Learning objectives
<br />The student must acquire information necessary to:<br /> <br />evaluate the normal phases of physical, cognitive, and psycho-relational growth in healthy children and adolescents ; recognize the general needs of treatment in a sick child with neuropsychiatric diseases.
Course unit content
<br />Neuropsychiatry (SSD Med/39, CFU 0,5). Neurological examination of the newborn. Convulsions in the child. Cerebral palsy. Epilepsy. Language, behaviour, and development disorders in children.
Bibliography
<br />-¿Nelson TEXTBOOK of PEDIATRICS¿ R.E. Berhrman, R.M. Kliegman, H.B. Jensen,16th edition, WB Saunders Company, <br /> <br />Philadelphia, USA<br /> <br />-¿Pediatria Generale e Specialistica¿ Careddu, Castello, Giuffrè et al., Casa Editrice Ambrosiana. Ed. 2002<br /> <br />-¿Manuale di Pediatria¿ A.M. Rudolph, R.K. Kamei, K.J. Overby, 3rd Ed., McGraw Hill Companies, New York, USA
Teaching methods
<br />Frontal and interactive lessons.<br /> <br />Professors:<br /> <br />Prof.Giuseppe Cossu. Prof.Francesco Pisani