NEUROLOGY
cod. 03668

Academic year 2008/09
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Neurologia (MED/26)
Field
Biomedico
Type of training activity
Characterising
25 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

<br />To acquire the basic principles of the neurophysiological investigations of the central and peripheral nervous system.<br />To get some knowledge of the effects of physical activity upon nervous structures and muscles

Prerequisites

<br />all the examinations of the previous year must be passed

Course unit content

<br />-         Concussion and sport<br /> <br />-         Transitory loss of consciousness, (syncope and epilepsy); effects of physical activity<br />-          <br />-         Lesions of the perpheral nervous system as a consequence of sport and physical activity<br /> <br /> <br />-         Basic principles of EMG and evoked potentials<br /> <br /> <br />-         Muscle fatigue <br /> <br />-         Muscle pain and cramps<br /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />Neurologia. Principi di diagnostica e terapia<br />P. Pinelli; M. Poloni<br />Casa Editrice Ambrosiana

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