Course Syllabus
Aims
The aim of this course (Psychiatry I and II) is to provide the students with the basic information on principles of classification, psychopathology, diagnosis, and main treatment approaches of mental disorders.
Contents
A comprehensive overview on epidemiology, classification, psychopathology, diagnosis, treatment of main mental disorders.
Detailed program
• Signs, symptoms, aetiology, and classification of mental disorders
• Schizophrenia spectrum-disorders and paranoid syndromes
• Depression
• Bipolar Disorders
• Anxiety disorders
• Obsessive compulsive disorders
• Personality and personality disorders
• Alcohol and substance use disorders
• Stress and stress-related disorders
• Psychological and psychosocial interventions
• Eating disorders
• Mental Health care delivery systems
• Emergencies in psychiatry
Prerequisites
Neuroscience 1
Teaching form
The lessons will be provided in attendance, if feasible with ongoing ministerial rules for COVID pandemic situation. Teaching will be based on frontal lessons.
Textbook and teaching resource
Shorter Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry (7 edn)
Paul Harrison, Philip Cowen, Tom Burns, and Mina Fazel
Publisher: Oxford University Press Print Publication
Date: Oct 2017 Published online: Jan 2018
Print ISBN-13: 9780198747437
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780198747437.001.0001
Semester
Year 5, semester I.
Office hours
Appointments by email (giuseppe.carra@unimib.it)