Neurobiology, Human Behaviour and Clinical Neuroscience (clerkship)
A.Y. 2024/2025
Learning objectives
Practical activities will be used to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures in the field, with different types of doctor-patient relationship and with patients with different diagnoses at different stages of the disease.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of the course students are expected to have knowledge of: - the anatomo-functional substrates of neurological functions - how to perform a neurological examination - how to approach and treat the acute neurological patient - how to approach and treat the "progressive" neurological patient - the rehabilitation of the neurological patient - the development and the neurology in infants - how to approach mental diseases in adults - how to approach mental disorders in adults in particular Addiction/Alcoholism, Eating and Mood Disorders and their related treatments - How to approach to Schizophrenia and psychotic spectrum: clinical features, classification and related disorders.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
To take the Neurobiology, Human Behavior and Clinical Neuroscience exam, students must have already passed all the exams of the first and second year (Fundamentals of Basic Sciences, Cells, Molecules and Genes 1 and 2, Human Body, Functions and Mechanisms of Diseases).
Students must recall the anatomy and physiology of the central and peripheral nervous system.
Students must recall the anatomy and physiology of the central and peripheral nervous system.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Student assessment is based on a combination of written and oral examinations. The written exam is a short essay (for the "Psychology" modules) and multiple-choice test focused on the topics of all the modules but Neurology and Mental Health. Only students who successfully pass the written test for all the discipline (3/5 correct answers) are allowed to take the oral examination of Neurology and Mental Health. Students may also access to the oral examination if they fail to pass one discipline as far as at least 40% of the response were correct in that discipline or if they pass at least 80% of all proposed tests. The oral of Neurology and Mental health can be taken separately but within the same academic year.
The final mark is the average of the marks obtained through the oral examinations weighted on the number of credits of the two disciplines. The exam is deemed to be passed successfully if the final grade is equal to or higher than 18/30. In the event of a full grade (30/30) honors (lode) may be granted with the consent of all the professors. The performance achieved in the asynchronous activity in neurology and Mental Health will be also considered for the score in these disciplines.
A passed written examination and each oral examination remains valid for the entire academic year. The written test and oral examination will cover all the topics covered by the seminars and the program.
Attendance is required to be allowed to take the exam. Unexcused absence is tolerated up to 34% of the course activities. University policy regarding excused illness is followed. Registration to the exam through SIFA is mandatory.
The final mark is the average of the marks obtained through the oral examinations weighted on the number of credits of the two disciplines. The exam is deemed to be passed successfully if the final grade is equal to or higher than 18/30. In the event of a full grade (30/30) honors (lode) may be granted with the consent of all the professors. The performance achieved in the asynchronous activity in neurology and Mental Health will be also considered for the score in these disciplines.
A passed written examination and each oral examination remains valid for the entire academic year. The written test and oral examination will cover all the topics covered by the seminars and the program.
Attendance is required to be allowed to take the exam. Unexcused absence is tolerated up to 34% of the course activities. University policy regarding excused illness is followed. Registration to the exam through SIFA is mandatory.
Mental health
Course syllabus
Mental health in adults. Clinical approach to Disorders of Thought and Delusions, Anxiety Disorders, Personality Disorders, Schizophrenic and Psychotic patients, mood disorders, abuse substance
Teaching methods
Case presentation, Videos. Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
Sims' Symptoms in the Mind 4th Edition. An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology. Elsevier
Brambilla P, Mauri MC, Altamura CA. Hallucinations in Psychoses and Affective Disorders. Springer.
Brambilla P, Marini. Brain Evolution, Language and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
Gabbard GO. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Fifth Edition. American Psychiatric Association Publishing
DSM 5, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, Fifth edition. Arlington: American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
Brambilla P, Altamura CA. Clinical Case in Psychiatry: Integrating Translational Neuroscience Approaches..Springer.
Soares JC, Brambilla P, Walss-Bass C. Bipolar Disorder Vulnerability. Elsevier.
