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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
The exam can be taken only after having passed and recorded Psychobiology I.
Objectives Contents Advanced Psychobiology.The course provides a deepening of some psychobiological topics, with particular attention to higher cognitive functions and the neurobiological substrate of the main mental diseases.
Extended Syllabus Elements of cerebral macroanatomy: cerebral lobes, principal gyri and sulci.
Movement: The Organization and Planning of Movement - The Motor Unit and Muscle Action - Spinal Reflexes – Locomotion - Voluntary Movement: The Primary Motor Cortex - Voluntary Movement: The Parietal and Premotor Cortex - The Control of Gaze - The Vestibular System - Posture. -The Cerebellum - The Basal Ganglia.
The Unconscious and Conscious Processing of Neural Information: The Sensory, Motor, and Reflex Functions of the Brain Stem - The Modulatory Functions of the Brain Stem - The Autonomic Motor System and the Hypothalamus - Emotions and Feelings - Homeostasis, Motivation, and Addictive States - Seizures and Epilepsy - Sleep and Dreaming.
Language, Thought, Affect, and Learning: Language - Disorders of Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes - Disorders of Thought and Volition: Schizophrenia - Disorders of Mood and Anxiety – Autism Learning and Memory - Cellular Mechanisms of Implicit Memory Storage and the Biological Basis of Individuality -Prefrontal Cortex, Hippocampus, and the Biology of Explicit Memory Storage.
Recommended Bibliography ER Kandel, JH Schwartz, TM Jessell "Principi di neuroscienze"; Fourth italian edition; Ed: Ambrosiana, Milan (€161,50).
Teaching Methods The course contents are presented through lessons in lecture hall, taking advantage of power point slides (made available to the students) and explicative videos.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The examination is written and oral. Written exam is made up of 30 multiple-choice questions. Who passes the written exam will have to make the oral one mandatory or optionally depending on the obtained results.
Contacts/More Information It is possible to participate to the scientific meetings organised by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.neuropsicolab@gmail.com , asking for signing up to the newsletter.
