NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROLINGUISTIC

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Physiotherapy
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2017/2018
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2019/2020
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
1
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
12
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (12 hours)
Requirements: 

There are no prerequisites to pass the Neuropsychology and Neurolinguistics exam but it will be completed and evaluated as complementary to the course of Clinical Psychology.
From a technical point of view, it is required the knowledge of a technical language that demonstrates the knowledge of some basic terms of acts to demonstrate their adherence to the course.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The course of NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND NEUROLINGUISTICS is an integrated course on Psychology, Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Methodology of the Degree in Physiotherapy. It fits with the neuropsychological and neurolinguistic Rehabilitation course of the third year in the first semester. The course is divided into an introductory part on Neuropsychology and the theories behind it, a part dedicated to the concept of verbal and non-verbal communication and a part dedicated to the anatomical sites of language and their functioning, finally a presentation of some acquired pathologies of the adult as aphasia neglect apraxia, agnosia.

Definition of neuropsychology with historical references of the main neuropsychological theories.
Brain damage and neuroplasticity.
Communication and language and related diseases: dysarthria and aphasia
Localization and body awareness disorders: eminattention and hemisomatoagnosia
The prassies

Texts
G.Denes and L.Pizzamiglio, Manual of neuropsychology .Zanichelli
E. R. Kandel et al., Fundamentals of neuroscience and behavior. Home ed. Ambrosiana
Mazzucchi, Neuropsychological rehabilitation .Masson
S.Della Sala, N.Beschin.The brain wounded.Giunti
P.Castrogiovanni, The cerebellum.See-Florence

The slides of the lessons will be available in two parts in the middle and at the end of the course
Searchable magazines:
Aphasiology, Brain, Neurology, The american journal of occupational therapy

Professors

GRANDE ANNA MARIA