Neurology

The teaching aims of this module are to provide the students with some fundamentals about neurological semiotics through the revision of the main elements of neurophysiology and of the principals of the anatomic-functional correlation at the peripheral and central nervous systems levels. In particular, the frontal teaching course will focus, after a general revision of the neurological examination, on the following topics: 1) Motor systems; 2) Cerebellum; 3) Language and cortical functions; 4) Consciousness and e coma; 5) Semiotics of the peripheral nervous system; 6) Brainstem and cranial nerve; 7) Spinal cord; 8) Semiotics of the autonomous nervous system; 9) Pain in neurology.

At the end of this module of the teaching course, the student will be able to utilize the notions received concerning the neurological semiotics in order to:
- Be able to localize sign or symptoms in the nervous system (central or peripheral, level of lesion) and to know the anatomo-functional principals of the various neurological functional systems
- Be prepared from the semiologic point of view to the Nervous System Diseases teaching course