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Neuropsychology

Milano

Academic Year
2024/2025
Language
Italiano
Thematic Area
Psicologica

Educational program/study plan

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STUDY PLAN - A.Y. 2022/23

The thematic cores for the first year of the programme are as follows:

  • Anatomical and functional organization of the CNS; Neuroplasticity
  • Principles of Human Genetics
  • Relationship between the mind and brain and recent theories of cognition
  • Psychometric theories, neuropsychological tests
  • Basic principles of physiological psychology; psychophysiology of learning and memory; Development and organization of communication (language and pragmatics of communication)
  • Clinical evaluation in neurology; focal brain lesions (cerebrovascular diseases); Trauma; epilepsy; Diagnostic Tools
  • General and descriptive psychopathology; introduction to the diagnostic assessment and the conduct of the clinical interview; diagnostic framework and psychotherapeutic approach to anxiety and mood disorders;
  • The neuropsychological interview. Clinical (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis) and cognitive (modelling) framework of memory and language disorders including reading and writing disorders; computational disorders (amnesia, aphasia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, acalculia); Planning of rehabilitation intervention
  • Psychiatric classification: classification of mood disorders; behavioral manifestations in brain damage; differential diagnosis between "primary" and "secondary" forms of organic brain pathology; Post-stroke depression
  • Data Collection and Organization for Clinical Research
  • Introduction to the Philosophy of Language

Breakdown of the courses of the first year according to the groupings:

ECTS

Basic training activities

6

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

Common trunk

13,5

Activities specific to the type of school

6

Professional Neuropsychology

16

Professional Psychotherapy

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

4

Other activities

0

Thesis

0

Total

60,5

Basic training activities

ECTS

6

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

ECTS

Common trunk

ECTS

13,5

Activities specific to the type of school

ECTS

6

Professional Neuropsychology

ECTS

16

Professional Psychotherapy

ECTS

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

ECTS

4

Other activities

ECTS

0

Thesis

ECTS

0

Total

ECTS

60,5

Articulation of the courses of the first year according to the scientific-disciplinary sectors:

SSD Name of the course Total ECTS DF Hours*

BIO/16

Anatomy of the CNS

3

24

BIO/09

CNS physiology; Neuroplasticity

2

16

BIO/18

Genetics

1

8

M-PSI/01

General Psychology

3

8

M-PSI/03

Psychometrics

3

8

M-PSI/02

Psychophysiology 1

7,5

4

MED/26

Neurology and neuropathophysiology

4

8

M-PSI/08

Clinical Psychology: Psychotherapy

18

24

M-PSI/02

The neuropsychological interview. Memory and language disorders, reading, writing and arithmetic; Planning of rehabilitation intervention

11

8

MED/25

Psychiatry

4

8

SECS-S/01

Statistics

3

8

M-FIL/05

Philosophy and Theory of Languages

1

8

SSD

BIO/16

Name of the course

Anatomy of the CNS

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

24

SSD

BIO/09

Name of the course

CNS physiology; Neuroplasticity

Total ECTS

2

DF Hours*

16

SSD

BIO/18

Name of the course

Genetics

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/01

Name of the course

General Psychology

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/03

Name of the course

Psychometrics

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

Psychophysiology 1

Total ECTS

7,5

DF Hours*

4

SSD

MED/26

Name of the course

Neurology and neuropathophysiology

Total ECTS

4

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/08

Name of the course

Clinical Psychology: Psychotherapy

Total ECTS

18

DF Hours*

24

SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

The neuropsychological interview. Memory and language disorders, reading, writing and arithmetic; Planning of rehabilitation intervention

