ORTHOPEDICAL SCIENCES AND NEUROLOGY
Module NEUROLOGY

Academic Year 2022/2023 - Teacher: ANTONINA LUCA

Expected Learning Outcomes

Aim of the course will be the acquisition of basic knowledge on the most common acute, sub-acute and chronic neurological disorders. Special attention will be given to movement disorders

Course Structure

Online lessons

Required Prerequisites

According to study plan: anatomy and physiology of the CNS and PNS

Attendance of Lessons

According to didactic regulation

Detailed Course Content

1. Neurological Semeiology, neurophysiological exams and neuroimaging: electromyography, evoked potentials, MRI, CT

2.Semeiology and physiology of movement 

3. Semeiology and physiology of sensibility

4. Neuropsychology and neuropsychological disorders

5. Cranial Nerve disorders

6. Syncope

7. Coma, disorders of consciousness, sleep disorders

8. Seizures

9. Headache

10. Brain and spinal trauma

11. Spinal cord disorders

12. Infections in the CNS 

13. Multiple sclerosis and demyelinating disorders

14. Stroke and cerebrovascular diseases

15. Brain tumor

16. Dementia

17. Movement disorders

18. Motoneuron disorders

19. Cerebellar Ataxia

20. Peripheral nervous system disorders

21. Miopathies

22. Myasthenia

Textbook Information

Slides kit

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Slides kit 

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Multiple choise written tet

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Not applicable
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