MEDICINA MATERNO-INFANTILE

Learning Objectives

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE

  Knowing the basics of mental and psychiatric illness with early in childhood and adolescence.

Detailed Course Content

• MEDICINA INTERNA

  Principles of evaluation and management
  Cardiovascular risk factors and clinical manifestations of atherosclerosis lesions.
  Clinical aspects, diagnostic instruments’ becks and therapy of major metabolic disorders, with particular references to obesity and diabetes mellitus.
  Clinical aspects, diagnostic instruments’ becks and therapy of major cardiovascular diseases, with special references to arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease, heart failure and atrial fibrillation.
  Clinical signs , diagnostic instruments’ becks and therapy of endocrine diseases with special reference to thyroid disease. Basic elements of anatomy and physiology of the kidney: urinary tract infections and acute and chronic renal failure.
  Basic elements of anatomy and physiology of the lung and of the main respiratory diseases, bronchial asthma, Copd, respiratory failure.
  Clinical aspects, diagnostic instruments’ becks and therapy of Gastrointestinal apparatus diseases: Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease, Peptic disease: Helicobacter pylori role, celiac disease; cholelithiasis; hepatic cirrhosis.
  Hematopoietic system diseases: classification of anemia.
  Autoimmune diseases : pathophysiology.
  Fever: pathophysiology.

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE

  Psychomotor development • Mental delay • Learning Disorders: dysgraphia, dyslexia, dyscalculia, learning disorder not otherwise specified • Communication disorders: Disorder of speech, expression and disorder mixed receptive language, speech disorder, stuttering, communication disorder not otherwise specified •Autism spetrum disorder,, Rett syndrome,• Attention Deficit Disorder / Hyperactivity • Tic Disorders: Tourette syndrome, transient tic disorder, chronic motor tics or vocal • Obsessive compulsive disorder • Anxiety disorders • Mood Disorders • Enuresis • febril seizures • cerebral palsy microcephaly

Textbook Information

• NEUROPSICHIATRIA INFANTILE

  R. Militerni “Neuropsichiatria Infantile” Eds Idelson Gnocchi
  DSM-V “Manuale Diagnostico e Statistico dei Disturbi Mentali” APA