- Docente: Costantino Schiavi
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/30
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students should be able to perform an ocular motility examination in patients with cerebral lesions involving supranuclear pathways. Students should be able to recognize the main forms of conjugate gaze palsies, internuclear ophthalmoplegia, saccadic and smooth-pursuit disorders.
Course contents
Physiology and anatomy of supranuclear gaze control systems - Gaze paralisies, internuclear ophthalmoplegia, neurologic nystagmus, vergences' disorders - Ocular motility disorders of cerebellar origin.
The course includes frontal lectures and attendanceto the
Neuro-Ophthalmology Service of the Department of
Ophthalmology.
Frontal lectures of Prof. Schiavi will be held on March 11, 2013,
from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m., in the "Corrado hall", pavilion 1, St.
Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, via P. Palagi, 9, Bologna. Calendar of
attendanceto the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service will be
communicated to each student at the end of the frontal
lectures.
To enrol for the present course, please send an email to: emilio.campos@unibo.it. Deadline for registration: March 1, 2013
Teaching methods
Videoprojection of slides and movies. At the end of the frontal lectures, students will attend the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service of the Department of Ophthalmology.
Assessment methods
Idoneity
Teaching tools
Frontal lectures and illustration of the main diagnostic methods and surgical techniques
Office hours
See the website of Costantino Schiavi