Psychiatry and Child Neuropsychiatry

A.Y. 2019/2020
7
Max ECTS
70
Overall hours
SSD
MED/25 MED/39
Language
Italian
Learning objectives
The aim of this course is acquired the prevalent psychic functions and psychopathology related during the lifespan from childhood to adulthood will need to be learned, knowing the general guidelines of the prevalent psychotherapies.
Expected learning outcomes
At the end of this course the student must:
· Main psychic functions and psychopathology related will need to be learned and well defined
· Know the main categories of psychiatric nosography by defining the most frequent syndromes
· Distinguish the psychic disorder due to the organic diseases from actual and proper psychiatric disorders
· Ability to draw from the medical records the main information relating to the psychiatric clinical conditions
· identifying physiological and pathological forms typical of early evolutionary phases, highlighting differences and similarities with the disorders of adulthood
· Know the clinical pictures of the most common forms of psychiatric disorders: psychological functions and their psychopathological alterations; main categories of psychiatric pathology; psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety; hints about somatoform disorders and dissociative disorders; eating disorders; personality disorders; syndromes and organic mental disorders which may occur from childhood to adulthood
· Know the major guidelines of different psychotherapies
· Know the general guidelines of psychiatric and TSO legislation
· Know the main psychiatric drugs guidelines
Single course

This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.

Course syllabus and organization

Sezione: Bosisio Parini

Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
There are no prerequisites.
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam
Psichiatria
Course syllabus
The prevalent psychopatological dimensions and major and minor psychiatric disorder will be described:
Psychopathology: perception, thinking, consciousness, memory, will, attention, affectivity, reality test and criticism.
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders;
Bipolar and related disorders;
Depressive disorders and suicide;
Anxiety Disorders; Obsessive -compulsive and related disorders;
Somatic symptom and related disorder;
Dissociation disorder;
Trauma and stressor-related Disorders;
Eating disorders;
Substance -related and addiction disorders;
Personality disorders;
Sleep disorders.
Teaching methods
Lectures, role playing and clinical case discussion .
Teaching Resources
Psichiatria:
G. Invernizzi, C. Bressi (2017): Psichiatria e psicologia clinica. McGraw-Hill, Milano, Quinta edizione.
P. Brambilla (2019): Manuale di psichiatria clinica. Minerva Medica, Milano.
Neuropsichiatria infantile
Course syllabus
NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
1. The approach to the childhood neuropsychiatry
2. Neuromotor development and evaluation of the newborn and the child
4. Cerebral palsy
5. Epilepsy
6. Pathologies of the extra pyramidal system
7. Neuromuscular diseases
8. Notes on metabolic, hereditary and degenerative diseases
9. Infectious, parainfectious and inflammatory diseases of immunological origin
10. Tumours of the central nervous system
11. About cerebrovascular diseases
12. Malformations of the central nervous system
14. Neurocutaneous diseases
15. Hydrocephalus and non-traumatic brain collections
16. Isolated paintings: enuresis, encopresis, stuttering, tic.
17. Headaches
Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, Communication Disorders, Learning Disability, Attention and Hyperactivity Disorders
Teaching methods
Taught classes
Teaching Resources
NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE
- J. Aicardi. Diseases of the Nervous System in childhood. 3nd edition, 2009, Mac Keith Press.
- G. Lanzi, U. Balottin. Argomenti di neuropsichiatria infantile. 1996, Ed. La Goliardica Pavese.
- F. Fabbro Manuale di Neuropsichiatria Infantile Carocci Ed.
- DSM 5 Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali Raffaello Cortina Editore
Neuropsichiatria infantile
MED/39 - CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 30 hours
Professors: Avantaggiato Paolo, Mani Elisa
Shifts:
-
Professors: Avantaggiato Paolo, Mani Elisa
Psichiatria
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 4
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor: Bressi Cinzia
Shifts:
-
Professor: Bressi Cinzia

Sezione: Don Gnocchi

Responsible
Prerequisites for admission
There are no prerequisites
Assessment methods and Criteria
Written exam.
Psichiatria
Course syllabus
The prevalent psychopatological dimensions and major and minor psychiatric disorder will be described:
Psychopathology: perception, thinking, consciousness, memory, will, attention, affectivity, reality test and criticism.
Schizophrenia and schizophrenia spectrum disorders and other psychotic disorders;
Bipolar and related disorders;
Depressive disorders and suicide;
Anxiety Disorders; Obsessive -compulsive and related disorders;
Somatic symptom and related disorder;
Dissociation disorder;
Trauma and stressor-related Disorders;
Eating disorders;
Substance -related and addiction disorders;
Personality disorders;
Sleep disorders.
Teaching methods
Lectures, role playing and clinical case discussion
Teaching Resources
Psichiatria:
G. Invernizzi, C. Bressi (2017): Psichiatria e psicologia clinica. McGraw-Hill, Milano, Quinta edizione.
P. Brambilla (2019): Manuale di psichiatria clinica. Minerva Medica, Milano.
Neuropsichiatria infantile
Course syllabus
Childhood and Adolescence Epilepsy: clinical features, diagnostic approach, principles of therapy, and acute management of seizures.
Non epileptic paroxysmal events
Intellectual disability and some clinical phenotypes
Depressive and bipolar disorders (including Self Injurious Behavior)
Cerebral Palsy
Autism Spectrum Disorders
Eating Disorders
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Teaching methods
Lectures, role playing and clinical case discussion .
Teaching Resources
F. Fabbro (2019): Manuale di Neuropsichiatria: una prospettiva psicoeducativa. Carocci, Milano.
Neuropsichiatria infantile
MED/39 - CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 30 hours
Psichiatria
MED/25 - PSYCHIATRY - University credits: 4
Lessons: 40 hours
Professor: Bressi Cinzia
Shifts:
-
Professor: Bressi Cinzia
Professor(s)
Reception:
Monday 1 - 2 pm (e-mail )
San Paolo Hospital, Via A di Rudinì 8, 20142 - Milano