It is a fundamental objective of the course to provide the student in Medicine and Surgery with morpho-functional information on the structure of internal organs (Splancnology) and of the Human Nervous System, essential to the practice of basic medicine. Besides the study of the essential morphological characteristics of these systems, the functional correlates at cellular and sub-cellular level must therefore be clarified. The student will have to learn the contents of Splancnology and Neuroanatomy, necessary to face the patient's examination, and to understand symptomatological aspects and their evolution in pathological degeneration.
The student will also have to acquire the knowledge of how the structural organization of the various apparatuses is realized during the course of embryonic development.
The subject will be treated with a systematic and descriptive approach, allowing the student to acquire the anatomical language and to know the multiple elements constituting these parts of the human body in functionally homogeneous apparatuses. The morpho-functional integration between the different apparatuses, and the structural relationships that are realized between them in localized areas of the human body, relevant from the clinical point of view, will instead be treated according to a topographic perspective, also giving notions of radiological anatomy.