mix of multiple-choice and free-text questions
Texts
- Neurologia per i corsi di laurea in professioni sanitarie Pierluigi Bertora. Ed. Piccin 2015 - Lecture presentations
Contents
The Motor System, the Sensory System and their Integration Semeiotics of the Nervous System The Functional Neurological Examination Neurodegenerative Diseases Cerebrovascular Diseases Demyelinating Diseases Coma Diseases of the Peripheral Nervous System
