-- Understanding the functional organization of the Central Nervous system
-- Understanding how the molecular and cellular processes in neurons and glia and the organization of neural circuits give rise to sensory information processing, motor control, sleep, memory, learning, emotions, language, thought and motivated behaviour
-- Understanding how genetic, environmental factors and psychological experience may interact in generating neurological and psychic disturbances
-- Knowing the main features of the most important CNS pathologies (Parkinson's, Huntington's, Alzheimer's diseases, epilepsy and migraine, ALS, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Spectrum Disorders, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, ADHD)
-- Identify the main paths and approaches for research in Neuroscience and understand the specificities of diagnostic, monitoring, symptomatic and disease-modifying strategies and approaches
-- Capacity to identify how a genetic alteration, an environmental factor or the impairment of a cellular function may interfere with the normal functioning of cerebral circuits and give rise to neurological or psychic derangement
-- Capacity to illustrate the specific features of Central Nervous System pathophysiology, of the neuron-glia interaction, of the processes of neurodegeneration and of possible strategies of neuroprotection
-- Capacity to describe and explain the modalities of onset of a neuropathological picture