Total ECTS

11

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/25

Name of the course

Psychiatry

Total ECTS

4

DF Hours*

8

SSD

SECS-S/01

Name of the course

Statistics

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-FIL/05

Name of the course

Philosophy and Theory of Languages

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

*DF: frontal teaching

Distribution of hours in the different teaching modalities for the first year

Teaching/training activities Annual hours

Lectures

132

Professional activity

1100

Personal study

280,5

Final thesis

0

Total

1512,5

Teaching/training activities

Lectures

Annual hours

132

Teaching/training activities

Professional activity

Annual hours

1100

Teaching/training activities

Personal study

Annual hours

280,5

Teaching/training activities

Final thesis

Annual hours

0

Teaching/training activities

Total

Annual hours

1512,5

The thematic cores for the second year of the course are as follows:

  • Physiological bases of cognitive and emotional-motivational processes
  • Genetic Basis of Behavior and Cognitive Disorders
  • Introduction to computer applications for data management and processing
  • Neurotransmitter systems in neurology and psychiatry; Drug Interactions
  • Historical development of the clinical approach and theoretical modelling of cognitive phenomena
  • General Introduction to Psychology for Healthcare Organizations; Participatory Medicine: Professional Identity and the Role of Health Professionals
  • Psychophysiological approach to the sciences of ethics, aesthetics, law, economics, education.
  • Neurophysiological and psychophysiological techniques (electroencephalogram-EEG, magnetoencephalogram-MEG, spectroscopy; evoked potentials; transcranial magnetic stimulation; non-invasive brain stimulation)
  • Clinic of neurodegenerative diseases (dementias, movement disorders: Parkinson's and parkinsonisms; motor neuron diseases), inflammatory (multiple sclerosis, paraneoplastic syndromes), infectious (encephalitis and meningitis) and metabolic diseases of the CNS; Diagnostic Tools
  • Clinic of Personality Disorders and Psychotic Disorders; Clinical Interventions in Patients With Anxiety and Mood Disorders
  • General principles of rehabilitation in neuropsychology
  • Clinical (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis) and cognitive (modelling) framework of attention, executive functions and working memory disorders; planning of rehabilitation intervention; Rehabilitation of head trauma patients
  • Psychiatric classification: classification of psychotic disorders; psychotic manifestations and conduct disorders; differential diagnosis between "primary" and "secondary" forms of organic brain pathology
  • Neurodevelopmental diseases: pervasive disorders, intellectual disability; Childhood epilepsy
  • Introduction to the application of the English language to the analysis of scientific literature

Structure of the second year courses on the basis of groupings:

ECTS

Basic training activities

9

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

Common trunk

10,5

Activities specific to the type of school

5

Professional Neuropsychology

20

Professional Psychotherapy

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

1,5

Other activities

0

Thesis

0

Total

61

Basic training activities

ECTS

9

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

ECTS

Common trunk

ECTS

10,5

Activities specific to the type of school

ECTS

5

Professional Neuropsychology

ECTS

20

Professional Psychotherapy

ECTS

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

ECTS

1,5

Other activities

ECTS

0

Thesis

ECTS

0

Total

ECTS

61

Articulation of the second year courses according to the scientific-disciplinary sectors:

SSD Name of the course Total ECTS DF Hours*

BIO/09

Physiology of cognitive and emotional-motivational mechanisms

2

16

BIO/18

Genetic basis of cognitive disorders

2

16

INF/01

COMPUTER SCIENCE

2,5

8

BIO/14

Neuropsychopharmacology

2

16

MED/02

History of Neuropsychology

0,5

4

M-PSI/06

Work and Organizational Psychology

3

8

M-PSI/02

Psychophysiology 2

7,5

4

MED/26

Neurology and Neurophysiopathology 2

4

8

M-PSI/08

Psychotherapy

15

M-PSI/02

Introduction to Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

6

8

M-PSI/02

Neuropsychology: disorders of attention and executive functions; Planning of rehabilitation intervention

