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University College of Physiotherapy
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Mestrado Universitario en Discapacidade e Dependencia (plan 2015)
 Subjects
  Basis of Neuroscience and Neurological Rehabilitation
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Neurological foundations of disability. - Embryology, development and maturation of the nervous system.
-Anatomy and physiology of motor control and postural control systems.
-Anatomy and physiology of the sensory system.
-Identification of the neurological pathologies that generate disability and their characteristics.
-General pathology of brain and spinal neurological injury.
-The pathophysiology of the main semiological findings in neurological patients.
Therapeutic basis and capacity for improvement in neurological pathology. -Aims of therapies which are used in the approach of neurological pathologies.
-Functional capacity concept and disability according to the CIF (WHO, 2001).
- Theoretical models on which physical therapy modalities are based to address neurological pathologies.
-Motor control and motor learning theories, physiology of disability and neuronal regeneration. Mirror neurons physiology.
Basic research in neuroscience. Present and future of research in neuroscience. -Experimental models and laboratory techniques.
-Radiology and imaging techniques for the study of the nervous system.
-Clinical Neurophysiology.
-Kinematic and functional evaluation of neurological pathology.
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