Clinical Neuroscience - 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

[Clinical neurophysiological methods in diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases]

NAGY Ildikó, FABÓ Dániel

[Neurophysiological methods are gaining ground in the diagnosis and therapy of cerebrovascular disease. While the role of the EEG (electroencephalography) in the diagnosis of post-stroke epilepsy is constant, quantitative EEG para-meters, as new indicators of early efficiency after thrombolysis or in prognosis of patient’s condition have proved their effectiveness in several clinical studies. In intensive care units, continuous EEG monitoring of critically ill patients became part of... tovább »

HUN 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

Insights into the structure and function of the hippocampal formation: Relevance to Parkinson’s disease

GYÖRFI Orsolya, NAGY Helga, BOKOR Magdolna, KÉRI Szabolcs

The link between the hippocampus and declarative memory dysfunctions following the removal of the medial temporal lobe opened unexplored fields in neuroscience. In the first part of our review, we summarized current theoretical frameworks discussing the role of hippocampus in learning and memory. Several theories are highlighted suggesting that the hippocampus is responsible for assembling stimulus elements into a unitary representation that later can be utilized to simulate future events. The... tovább »

ENG 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

[Effects of nasal provocation with a single-dose allergen on the explicit and implicit memory of physically active and inactive patients with ragweed allergy]

TOKODI Margaréta, CSÁBI Eszter, KIRICSI Ágnes, SCHULTZ Rebeka, MOLNÁR H Andor, ROVÓ László, BELLA Zsolt

[Background and purpose - Allergy is an endemic disease and has a considerable impact on the quality of life. This study aimed to measure the effect of active allergic rhinitis on memory functions of physically active and inactive patients with ragweed allergy. Methods - Memory functions were assessed before and after allergen exposure. Participants in both groups were provoked nasally with 30 IR/mL ragweed allergen in each nostril. Explicit memory was measured with story-recalling and implicit... tovább »

HUN 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

Functional neurotoxicity and tissue metal levels in rats exposed subacutely to titanium dioxide nanoparticles via the airways

HORVÁTH Tamara, VEZÉR Tünde, KOZMA Gábor, PAPP András

Introduction and aims - Nanoparticles of titanium dioxide are suspected neurotoxic agents and have numerous applications possibly resulting in human exposure by several ways including inhalation. In the present work, rats were exposed to spherical TiO2 nanoparticles of two different sizes by the intratracheal route. It was investigated how the neuro-functional alterations, detected by electrophysiological and behavioral methods, were related to the concentration of Ti in the tissue samples and... tovább »

ENG 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

Electroclinical and prognostic characteristics of epilepsy patients with photosensitivity

YAZAR Olgun Hülya, GUL Gunay, YAZAR Tamer, EREN Fulya, KUSCU Yandım Demet, KIRBAS Dursun

Background - Epilepsy with photosensitivity (PSE) is one of the reflex epilepsy types with pathophysiology still unexplained. In our study we aimed to evaluate the clinical, electroencephalogram (EEG) and prognosis of patients with PSE diagnosis. Method - A total of 44 patients with PSE diagnosis according to international classification were included in this retrospective and cross-sectional study. The age, gender, syndrome, clinical and EEG characteristics of patients, and treatment response... tovább »

ENG 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

Alteration of mean platelet volume in the pathogenesis of acute ischemic stroke: cause or consequence?

AYAS Özözen Zeynep, CAN Ufuk

Introduction - Platelets have a crucial role on vascular disease which are involved in pathogenesis of ischemic stroke. Platelet size is measured as mean platelet volume (MPV) and is a marker of platelet activity. Platelets contain more dense granules as the size increases and produce more serotonin and tromboglobulin (b-TG) than small platelets. In this study, the alteration of MPV values were investigated in patients with acute stroke, who had MPV values before stroke, during acute ischemic... tovább »

ENG 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

Association of cardiovascular risk factors and Parkinson’s disease - case-control study in South East Hungary

MARKÓ-KUCSERA Mária, VÉCSEI László, PAULIK Edit

Aims - Parkinson’s disease (PD) has the second highest incidence among neurodegenerative diseases in the world population. The study aimed to investigate the presence of some cardiovascular risk factors - dyslipidemia, diabetes, and hypertension - in PD patients and to compare their risk with non-PD population in South East Hungary. Methods - A case-control study was conducted at the Department of Neurology, University of Szeged, Hungary. The study included 1299 subjects out of which 620... tovább »

ENG 2018;71(01-02)

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2018

[The facets of creativity in the light of bipolar mood alterations]

SZAKÁCS Réka

[The link between creativity, as the highest expression form of human achievement, and bipolar disorder came into focus of scientific investigations and research. Accomplished writers, composers and visual artists show a substantially higher rate of affective disorders, prodominantly bipolar mood disorders, comparing to the general population. Then again, patients afflicted with bipolar II subtype (hypomania and depression), as well as persons presenting the mildest form of bipolar mood swings... tovább »

HUN 2018;71(01-02)