7

8

MED/25

Psychiatry 2

4

8

MED/39

Child Neuropsychiatry 1

4

8

L-LIN/12

Language and Translation - English Language 1

1,5

4

SSD

BIO/09

Name of the course

Physiology of cognitive and emotional-motivational mechanisms

Total ECTS

2

DF Hours*

16

SSD

BIO/18

Name of the course

Genetic basis of cognitive disorders

Total ECTS

2

DF Hours*

16

SSD

INF/01

Name of the course

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Total ECTS

2,5

DF Hours*

8

SSD

BIO/14

Name of the course

Neuropsychopharmacology

Total ECTS

2

DF Hours*

16

SSD

MED/02

Name of the course

History of Neuropsychology

Total ECTS

0,5

DF Hours*

4

SSD

M-PSI/06

Name of the course

Work and Organizational Psychology

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

Psychophysiology 2

Total ECTS

7,5

DF Hours*

4

SSD

MED/26

Name of the course

Neurology and Neurophysiopathology 2

Total ECTS

4

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/08

Name of the course

Psychotherapy

Total ECTS

15

DF Hours*
SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

Introduction to Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Total ECTS

6

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

Neuropsychology: disorders of attention and executive functions; Planning of rehabilitation intervention

Total ECTS

7

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/25

Name of the course

Psychiatry 2

Total ECTS

4

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/39

Name of the course

Child Neuropsychiatry 1

Total ECTS

4

DF Hours*

8

SSD

L-LIN/12

Name of the course

Language and Translation - English Language 1

Total ECTS

1,5

DF Hours*

4

*DF: frontal teaching

Distribution of hours in the different teaching modalities for the second year

Teaching/training activities Annual hours

Lectures

116

Professional activity

1162,5

Personal study

246,5

Final thesis

0

Total

1525

Teaching/training activities

Lectures

Annual hours

116

Teaching/training activities

Professional activity

Annual hours

1162,5

Teaching/training activities

Personal study

Annual hours

246,5

Teaching/training activities

Final thesis

Annual hours

0

Teaching/training activities

Total

Annual hours

1525

The thematic cores for the third year of the course are as follows:

  • Effects of individual-social group interaction on developmental and affective functioning in adulthood.
  • Recent theories of dynamic imprint. Relationship between psychoanalysis and neuroscience
  • Developmental neuropsychology: learning processes, implications for teaching and education
  • Disorders of perception and recognition (agnosias) and cognitive aspects of movement (apraxias); Diagnostic framework and planning of rehabilitation intervention
  • Psychotherapeutic Intervention in Psychosis
  • CNS investigation neuroimaging techniques (CT, MRI, fMRI, SPECT, PET, DAT-scan)
  • Specific learning disability
  • Neoplastic pathology, malformations and cerebral hemorrhages: diagnostic process and cognitive characteristics
  • Integrated rehabilitation approach to the patient with focal brain injury (treatment of cognitive disorders; motor rehabilitation; new technologies; neurostimulation techniques); Rehabilitation of the patient with cognitive impairment
  • Clinic of internal pathologies related to cognitive deficits; acute confusion
  • Introduction to computer applications for the development and administration of neuropsychological tests (E-Prime, Psychopy, OpenSesame)
  • The neuropsychological patient in a multicultural and multilingual society: diagnostic and rehabilitative issues
  • Introduction to Logic and Philosophy of Science
  • Ethics and deontology of the neuropsychologist: individual responsibility; informed consent; Capacity assessment.
  • Organisation of the environment and human health
  • Technological devices for rehabilitation


Articulation of the third-year courses on the basis of groupings:

ECTS

Basic training activities

0

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

Common trunk

6

Activities specific to the type of school

5

Professional Neuropsychology

23

Professional Psychotherapy

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

8,5

Other activities

2

Thesis

0

Total

59,5

Basic training activities

ECTS

0

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

ECTS

Common trunk

ECTS

6

Activities specific to the type of school

ECTS

5

Professional Neuropsychology

ECTS

23

Professional Psychotherapy

ECTS

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

ECTS

8,5

Other activities

ECTS

2

Thesis

ECTS

0

Total

ECTS

59,5

Articulation of the courses of the third year according to the scientific-disciplinary sectors:

