Diseases of the Nervous System

Part I: Elements of Pathophysiology and Semeiology for carrying out the neurological examination.
Collection of the neurological history
Motor functions
Sensitive functions
Upper nervous functions (Language, Apraxia, Agnosia, Disorders of space exploration and body scheme, Intellectual functions, Psychorganic syndromes)
Functions of the cranial and spinal nerves
Anatomy and functions of the vegetative nervous system
Complementary diagnostic tests (clinical neurophysiology, neuroradiology, CSF examination, neurosonology, neuropsychological evaluation, genetic tests, fundamentals of neuropathology)

Part II: Pathophysiological and clinical bases for diagnosis of a lesion site
Spinal cord syndromes
Midbrain, pons and medulla: anatomy and Syndromes
Cerebellar syndrome
Thalamic syndromes
Hypothalamic syndromes
Syndromes from impaired intracranial pressure
Disorders of consciousness (DOC) and coma
Neurovegetative syndromes

Part III: Knowledge of the main neurological diseases
Inflammatory diseases (meningitis and encephalitis)
Trauma of the brain and spinal cord
Vascular diseases
Cerebrovascular diseases
Vascular diseases of the Spinal Cord
Brain, spine and medullary tumors
Dementias
Diseases of the extrapyramidal system
Demyelinating diseases
Epilepsies and occasional epileptic seizures
Syncope
Headache and neuralgia of the head and face
Primary motor neuron diseases
Hereditary spastic ataxias and paraparesis
Toxic and physical diseases
Shortage diseases (Diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies)
Peripheral nerve diseases
Muscle diseases
Myasthenia gravis and myasthenic syndromes
Congenital diseases
Childhood encephalopathies
Inherited metabolic diseases
Diseases of the vegetative nervous system or dysautonomias
Sleep and its alterations
Neurological complications of internal diseases

Part IV: Principles of Neuro-rehabilitation, principles of neurosurgery, socio-health and organizational aspects.

- Intracranial hypertension and general traumatology concepts
- vascular pathologies of neurosurgical interest
- neuro-oncology
- hydrocephalus and spinal pathology

Introduction to Neurological Rehabilitation.
The individual neurological rehabilitation project.
The nociceptive and neuropathic pain.
The physiological basis of neurological rehabilitation: neuroplasticity and the mirror-neuron system.
The neuromotor and neurocognitive rehabilitation.
The rehabilitation of cerebro-vascular pathologies.
The rehabilitation of the main neurological disorders.