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Psychiatry
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Psychiatry
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Academic year 2022/2023
- Course ID
- SCB0218
- Teaching staff
- Giuseppe Maina (Coordinator)
Carola Eva (Lecturer)
Gianluca Rosso (Lecturer) - Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- First and Second semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 6 (48 hours of lectures, 24 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- BIO/14 - pharmacology
MED/25 - psychiatry - Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
- To provide students with practically useful advice on epidemiology, specific symptoms, course, clinical complications and treatment of psychiatric disorders.
- To deepen the clinical presentation of mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, personality disorders, neurocognitive disorders and substance-related and addictive disorders;
- To provide knowledge on the general principles of prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and benzodiazepines and to specify their clinical indications;
- To provide knowledge on drugs acting on the central nervous system
- To give an overview of emergency psychiatry and compulsory admission procedures;
- To show the main characteristics of psychotherapeutic techniques and their applications in clinical practice.
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Results of learning outcomes
- Recognizing signs and symptoms of psychiatric disorders;
- Knowledge of the main treatments in psychiatry: medications and psychosocial interventions;
- Knowledge of history, chemical structure, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetic, therapeutic effects and unwanted side effects of drugs used for the treatment of neurological and psychiatric diseases;
- Managing psychiatric disorders and their treatments in a general practice setting.
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Course delivery
The teaching of the module of psychiatry is delivered in attendance through taught and interactive lectures.
The teaching of the module of pharmacology is delivered by frontal lessons
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Learning assessment methods
The psychiatry exam (Module of Psychiatry - see specific section) will be a written test (multiple choice questions) in attendance with an optional oral examination.
The pharmacology exam (Module of Pharmacology - see specific section) will be a written test (8 multiple choice questions and one open question)
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Program
- Mood disorders;
- Schizophrenia and related disorders;
- Anxiety disorders and related disorders;
- Eating disorders;
- Personality disorders;
- Substance-related and addictive disorders;
- Neurocognitive disorders;
- Treatments: Psychopharmacological treatments and psychotherapy;
- Drugs used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, eating disorders, Parkinson disease and epilepsy. Drug abuse;
- Compulsory admission procedures, interface of law and psychiatry, principles of ethics.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Book
- Title:
- The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry
- Year of publication:
- 2019
- Publisher:
- American Psychiatric Publishing
- Author:
- William W. Johnstone
- ISBN
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- Yes
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- Book
- Title:
- Goodman and Gilman's Manual of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2e
- Year of publication:
- 2014
- Publisher:
- McGraw-Hill
- Author:
- Randa Hilal-Dandan, Laurence L. Brunton
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- Yes
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- Slides and lecture notes.
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Moduli didattici
- Psychiatry - Module of Pharmacology (SCB0218A)
- Psychiatry - Module of Psychiatry (SCB0218B)
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