DIVISION OF NEUROPATHOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY
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Division of Neuropathology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Room A506 PUH 200 Lothrop Street Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Tel: 412-647-9417 |
NEUROPATHOLOGY TRAINING MANUAL
Educational Objectives
Forensic Neuropathology
- Subjects in Forensic Neuropathology
- The neuropathology of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
- To learn the possible neuropathologic findings that are associated with SIDS.
- Neuropathologic basis of sudden, unexpected death in the pediatric age group.
- To learn the forensic analytic and deductive decision making processes in detecting reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and/ or homicide in an apparent natural manner of death in a child due to diseases of the CNS.
- To learn how to recognize and describe specific constellations of patterns of craniocerebral injury that are pathognomonic of fatal adult-induced, non-accidental trauma in childhood.
- The neuropathology of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP)
- To learn the possible neuropathological findings in SUDEP especially in relation to describing gross and microscopic features of cerebral dysmorphisms and/ or neocortical dysplasia.
- To learn the putative mechanisms of death in SUDEP.
- Mechanisms of craniocerebral trauma and complications of brain trauma.
- To learn the different pathologic findings in brain trauma with emphasis on blunt force, translational force, acceleration and deceleration craniocerebral injuries.
- To learn the mechanisms of trauma of the central nervous system in relation to the distinct anatomy of the skull, intracranial cavity, brain and spinal column.
- To learn the possible complications and sequelae of trauma to the brain with emphasis on timing of a forensic event and the sequential occurrence of such complications and sequelae.
- The neuropathological basis of sudden death in nursing home residents.
- To learn how to correlate neuropathologic evidence of neurodegenerative diseases with terminal forensic circumstances and formulate an opinion regarding the cause and mechanism of death.
- Neuropathological basis of inadvertent therapeutic misadventures
- To learn the most common fatal inadvertent therapeutic misadventures that are encountered in neurological and neurosurgical medicine.
- Medicolegal Aspects of Neuropathology
- To learn basic medicolegal syntax e.g. forensic significance and consequence of findings, cause of death, manner of death, inquest, deposition, expert witness, expert opinion.
- To learn the basic protocol for writing a medicolegal report.
- To learn basic court room etiquette and protocol by witnessing at least one oral deposition or one pre-trial inquest and one court room testimony given by a Forensic Pathologist.
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