Clinical Neuroscience Applied to Physiotherapy
Neurociência clínica aplicada à fisioterapia
Course code:9504224
Ana Cristina Martins Inácio Vidal
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
Acquire knowledge about Neuroscience to develop the following competencies:
- Analyze measurements / monitoring of neurophysiological signals
- Identify the brain mapping and neural network
- Describe neural circuits in the motor task
- Describe neural circuits after injury to the nervous system
- Identify the mechanisms of circuitry in neuromotor disorders
- Identify the mechanisms of circuitry in cognitive disorders, with motor expression
- Structuring the clinical reasoning by integrating the scientific evidence of neuroscience
Syllabus:
From Neuroscience to Clinic:
- Basic concepts of brain mapping methodologies and instrumentation / monitoring of neurophysiological signals
- Brain mapping with study of motor task in healthy and post-injury individuals
- Description of clinical conditions, involving circuitopathies (changes in brain function), with repercussions on motor function and cognitive and / or behavioral performance
- Description of movement dysfunctions (motor task), with behavioral dysfunctions
- Neuroscientific advances, with repercussions on clinical reasoning in physiotherapy
From Clinic to Physical Therapy:
- Neuroscientific concepts integrated in the evaluation in Physiotherapy
- Differentiation, from the neuroscientific perspective, of the acute and chronic phase in neuromuscular dysfunctions
Suggested Bibliography:
- Kandel ER (2003). Princípios da Neurociência: Mc Graw Hill Artmed.
- Almeida LB (2010). Introdução à Neurociência. Arquitectura, função, interacções e doença do sistema nervoso.Lisboa. Climepsi Editores.
- van Hemmem JL, Sejnowski TJ (2006). 23 Problems in Systems Neuroscience: Computational Neuroscience Series
- Papanicolaou AC (2017). The Oxford Handbook of functional brain imaging in neuropsychology and cognitive neurosciences
- Cramer SC, Sur M, Dobkin BH, O'Brien C, Sanger TD, Trojanowski JQ, Vinogradov S (2011). Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications. Brain, 134, 1591-1609.