00736 - Child Neuropsychiatry

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Docente: Anna Fetta
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/39
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5709)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student has general knowledge related to the main pathologies in developmental age that characterize the discipline in both the neurological and psychiatric fields. Specifically, the student with regard to the pathologies covered, has competencies covering epidemiology, syndromic classification, symptomatology, clinical and instrumental diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and type of treatment whether medical or rehabilitative

Course contents

Psychomotor development
Cerebral palsy
Neuromuscular disorders
Epilepsy
Headache
Autism spectrum disorders - Intellectual disability
Feeding and Eating Disorders  

Readings/Bibliography

Lecture notes. Material presented in class will be available in PDF on the Virtual platform.

Texts: Antonia Parmeggiani, Pediatria Generale e Specialistica. 2: Neuropsichiatria Infantile (Bologna, Clueb) 2013.

Teaching methods

The module consists of 8 hours of frontal lectures, with the possibility of student intervention.

Assessment methods

The course includes an oral final examination on the given program.

Office hours

See the website of Anna Fetta

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.