- Docente: Rocco Liguori
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/26
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Techniques in Neurophysiopathology (for certified professional technicians in neurophysiopathology) (cod. 0160)
Learning outcomes
To learn the basic mechanisms underlying the symptoms and signs of dysfunction of the motor, coordination and sensory systems.
Course contents
Basic alterations of the nervous fibre: neuroapraxia, axonotmesis, neurotmesis, axonocachexia. Nervous regeneration and reinnervation. The reflex arc. Nervous reflexes, mono and polysynaptic. Segmental organization of motricity and sensibility. Motor and sensory pathways. Cranial nerves. Diseases of the cranial nerves. Peripheral neuropathies, axonal and demyelinating. Multineuropathies and focal neuropathies. Neuromuscular synapse and diseases of the neuromuscular transmission: myasthenia and myasthenic syndromes. Muscle diseases, inflammatory and degenerative. Myositis. Dystrophic, metabolic and congenital myopathies.
Readings/Bibliography
Pazzaglia P. Clinica Neurologica. Esculapio Editore.
Teaching methods
Lectures.
Assessment methods
Oral examination at the end of the course.
Teaching tools
Slide presentations.
Office hours
See the website of Rocco Liguori