Psychiatry and psychopharmacology
[PSY1331]
[60h] 5 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Dominique Charlier, Dominique Charlier, Eric Constant, Philippe Meire(coord.), Jean-Paul Roussaux, Arlette Seghers
Language: French
Level: First
Aims
Applications to different stages in life from a perspective which links the different biological, psychological and social approaches.
Main themes
- discussion of the syndrome-based and dimensional approach in psychiatry
- neurobiological bases of psychiatry (genetics, receptors and neurotransmission, chronobiology, electrophysiology, neuroendocrine tests, human pharmacology)
- nosography (childhood and other ages) : description, scales, pathogenesis
(especially the biological dimension), treatments (idem). Special emphasis on organic mental disorders and the biological bases of drug abuse
- special psychiatry : suicide, legal psychiatry, post-partum, emergencies and attacks, therapies, indications and effects of psychotropic drugs and other medicines.
Content and teaching methods
- Part 1 : general clinical practice
Psycho-organic disorders, acquired psycho-organic disorders, mental retardation, psychopathological disorders, mood disorders, psychotic disorders, neurotic and anxiety disorders, personality disorders, behaviour disorders, drug abuse, eating disorders, sexual disorders, psychosomatic disorders.
- Part 2 : special issues
Suicide and attempted suicide, involuntary confinement, psychopathological disorders in the perinatal period, psychotherapies, review of the main psychiatric drugs.
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)