MedInTO Medicine and Surgery

ADE - ALCOHOLISM AND PSYCHIATRY

ADE - ALCOHOLISM AND PSYCHIATRY

Academic year 2020/2021

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• Course objectives
• Results of learning outcomes
• Course delivery
• Learning assessment methods
• Program
• Suggested textbooks and readings
• Notes
• Teaching tools

Course objectives

To understand the biunivocal relationship between alcoholism (i.e., alcohol use disorders) and psychiatry (i.e., psychiatric symptoms and disorders).

Results of learning outcomes

To recognize alcohol use disorders, alcohol addiction and alcohol coping in patients with any psychiatric disorder;
To increase sensitivity to psychiatric symptoms in patients with alcohol use disorder.

Course delivery

Lecture (replaced by webex video conferencing during COVID emergency)
Homework/research in groups on specific topics
Final presentation of each workgroup

Learning assessment methods

Based on final presentation

Program

Definition of addiction
The addiction cycle
Three stages of addiction
Pharmachodynamic of alcohol
Epidemiology of co-occurant (comorbidity) alcohol use and psychiatric disorders
Primary vs. secondary alcohol use disorder
Psychiatric symptoms and disorders due to alcohol use
Alcohol withdrawal symptoms and delirium tremens
Self-medication and alcohol use in psychiatric disorders

Koob GF. Theoretical frameworks and mechanistic aspects of alcohol addiction: alcohol addiction as a reward deficit disorder. Curr Top Behav Neurosci. 2013;13:3-30. doi: 10.1007/7854_2011_129. PMID: 21744309; PMCID: PMC3448980

Note

Maximum number of students: 100

• Teaching materials
• Exams and finals
• Go to Moodle
• Visit the forums