Brambilla P. Manuale di Psichiatria Clinica. Minerva Medica. 2020
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY ANS PSYCHIATRIC NEUROSCIENCES
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Brambilla P. Manuale di Neuroscienze Psichiatriche e Computazionali. Minerva Medica. 2021
Selvaraj S, Brambilla P, Soares JC. Mood Disorders: Brain Imaging and Therapeutic Implications. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 2021.
Sims' Symptoms in the Mind 4th Edition. An Introduction to Descriptive Psychopathology. Elsevier
Brambilla P, Mauri MC, Altamura CA. Hallucinations in Psychoses and Affective Disorders. Springer.
Brambilla P, Marini. Brain Evolution, Language and Psychopathology in Schizophrenia. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
CLINICAL PSYCHIATRY
Gabbard GO. Psychodynamic Psychiatry in Clinical Practice, Fifth Edition. American Psychiatric Association Publishing
DSM 5, Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, Fifth edition. Arlington: American Psychiatric Association, 2013.
Brambilla P, Altamura CA. Clinical Case in Psychiatry: Integrating Translational Neuroscience Approaches..Springer.
Soares JC, Brambilla P, Walss-Bass C. Bipolar Disorder Vulnerability. Elsevier.
Brambilla P. Manuale di Psichiatria Clinica. Minerva Medica. 2020
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY ANS PSYCHIATRIC NEUROSCIENCES
Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Brambilla P. Manuale di Neuroscienze Psichiatriche e Computazionali. Minerva Medica. 2021
Selvaraj S, Brambilla P, Soares JC. Mood Disorders: Brain Imaging and Therapeutic Implications. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. 2021.
Neurology
Course syllabus
Neurology: The neurological examination of cranial nerves, motor and sensory, cortical functions
Clinical approach to: the patient with acute onset of neurological signs; confused patient; patient with pain in the head; patient with acute loss of consciousness; patient with fever and acute neurological impairment; patient with intracranial masses; patient with loss of memory, patient with motor and neuromuscular impairment and neuropathy; patient with brain impairment after an infectious disease or a tumor; patient with neurological respiratory insufficiency or dysphagia.
Basic and advanced neuroimaging.
Clinical approach to: the patient with acute onset of neurological signs; confused patient; patient with pain in the head; patient with acute loss of consciousness; patient with fever and acute neurological impairment; patient with intracranial masses; patient with loss of memory, patient with motor and neuromuscular impairment and neuropathy; patient with brain impairment after an infectious disease or a tumor; patient with neurological respiratory insufficiency or dysphagia.
Basic and advanced neuroimaging.
Teaching methods
Case presentation, Videos. Practical activities will be used, through simulation or in the ward, to consolidate technical and soft knowledge and skills developed during frontal lectures.
Teaching Resources
Adams & Victor's Principles of Neurology, 8th edition, McGraw Hill Education, 2019
Merritt's Neurology, 13th edition, Pedley & Rowland, Wolters Kluwer, 2015
Bradley & Daroff's, Neurology in Clinical Practice, 8th edition, Elsevier, 2021
Merritt's Neurology, 13th edition, Pedley & Rowland, Wolters Kluwer, 2015
Bradley & Daroff's, Neurology in Clinical Practice, 8th edition, Elsevier, 2021
Mental health
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Professors:
Brambilla Paolo, Panariello Adelaide
Shifts:
Group 1
Professor:
Brambilla PaoloGroup 2
Professor:
Panariello Adelaide
Neurology
MED/26 - NEUROLOGY - University credits: 1
Clerkship (professional training): 25 hours
Shifts:
Group 1
Professor:
Martinelli Boneschi FilippoGroup 2
Professor:
Sansone Valeria Ada MariaGroup 3
Professor:
Sessa MariaProfessor(s)
Reception:
based on appointment
Via Della Commenda, 10/12 - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico - Pad. Alfieri, first floor
Reception:
Giovedi 14.00-16.00
Policlinico San Donato