Program Overview

Program Overview

The Sensorineural Plasticity program is a Doctorate (Dottorato) offered by the NEUROSCIENZE, SALUTE MENTALE E ORGANI DI SENSO - NESMOS department. The program's ID is 29523, and it is scheduled for the academic year 2025/2026.

Program Details

• Course Type: Dottorato
• Academic Year: 2025/2026
• Positions: 3
• Grant Numbers: 0
• Number of Scholarships Financed by Institutions: 0
• Number of Scholarships Financed by Consortiums: 1

Educational Goals

The program focuses on the evaluation of changes over time in perception, memory, or cognitive processing abilities following sensory or brain damage. It explores the role of systemic factors in modifying the nervous response to external stimuli or in modulating repair processes, which are affected by immune-mediated factors, including the microbiota. The program also delves into neuro-plasticity concerning behavioral areas of psychiatric interest, such as addiction and phenomena of altered motivational behavior.

Curriculum

The Doctorate will develop through different curricular profiles:

• Curriculum in psychiatry, neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology, and neuropsychiatric rehabilitation, involving the interdisciplinary study of neurobiological and mental processes.
• Curriculum concerning the study of various sensory functions in correlation with cognitive alterations typical of states of senile dementia.
• Curriculum in plastic-dermatological microsurgery, studying the structure and ultrastructure of the skin and neurosensory receptors, as well as the neurobiological processes underlying mechanoreceptive, thermal, pain, and erogenous sensitivity.

Evaluation and Assessment

• Exam: Oral, scheduled for July 14, 2025, at 09:30 in the Sala Riunioni NESMOS, Facoltà Medicina e Psicologia.
• Tests: Evaluation of qualifications, scheduled for July 7, 2025.

Department and Coordinator

• Department: NEUROSCIENZE, SALUTE MENTALE E ORGANI DI SENSO - NESMOS
• Coordinator: Maurizio Simmaco