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Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Disciplinary Sector:
Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
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 in the adult.
Extended Syllabus Theoretical and methodological foundations of neuropsychology.
Main neuropsychological disorders and syndromes: disorders of oral language, memory disorders, attentional disorders, visuo-spatial disorders, executive disorders, mild and major neurocognitive disorders (dementia). Emotional disorders following acquired brain injuries.
Consciousness: methodologies of investigation, neural correlates and deficits of consciousness. Principles of social neuroscience.
Recommended Bibliography - Manuale di neuropsicologia. Giuseppe Vallar and Costanza Papagno. Edition: Il Mulino.
- Giulio Tononi & Marcello Massimini (2013). Nulla di più grande. Baldini&Castoldi Editore
- Louis Cozolino (2008). Il cervello sociale. Neuroscienze delle relazioni umane. Cortina Raffaello Editore. Chapters 1,2,3,4.
- Slides of the course.
Optional deeping readings:
- Manuale di neuropsicologia. Normalità e patologia dei processi cognitivi. Franco Denes et al. Ed: Zanichelli. Third edition.
- Neuropsicologia dei lobi frontali. Sindromi disesecutive e disturbi del comportamento. Dario Grossi and Luigi Trojano. Ed: Il Mulino. Second edition.
Teaching Methods The course is made of 42 hours subdivided in lessons of 2 or 3 hours depending on the didactic calendar. The course contents are presented through lessons in lecture hall, taking advantage of power point slides (made available to the students) and of critical vision of explicative clinical cases.
Attendance is optional but strongly recommended.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
Written examination with multiple-choice questions.
Contacts/More Information It is possible to participate to the scientific meetings organised by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.
To receive alerts, the students are required to send an e-mail to the address neuropsicolab@gmail.com , asking for signing up to the newsletter.