The overall aim is to provide the theoretical and methodological tools that characterize clinical psychophysiology, as well as the salient aspects concerning psychopathology and its diagnosis, favoring the development of critical skills.

AT THE END OF THE COURSE STUDENTS WILL LEARN:

-how mind and body interact in influencing subjective experience, behavior, and psychological health;

- the main etiological models and the most recent neuroscientific paradigms adopted in the field of clinical psychophysiology;

- the neurobiological basis of the main mental disorders and their symptoms;

- the most innovative psychotherapeutic models;

- the main biomarkers and predictors of efficacy of psychotherapeutic approaches.

In line with Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), students will be able to use the acquired knowledge to understand mental disorders as an aggregate of fundamental disturbances at neuropsychophysiological, affective, cognitive and behavioural levels and how those impairments are present in varying levels across disorders rather than being syndrome-specific.