Update yourself and turn your professional career around thanks to this Hybrid Master's Degree”

Today's medicine is advancing rapidly. Every year new pathologies are discovered and new specialized treatments are developed in very complex areas such as neurology. Because of this, Neurodegenerative Diseases are one of the major current concerns in the health field. These affect a large percentage of the population, especially the elderly, so harming vulnerable people and their family environments. 

For this reason, it is important to keep up to date in this area in order to offer the best treatments and care to these patients. This Hybrid Master's Degree in Neurodegenerative Diseases is the perfect program for medical professionals to deepen their knowledge of the subject and  become renowned doctors specialized in this discipline. Thanks to its innovative online teaching methodology, based on the resolution of practical cases, and its on-site stay, students will be prepared to face all the challenges of the profession. 

Have the possibility to have access to a practical stay in a reference center where you can be in contact with real patients suffering from this type of pathology is a great opportunity to progress. This program includes a 3-week stay in a renowned institution specialized in this type of pathology. It will be carried out intensively, from Monday to Friday, for 8 hours a day. 

This ensures that the students of this program can develop new skills thanks to the continuous and fluid nature of this stay, which will allow students to enjoy numerous clinical cases with which to continue learning. It combines, therefore, an online learning process in which students can obtain a series of new knowledge on Neurodegenerative Diseases with a face-to-face stay where they can put into practice the new tools and skills acquired.

Go deeper into the field of Neurodegenerative Diseases and spend a face-to-face stay in a reference center with this Hybrid Master's Degree”

This Hybrid Master's Degree in Neurodegenerative Diseases contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features include:

• Development of more than 100 clinical cases presented by medical professionals specialized in Neurodegenerative Diseases
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Acquisition of differential diagnostic methods applied to Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision making in clinical situations 
• Practical clinical guides on approaching different pathologies 
• All this will be complemented with theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, discussion forums on controversial issues and individual reflection work
• Availability of content from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection
• In addition, you will be able to carry out a clinical internship in one of the best hospitals in the world

Advance professionally. The 3-week intensive stay at a prestigious healthcare institution will make you a highly reputable physician"

In this Hybrid Master's Degree proposal, of a professionalizing nature and blended learning modality, the program is aimed at updating medical professionals who perform their functions in neurology units, and who require a high level of qualification. The contents are based on the latest scientific evidence, and oriented in a didactic way to integrate theoretical knowledge into medical practice, and the theoretical-practical elements will facilitate the updating of knowledge and will allow decision making in patient management.

Thanks to its multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, they will allow the medical professional a situated and contextual learning, that is to say, a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning programmed to train in real situations. The design of this program is focused on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which students must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the program. For this purpose, the student will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned experts.

Learn the latest developments in the field of Neurodegenerative Diseases and become a prestigious physician"

This Hybrid Master's Degree is what you were looking for: enroll now and reach all your goals"
 

The syllabus of this Hybrid Master's Degree in Neurodegenerative Diseases has been designed by great specialists in the field, and they know perfectly the day to day of the profession, so all the contents of this program will be useful to students in their professional practice. For that reason, this curriculum is the best possible, as it is focused on the workplace. In this way, this syllabus is designed to be taught with a practical approach. 

You won't find a better curriculum to delve deeper into Neurodegenerative Diseases. Enroll now and get up to date”

Module 1. Etiology and Biopathology of Neurodegenerative Diseases

1.1. Concepts and Classification of Neurodegenerative Diseases 
1.2. Pathophysiology and Classification of Neurodegenerative Diseases 

1.2.1. Neurodegenerative Dementias 
1.2.2. Neruodegenerative Diseases Expressed by Movement Disorders 

1.3. Genetics in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Human Aging 

1.3.1. Patterns of Genetic Alteration in Neurodegenerative Disorders 
1.3.1. Genetics of Human Aging 

1.4. Animal Models in Neurodegenerative Diseases 
1.5. Mechanisms of Cell Loss in Neurodegenerative Diseases 
1.6. Inheritance in Neurodegenerative Diseases 
1.7. Genetic Counseling in Neurodegenerative Diseases 
1.8. Proteomics and Neurodegenerative Diseases 

1.8.1. Classification of Neurodegenerative Disorders According to Their Protein Disruption 

1.9. Epidemiology of Neurodegenerative Diseases 
1.10. Social and Economic Burden of Neurodegenerative Diseases 

Module 2.  Neurodegenerative Dementias

2.1. Alzheimer’s Disease
2.2. Clinical Variants of Alzheimer’s Disease 
2.3. Familial Alzheimer's Disease 
2.4. Fronto-Temporal Dementia 
2.5. Dementia Lobar Degeneration with Immunoreactive Inclusions for FUS 
2.6. Pick Disease 
2.7. Biomarkers of Neurodegenerative Dementias 
2.8. Progressive Subcortical Gliosis 
2.9. Treatment of Dementias 

2.9.1. Medical treatment 
2.9.2. Symptomatic Treatment
2.9.3. New Perspectives in the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Dementias 

