School of dental medicine | University of Parma

Professor: Paola TORELLI
Academic discipline: Neurologia (MED/26)
Field: Discipline mediche di rilevanza odontoiatrica
Type of training activity: Characterising

20 hours
of face-to-face activities

2 credits

hub: -

course unit
in ITALIAN

lectures timetable

exam calls

Integrated course unit module: MEDICAL SCIENCES

Learning objectives

For the dentist professional the knowledge of neurological diseases becomes a topical part of the educational process. Epilepsies and stroke are basic pathologies as well as all the painful syndromes linked to the cranial nerves.

Prerequisites

Solid bases of anatomy and physiology of the nervous system are required to approach neurologic disorders.

Course unit content

Classification and analysis of the major neurologic diseases, with basic notions on epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations and principles of therapy.
Fundamental anatomical and functional bases of the major neurological diseases with special attention focused on the student's dentist skills and perspectives.

Full programme

Cerebro-vascular diseases, meningitis and encephalitis, dementia, epilepsy, primary and secondary headache, multiple sclerosis, miastenia gravis, Parkinson's disease, motoneuron disease, Guillain-Barrè syndrome

Bibliography

The educational material shared during the lessons represent the core reference for the final examinatiion. The suggested textbooks are:
1) Neurologia per le lauree triennali, P Bertora, Piccin, 2015
2) Neurologia e assistenza Infermieristica-Manuale per le professioni sanitarie-Federico, Angelini, Franza Eds EdiSES.
3 Neurologia (Manuale), Iain Wilkinson e Graham Iennox, Minerva Medica
4 Mario Manfredi, Anna Teresa Giallonardo, Carlo Di Bonaventura. Neurologia. Piccin-Nuova Libraria 2023.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons with clinical examples and continuous references to real life situations.

Assessment methods and criteria

Written exam: multiple choise questions. The knowledge and understanding of the subjects included in the program, reasoning capacity on the problems of neurological patients, the acquisition of a correct terminology.

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