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Psychiatry - Module of Pharmacology
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Psychiatry - Module of Pharmacology
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Academic year 2022/2023
- Course ID
- SCB0218A
- Teacher
- Carola Eva (Lecturer)
- Modular course
- Psychiatry (SCB0218)
- Year
- 4th year
- Teaching period
- Second semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 2 (16 hours of lectures, 8 hours of exercises)
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- BIO/14 - pharmacology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The aim of the Course is to provide knowledge of the rational bases of neuropsychopharmacological therapy and the clinical applications of drugs acting on the central nervous system. At the end of the Course, the Student will be able to evaluate and describe the general properties of drgs acting on the central nervous system, providing their possible clinical applications, taking into consideration chemical structure, mechanism of action, pharmacokinetics and connections between pharmacological effects and adverse drug reactions.
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Results of learning outcomes
Knowledge of the principal mechanisms regulating pharmacokinetic and cellular neuropsychopharmacology; main determinants of variability in drug responses. Mechanisms of action, side effects, pharmacological interactions, pharmacokinetics and clinical use drugs acting on the central nervous system. Applying the knowledge and understanding acquired with the lectures and integrating them with those derived by other biomedical and clinical courses, the Student should be able to understand the rational bases for the clinical use of drugs, predicting the pharmacological effects both from diagnostic/therapeutic and toxicological point of view.
In particular, the learning outcomes will be:
- Knowledge and understanding ability
the Student will be able to learn and understand the topics of the Neuropsychopharmacology program
- Applying knowledge and understanding
the Student will be able to apply the knowledge and to understand neuropsychopharmacology with diagnostic, preventive and curative purposes
- Independent Judgement
the Student will be able to develop a good judgment and analysis autonomy on pharmacological problems
- Communication skills
the Student will be able to develop good communication skills and suitable language properties in the didactic field
- Learning skills
the Student will be able to develop functional organizational and learning skills in future institutional settings.
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Course delivery
The course delivery will be given by frontal lessons.
Pdf material will be sent to the students.
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Learning assessment methods
The exam includes a written test on the moodle platform consisting of 8 multiple choice questions (one correct answer) and one open question relating to the program.
For each correct answer a point will be assigned and a maximum of 4 for the open question. The total of points for each module is 12. Wrong answers will not lead to negative evaluations in the overall score.
The time available for the test is 24 minutes.
The student will have have to pass the pharmacology exam (minimum score of 7 points out of 12) to take the psychiatry module
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Program
Drugs used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia and related disorders, eating disorders, Parkinson disease and epilepsy. Drug abuse.
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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- No
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- Slides and lecture notes.
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