SSD Name of the course Total ECTS DF Hours*

M-PSI/06

Social Psychology

3

8

M-PSI/07

Dynamic Psychology

3

8

M-PSI/04

Developmental and Educational Psychology 1

6

8

M-PSI/02

Neuropsychology: agnosia and apraxia; Planning of rehabilitation intervention

13

8

M-PSI/08

Psychotherapy

15

MED/37

Neuroradiology 1

2

8

MED/39

Child Neuropsychiatry 2

4

8

MED/27

Neurosurgery 1

3

8

MED/34

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

2

8

MED/09

Internal Medicine

1

4

L-LIN/12

Language and Translation - English Language 2

1,5

4

ING-INF/05

Information Processing Systems

1

4

SPS/08

Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes

1

8

M-FIL/02

Logic and Philosophy of Science

1

8

MED/43

Forensics

1

8

ICAR/03

Environmental Sanitary Engineering

1

4

ING-INF/06

Bioengineering, Electronics and Computer Science

1

4

SSD

M-PSI/06

Name of the course

Social Psychology

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/07

Name of the course

Dynamic Psychology

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/04

Name of the course

Developmental and Educational Psychology 1

Total ECTS

6

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

Neuropsychology: agnosia and apraxia; Planning of rehabilitation intervention

Total ECTS

13

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/08

Name of the course

Psychotherapy

Total ECTS

15

DF Hours*
SSD

MED/37

Name of the course

Neuroradiology 1

Total ECTS

2

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/39

Name of the course

Child Neuropsychiatry 2

Total ECTS

4

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/27

Name of the course

Neurosurgery 1

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/34

Name of the course

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Total ECTS

2

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/09

Name of the course

Internal Medicine

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

4

SSD

L-LIN/12

Name of the course

Language and Translation - English Language 2

Total ECTS

1,5

DF Hours*

4

SSD

ING-INF/05

Name of the course

Information Processing Systems

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

4

SSD

SPS/08

Name of the course

Sociology of Cultural and Communicative Processes

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-FIL/02

Name of the course

Logic and Philosophy of Science

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/43

Name of the course

Forensics

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

SSD

ICAR/03

Name of the course

Environmental Sanitary Engineering

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

4

SSD

ING-INF/06

Name of the course

Bioengineering, Electronics and Computer Science

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

4

*DF: frontal teaching

 Distribution of hours in the different teaching modalities for the third year

Teaching/training activities Annual hours

Lectures

108

Professional activity

1150

Personal study

229,5

Final thesis

0

Total

1487,5

Teaching/training activities

Lectures

Annual hours

108

Teaching/training activities

Professional activity

Annual hours

1150

Teaching/training activities

Personal study

Annual hours

229,5

Teaching/training activities

Final thesis

Annual hours

0

Teaching/training activities

Total

Annual hours

1487,5

The thematic cores for the fourth year of the programme are as follows:

  • Developmental Neuropsychology, Learning Theories
  • Social cognition deficits in adulthood: clinical (epidemiology, etiopathogenesis) and cognitive (modelling) framework; neuropsychological assessment tools; effects on legal capacity. "Organic" learning disorders: diagnosis and rehabilitation
  • Planning of psychotherapeutic interventions, both individual and group and community, aimed at the recovery of psychosocial well-being by the neuropsychological patient
  • Innovative approaches to the treatment of CNS neoplastic diseases: neuroradiological and neuropsychological techniques for evaluation and monitoring in patients undergoing awake surgery
  • Structure and organization of health facilities: from the outpatient clinic to the hospital
  • organization of "remote" clinical management; telemedicine
  • Introduction to the drafting of research projects, reports and scientific articles. in English
  • Elements of Private Law and Public Law

Structure of the courses of the fourth year on the basis of the groupings:

