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PSYC-I6026

Pharmacologie, dopage et éléments d'algologie

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Jennifer FOUCART (Coordinator), Gilles NAEIJE and Turgay TUNA

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

  • Brief summary of the functional and structural pathways involved in pain: nociception and nociceptive fibres activation, pain afferent pathways (discriminative, affective and motivational components), referred pain, central pain regulatory pathways.
  • Description of analgesic drugs targets and mechanisms of action according to the different steps of nociceptive stimuli transduction and modulation: inflammatory reaction (steroidal and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), muscles (myorelaxant drugs), peripheral nerve (activation, facilitation and propagation), spinal nociceptive neurons (gate control theory), peri-acqueducal grey matter, opoidergic system and high level cortical control (Attentional, limbic and hypothalamic).
  • Pragmatic method of analgesic drug selection based on real-life clinical patterns. Red flags in analgesia, sequential drug selection, drugs combinations (positive/negative interactions). Analgesic drugs limitations, number needed to treat (NNT) to get a benefice and combined pharmacological and non- pharmacological treatments.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

  • Provide a clinical, pragmatical and rational approach of the drugs available to treat acute and chronic musculoskeletal pain

Teaching methods and learning activities

  • Ex-cathedra lessons with Power Point slides

Course notes

  • Université virtuelle

Other information

Campus

Erasme

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Oral examination

Oral examination

Language(s) of evaluation

  • french
  • (if applicable english )

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