NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO RESPIRATORIO ENDOCRINOLOGIA CHIRURGIA GENERALE NEUROCHIRURGIA E MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE

Learning Objectives

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry

  Knowing the basics of mental illness with early onset in childhood and adolescence and their course in adulthood.

• RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

  The course aims to promote the understanding of the main mechanisms that characterize the body's pulmonary regulation. In addition to the general aspects of lung function, the main etiopathogenetic, pathophysiological and clinical characteristics of the most common respiratory diseases will be treated, making prevalent reference to those relevant to the Degree Course

• Endocrinology

  To provide essential knowledge on the physiopathology of endocrine diseases and to identify their relationship with the job of technician of psychiatric rehabilitation

• CHIRURGIA GENERALE

  Course aimed at learning the surgical pathologies most commonly found in psychiatric patients

• Neurosurgery

  To understand epidemiology, classification, clinical features and diagnostic approaches to the most common neurosurgical diseases. To gain experience about clinical correlation between neurosurgical diseases and neuropsichiatric disorders.

Course Structure

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry

  lessons ad internship

• Endocrinology

  slides commented

• Neurosurgery

  Frontal teaching; practical training and seminars to be held in the Neurosurgical Unit, Policlinico "G. Rodolico" University Hospital, Via S. Sofia 78, Catania

Detailed Course Content

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry

  Psychomotor development • Mental delay • Learning Disorders: dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, learning disorder not otherwise specified • Communication disorders: Disorder of speech, expression and disorder mixed receptive language, speech disorder, stuttering, communication disorder not otherwise specified •Autism spetrum disorder,, Rett syndrome,• Attention Deficit Disorder / Hyperactivity • Tic Disorders: Tourette syndrome, transient tic disorder, chronic motor tics or vocal • Obsessive compulsive disorder • Anxiety disorders • Mood Disorders • Eating disorders: Anorexia, Bulimia • Enuresis • epilepsies • cerebral palsy microcephaly

• RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

  
  Pathophysiology and lung defense mechanisms
  - Respiratory function tests
  - Asthma
  - COPD
  - Pneumonia
  - Pleural effusions
  - Interstitial lung diseases
  - Acute and chronic respiratory failure
  - bronchiectasis
  - TB

• Endocrinology

  Basic Endocrinology, diseases of thyroid, adrenal cortex, adrenal medulla, neuroendocrinology, diabetes mellitus, obesity, bulimia, anorexia

• CHIRURGIA GENERALE

  Gastro-esophageal joint disorders
  Changes in gastric secretion and its repercussions

  Functional pathology of the rectum and anus

  Abdominal and diaphragmatic wall disorders

  Endocrine disorders: thyridism, hypo and hypercalcemias

  Hydro-electrolytic alterations

  Functional pathology of the colon

• Neurosurgery
  • Intracranial hypertension

  • Cerebro-spinal Fluid circulation diseases: diagnosis and treatment

  • Cranio-cerebral hemorrhages

  • Traumatic brain injuries

  • Brain tumors: diagnosis and multimodal treatment

  • Degenerative spine disease potentially causing neuropsichiatric disorders

  • Traumatic spine injuries

  • Cervical spondylotic myelopathy and cervical disc herniation

  • Lumbar and thoracic spine disc herniation and spondylosis

Textbook Information

• Child and Adolescent Neurology and Psichiatry

  R. Militerni “Neuropsichiatria Infantile” Eds Idelson Gnocchi
  DSM-V “Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali” APA

• RESPIRATORY MEDICINE

  Harrison’s Principi di Medicina Interna – McGraw-Hill 18° ed

• Endocrinology

  Greenspam, Endocrinology

• CHIRURGIA GENERALE

  Schwartz. Manuale di chirurgia

• Neurosurgery

  Neurochirurgia in 10 lezioni

  Editore: Minerva Medica

  Data di Pubblicazione: 2019