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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology
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Prerequisites:
As a prerequisite, the students are required an advanced psychobiological knowledge.
Objectives Contents The course deals with the theoretical and methodological foundations of neuropsychology, presenting the clinical symptoms, theoretical interpretations and neural bases of the main disorders following acquired cerebral injuries, with particular reference to related evaluation and rehabilitation procedures.
Extended Syllabus Theoretical and methodological foundations of neuropsychology. The neuropsychological evaluation and instrumental exams in clinical neuropsychology. Main neuropsychological disorders and syndromes, with related evaluation procedures (aphasia, dyslexia and dysgraphia, apraxia, amnesia, attentional and visuo-spatial disorders, disorders of executive functions, mild and major neurocognitive disorders), body representation and illness awareness disorders, emotional and psychiatric disorders following acquired brain injuries.General principles of neuropsychological rehabilitation. The rehabilitation of language, memory and attention disorders; treatment of mild and major neurocognitive disorders.
Recommended Bibliography Manuale di neuropsicologia. Giuseppe Vallar and Costanza Papagno. Edition: Il Mulino. Slides of the course.
Teaching Methods The course contents are presented through lessons in lecture hall, taking advantage of power point slides (made available to the students), of the vision of explicative clinical cases and direct experience of some evaluation and rehabilitation procedures.
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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.
