DISTURBI COMPORTAMENTO ALIMENTARE
Module PSICHIATRIA

Academic Year 2024/2025 - Teacher: MARIA SALVINA SIGNORELLI

Expected Learning Outcomes

Students will develop and demonstrate knowledge in the following specific areas:

  1. The major theoretical approaches to understanding the patient-doctor relationship;
  2. The biological, genetic, psychological, sociocultural, economic, ethnic, gender, religious/spiritual, sexual orientation, and family factors that significantly influence physical and psychological development throughout the life cycle;
  3. The fundamental principles of the epidemiology, etiologies, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of all major psychiatric disorders in the current standard diagnostic statistical manual, including the biological, psychological, sociocultural, and iatrogenic factors that affect the prevention, incidence, prevalence and long-term course and treatment of psychiatric disorders and conditions;
  4. The use, reliability, and validity of the generally accepted diagnostic techniques, including physical examination of the patient, laboratory testing, imaging, neurophysiologic and neuropsychological testing, and psychological testing

Course Structure

Frontal teaching lesson

Required Prerequisites

Neuropsychopharmacology and medical comorbidity.

Attendance of Lessons

mandatory

Detailed Course Content

1. Major theoretical approach in Psychiatry

2. PSYCHIATRIC SEMEIOTICS 

Appearance, Motor activity, Mimic, Language, Behavior, Psychiatric history

3. Psychopathology 

Attention, Consciousness, Memory, Perception, Thought, Affectivity, aggressive or violent behavior, Intelligence.

4. CLINIC FEATURES

a) CLASSIFICATION OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS - DSM 5 (A.P.A.); ICD-10 (O.M.S.) 

b) DEMENTIA, DELIRIUM Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy 

c) RELATED SUBSTANCES: ALCOHOL, AMPHETAMIN, CAFFEINE, CANNABIS, COCAINE, HALLUCINOGENES, INHANTS, NICOTINE, OPPIACEI, PHENICLIDINE, SEDATIVES, HYPNOTICS OR ANSIOLITHICS. Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy 

d) SCHIZOPHRENIA Epidemiology, risk factors and etiopathogenetic hypotheses, symptomatology (initial period, state period, course and outcome), clinical forms, prognosis, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, therapy. 

e) OTHER PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS:  Nosography, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures and forms, Diagnosis, Course, Prognosis, Therapy. 

f) MOOD DISORDERS Epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, clinical pictures (depressive episode, manic episode Hypomania, mixed states), diagnosis, differential diagnosis, course (unipolar, dysthymic, Bipolar, Cyclothymic, Rapid Cycles, Seasonal Affective), Prognosis, Therapy. 

g) ANXIETY  DISORDERS: PANIC ATTAC, AGORAPHOBIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SPECIFIC PHOBIA; GENERALIZED ANXIETY; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, ANXIETY DUE TO A GENERAL MEDICAL CONDITION; ANXIETY INDUCED BY SUBSTANCES. Historical and nosographic notes, Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course,

m) EATING DISORDERS: 

ANOREXIA; BULIMIA, BINGE EATING DISORDERS Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, differential, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy. 

n) PERSONALITY DISORDERS: Diagnosis and diagnosis GROUP A (Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypic); B (Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic); GROUP C (Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive) Epidemiology, Etiopathogenesis, Clinical pictures, Course, Diagnosis and differential diagnosis, Comorbidity, Prognosis, Therapy.

5. TREATMENT a) PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY;  b) PSYCHOTHERAPY c) SOMATIC THERAPIES d) Psychiatric and psychosocial rehabilitation 

6. ORGANIZATION OF DEPARTMENT of MENTAL HEALTH; MANDATORY MEDICAL TREATMENT

 

Textbook Information

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Manuale di psichiatria

di Angela FavaroFabio Sambataro

 

  • Editore: Piccin-Nuova Libraria
  • Data di Pubblicazione: novembre 2021
  • EAN: 9788829932085
  • ISBN: 8829932086
  • Pagine: 576
  • Formato: brossura

 


AuthorTitlePublisherYearISBN
Favaro A., Sambataro F.Manuale di PsichiatriaPiccin20218829932086

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1PsychopathologyManuale di Psichiatria
2PsychosisManuale di Psichiatria
3Bipolar disordersManuale di Psichiatria
4Depressive DisordersManuale di Psichiatria
5Suicidal behaviorManuale di Psichiatria
6PTSD and related disordersManuale di Psichiatria
7Anxiety disordersManuale di Psichiatria
8Obsessive and compulsive disordersManuale di Psichiatria
9Eating disordersManuale di Psichiatria
10Drug addictionManuale di Psichiatria
11Personality disordersManuale di Psichiatria
12Delirium, BPSDManuale di Psichiatria
13Pharmacological, psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation treatmentManuale di Psichiatria
14Organization of mental health servicesManuale di Psichiatria

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

ORAL EXAMINATION

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Examples of questions:

- Difference between bipolar disorder I and bipolar disorder II

- What are the main eating disorders?

- How is physiological anxiety different from pathological anxiety?

- Describe post-traumatic stress disorder and neurophysiological related disorders. 

- Differential diagnosis in psychoses.