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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, students are required a basic knowledge of neurophysiology.
Objectives
Contents The course provides knowledge on the theoretical and methodological bases of neuropsychology, showing the clinical symptoms, the theoretical interpretations and the neural bases of the main disorders following acquired brain injuries, with particular reference to spoken language disorders.
Extended Syllabus Theoretical and methodological foundations of neuropsychology.
Main neuropsychological disorders and syndromes: disorders of spoken and written language (aphasia, dyslexia and dysgraphia), disorders of voluntary movement (apraxia), attentional and visuo-spatial disorders (neglect), memory and executive disorders, cognitive degeneration (MCI and dementia).
Recommended Bibliography Manuale di neuropsicologia. Giuseppe Vallar and Costanza Papagno. Edition: Il Mulino. Chapters related to
course programme.
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) and of critical vision of explicative clinical cases.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The examination is written and made up of 30 multiple-choice questions.
Contacts/More Information The professor is available for meeting students every wednesday from 10 to 11 at her study (block A - Psychology). It is possible to participate to the scientific meetings organized 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.