PHARMACOTHERAPY OF HIGH-COST DISEASES
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 4° YearCredit Value: 6
Scientific field: BIO/14 - Pharmacology
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester: One-year
Learning Objectives
To provide the most in-depth and current knowledge on the treatment of high cost diseases. Information is provided on the clinical aspects of these pathologies, on their molecular aspects, on the effects of drugs in the mechanisms underlying the pathologies themselves, and finally on adoptable therapeutic strategies.
Learning skills: the student will be able to learn the basics of clinical pharmacology of the most commonly used drugs.
Making judgments: the student will develop critical skills useful for evaluating the responses to pharmacotherapeutic treatments.
Ability to solve a problem: the student will be stimulated to propose solutions to questions asked by the professor.
Course Structure
Classroom lessons
Detailed Course Content
Pharmacotherapy of the following diseases:
- Anxiety disorders
- Depression and mania
- Psychosis
- Stroke
- Epilepsy
- Migraine
- Multiple sclerosis
- Pain
- Diabetes
- Dyslipidemia
- Alzheimer's disease.
Textbook Information
Goodman & Gilman's - The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.