ITA | ENG
B020883 - ELEMENTS OF NEUROLOGY AND COGNITIVE REHABILITATION
Main information
Teaching Language
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Teaching Methods
Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2016-17
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Health Sciences (DSS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
MED/26 - NEUROLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
42
Teaching Term
01/03/2017 ⇒ 26/05/2017
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
Course program
show
Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Woods B, Aguirre E, Spector AE, Orrell M. Cognitive stimulation to improve cognitive functioning in people with dementia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Feb 15;2:CD005562. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD005562.pub2. Review.
Bahar-Fuchs A, Clare L, Woods B. Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Jun 5;6:CD003260. doi:
10.1002/14651858.CD003260.pub2. Review.
Gillespie DC, Bowen A, Chung CS, Cockburn J, Knapp P, Pollock A. Rehabilitation for post-stroke cognitive impairment: an overview of recommendations arising from systematic reviews of current evidence. Clin Rehabil. 2015 Feb;29(2):120-8. doi: 10.1177/0269215514538982.
Robertson IH, Murre JM. Rehabilitation of brain damage: brain plasticity and principles of guided recovery. Psychol Bull. 1999 Sep;125(5):544-75. Review.
O'Brien JT, Erkinjuntti T, Reisberg B, Roman G, Sawada T, Pantoni L, Bowler JV, Ballard C, DeCarli C, Gorelick PB, Rockwood K, Burns A, Gauthier S, DeKosky ST. Vascular cognitive impairment. Lancet Neurol. 2003 Feb;2(2):89-98. Review.
Bahar-Fuchs A, Clare L, Woods B. Cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation for mild to moderate Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Jun 5;6:CD003260. doi:
10.1002/14651858.CD003260.pub2. Review.
Gillespie DC, Bowen A, Chung CS, Cockburn J, Knapp P, Pollock A. Rehabilitation for post-stroke cognitive impairment: an overview of recommendations arising from systematic reviews of current evidence. Clin Rehabil. 2015 Feb;29(2):120-8. doi: 10.1177/0269215514538982.
Robertson IH, Murre JM. Rehabilitation of brain damage: brain plasticity and principles of guided recovery. Psychol Bull. 1999 Sep;125(5):544-75. Review.
O'Brien JT, Erkinjuntti T, Reisberg B, Roman G, Sawada T, Pantoni L, Bowler JV, Ballard C, DeCarli C, Gorelick PB, Rockwood K, Burns A, Gauthier S, DeKosky ST. Vascular cognitive impairment. Lancet Neurol. 2003 Feb;2(2):89-98. Review.
Learning Objectives
Provide general knowledge about clinical neurology, more specifically: principal neurological syndromes, diagnostic algorithms and rationale of therapeutic interventions in the nervous system diseases, with particular attention to neurocognitive rehabilitation.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons
Type of Assessment
Oral exam
Course program
Elements of functional neuroanatomy. Assessment of the neurological patient e principles of neurological semiology (symptomatology, functional, motor, cognitive and psychiatric disturbances). Instrumental and laboratory exams, and differential diagnosis. Impairment of cognitive functions (elements of neuropsychology, dementia diagnostic criteria and principals clinical presentations). Definition of the principal types of cognitive decline and dementia: neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular syndromes. Cognitive rehabilitation: definition, principles and rationale of rehabilitative approaches for cognitive impairment. Neuroscientific bases of cognitive rehabilitation: neuronal plasticity. Cognitive rehabilitation for dementias. Tools for the evaluation of the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation.