CHILD NEUROPSYCHIATRY
cod. 14358

Academic year 2007/08
5° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Neuropsichiatria infantile (MED/39)
Field
Discipline pediatriche
Type of training activity
Characterising
4 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.5 credits
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course unit
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Integrated course unit module: GENERAL AND SPECIALIST PEDIATRICS (ATT)

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.

Prerequisites

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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.

Full programme

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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

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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