ECTS

Basic training activities

0

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

Common trunk

0

Activities specific to the type of school

4

Professional Neuropsychology

21

Professional Psychotherapy

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

1

Other activities

3

Thesis

0

Total

59

Basic training activities

ECTS

0

Characterizing activities (common trunk and specific)

ECTS

Common trunk

ECTS

0

Activities specific to the type of school

ECTS

4

Professional Neuropsychology

ECTS

21

Professional Psychotherapy

ECTS

15

Related, Integrative and Interdisciplinary Activities

ECTS

1

Other activities

ECTS

3

Thesis

ECTS

0

Total

ECTS

59

 Structure of the courses of the fourth year according to the scientific-disciplinary sectors:

SSD Name of the course Total ECTS DF Hours*

M-PSI/04

Developmental and Educational Psychology 2

6

8

M-PSI/02

Neuropsychology: social cognition deficits and rehabilitation intervention planning; Rehabilitation of Behavioral Disorders

13

8

M-PSI/08

Psychotherapy: professional activity

15

MED/27

Neurosurgery 2

3

8

MED/37

Neuroradiology 2

3

8

SECS/P-10

Principles of Organization of Healthcare Facilities

1

4

L-LIN/12

Language and Translation - English

1

4

IUS/01

Private law

1

8

IUS/09

Institutions of Public Law

1

8

SSD

M-PSI/04

Name of the course

Developmental and Educational Psychology 2

Total ECTS

6

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/02

Name of the course

Neuropsychology: social cognition deficits and rehabilitation intervention planning; Rehabilitation of Behavioral Disorders

Total ECTS

13

DF Hours*

8

SSD

M-PSI/08

Name of the course

Psychotherapy: professional activity

Total ECTS

15

DF Hours*
SSD

MED/27

Name of the course

Neurosurgery 2

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

MED/37

Name of the course

Neuroradiology 2

Total ECTS

3

DF Hours*

8

SSD

SECS/P-10

Name of the course

Principles of Organization of Healthcare Facilities

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

4

SSD

L-LIN/12

Name of the course

Language and Translation - English

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

4

SSD

IUS/01

Name of the course

Private law

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

SSD

IUS/09

Name of the course

Institutions of Public Law

Total ECTS

1

DF Hours*

8

*DF: frontal teaching

Distribution of hours in the different teaching modalities for the fourth year

Teaching/training activities Annual hours

Lectures

56

Professional activity

925

Personal study

119

Final thesis

375

Total

1475

Teaching/training activities

Lectures

Annual hours

56

Teaching/training activities

Professional activity

Annual hours

925

Teaching/training activities

Personal study

Annual hours

119

Teaching/training activities

Final thesis

Annual hours

375

Teaching/training activities

Total

Annual hours

1475

The frontal teaching activity will have a decreasing hourly weight over the four years of the duration of the School, against a gradual increase in active training activities, so as to allow the resident to progressively acquire autonomy in the application of specific professional skills.

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General Organization / Calendar

 

General Organization

The didactic-training activity will be organized in a flexible way on the basis of the characteristics of the teachings and the logistical needs related to the professionalizing activities, which will be carried out in a significant proportion at complex clinical structures (clinics, hospitals and university polyclinics, and possibly territorial structures).  There will be cycles of lessons concentrated on certain days of the week, for a total of 10-11 weeks for the first three years, and 5 weeks for the fourth year.

The cycles of lectures will be alternated with professional activities in order to ensure continuity and congruence between teaching and clinical application.

Frontal teaching activities will be delivered both in presence and remotely; the venue of the lessons is Milan; some lectures will be delivered from the Rome campus of Università Cattolica, with the aim  of reducing the need for professors and postgraduate students to travel. However, lessons will be delivered synchronously in the classrooms (with classroom tutors) made available both in Milan and in Rome.

Participation "remotely" outside the classrooms will eventually be allowed, at the request of the student and with the authorization of the  School Council, for proven individual needs.