48093 - Neuropsychology and Adults' Functional Recovery

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Elisabetta Ladavas
  • Credits: 12
  • SSD: M-PSI/02
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Elisabetta Ladavas (Modulo 1) Andrea Serino (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Cesena
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Neurosciences and neuro-psychological rehabilitation (cod. 0989)

Learning outcomes

Students should acquire basic knowledge that allows them to project and use methods and theoretic models of neuropsychological rehabilitation. Furthermore, they should acquire fundamental concepts to understand how to use avilable neurorehabilitation techniques and to create new ones.

Course contents

At the end of the course, students should acquire knowledge relative to the following topics: Research methods in neuropsychological rehabilitation; Neuropsychological rehabilitation of perception, attention, movement, language, and memory disorders; neuropsyhological rehabilitation of cognitive deficits following frontal lobe syndrome and dementia.

Readings/Bibliography

A. Mazzucchi.La Riabilitazione Neuropsicologica. Ed. Masson.

Anna Basso. Conoscere e Rieducare l' Afasia. Ed. Il Pensiro Scientifico.

Teaching methods

Frontal lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Power point pesentations. Moreover, articles in english of specifci interest, as well as some of the slides presented during the course, will be made available to students.

Office hours

See the website of Elisabetta Ladavas

See the website of Andrea Serino