2.10. Socio-Sanitary Problems and Palliative Treatment of Neurodegenerative Dementias 

Module 3. Neurodegeneration and parkinsonism

3.1. Parkinson's Disease 
3.2. Differential Diagnosis of Parkinsonism 
3.3. Lewy Body Dementia 
3.4. Progressive Supranuclear Palsy 
3.5. Cortico-Basal Degeneration 
3.6. Taupathias 
3.7. Multisystem Atrophies 

3.7.1. Shy-Drager Syndrome 
3.7.2. Oliponto-Cerebellar Atrophy 
3.7.3. Striato-Nigric Degeneration 

3.8. Parkinson-Dementia Syndromes 
3.9. Huntington's Disease 
3.9.1. Clinical Manifestations 
3.9.2. Pharmacological Management 
3.10. Hyposmia in Neurodegenerative Disorders 

Module 4. Neurodegenerative Motor Neuron Diseases and Hereditary Spastic Parapesia

4.1. Upper Motor Neuron Diseases Primary Lateral Sclerosis 
4.2. Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis 
4.3. Chronic Spinal Muscular Atrophy 
4.4. Oras Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophies 
4.5. Sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 
4.6. Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 
4.7. Treatment of Amitrophic Lateral Sclerosis 

4.7.1. Multidisciplinary Team in the Treatment of ALS Patients 
4.7.2. Pharmacological Management of the ALS Patient New Perspectives

4.8. Gene Therapy for Chronic Spinal Muscular Atrophy 
4.9. Post-Polio Syndrome 
4.10. ALS-Parkinson's-Dementia Complex 

Module 5. Neurodegenerative Epilepsy Syndromes

5.1. Epilepsy in Adult Neurodegenerative Diseases 
5.2. Neurodegeneration in Epilepsy 
5.3. Neurodegeneration and Epilepsy Excitotoxicity 
5.4. Progressive Myoclonic Epilepsy 

5.4.1. Genetic Disorders in Myoclonic Epilepsies 

5.5. Lafora Disease 
5.6. Unverricht-Lundborg Disease 
5.7. Epilepsy with Progressive Mental Retardation 
5.8. Hemiconvusion-Epilepsy-Hemiplegia-Epilepsy Syndrome 
5.9. Parkinsonisms and Epilepsy 
5.10. Treatment of Epilepsy in Neurodegenerative Diseases 

Module 6. Neurodegenerative Ataxias

6.1. Clinical Approach and Classification of Progressive Cerebellar Ataxias 
6.2. Autosomal-Dominant Ataxias Genetic Mutations and Genotype-Phenotype Correlation 
6.3. Autosomal Recessive Ataxias 
6.4. Episodic Ataxias 

6.4.1. Episodic Ataxia Type 1 
6.4.2. Episodic Ataxia Type 2 

6.5. Heredoataxias Associated with Genetic Alterations of Metabolism 
6.6. Friedreich's Ataxia 
6.7. Ataxias Secondary to Mutations in Mitochondrial ADN 
6.8. Sporadic Progressive Ataxias 
6.9. Fragile X Syndrome, Tremor, and Ataxia 
6.10. Neurological Alterations Secondary to Vitamin E Deficiency 

Module 7. Diagnostic Methods of Neurodegenerative Diseases

7.1. Use of Genetic Analysis for Clustering and Separation of Neurodegenerative Diseases
7.2. Neuroimaging in Neurodegenerative Dementias 
7.3. Neuroimaging in Neurodegenerative Parkinsonisms 
7.4. Clinical Utility of Markers in Blood and Cerebrospinal Fluid 
7.5. Positron Emission Tomography in Neurodegenerative Disorders 
7.6. Utility of Biopsy in Neurodegenerative Diseases 
7.7. Neuropsychological Tests in Neurodegenerative Dementias 

Module 8. Neuroectodermal Neurodegenerative Disorders

8.1. Neurofibromatosis
8.2. Tuberous Sclerosis of Bourneville 
8.3. Sturge-Weber Disease 
8.4. Von Hippel-Lindau Disease 
8.5. Ataxia-Telangiectasia 
8.6. Neurocutaneous Melanosis 
8.7. Xeroderma Pigmentosum 
8.8. Cerebrotendinous Xanthomatosis 
8.9. Hypomelanosis of Ito 
8.10. Menkes Disease 

Module 9. Neurodegenerative Disorders Caused by Prions

9.1. Introduction to the Neurodegenerative Pathology Caused by Priors 
9.2. Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 

9.2.1. Incidence 
9.2.2. Symptomatic Treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 

9.3. Cie Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ("Mad Cow disease") 
9.4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Genetics 
9.5. Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease 
9.6. Fatal Family Insomnia 
9.7. Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Disease 
9.8. Kuru Disease 
9.9. Protease-Sensitive Prionopathy 

Module 10. Other Neurodegenerative Disorders

10.1. Hereditary Amyloidosis and Neurodegeneration 
10.2. Neurodegeneration with Iron Accumulation in the Brain 
10.3. Familial Encephalopathy Due to Neuroserpin Inclusion Bodies 
10.4. Hereditary Ferritinopathies 
10.5. Neurodegenerative Disease Due to Copper Metabolism Disorder 
10.6. Cadasil 
10.7. Amyloid Angiopathy 
10.8. Neurodegenerative Dystonia 
10.9. Neurodegeneration in Multiple Sclerosis   

It delves into the most relevant theory in this field, subsequently applying it in a real work environment”