Specialities

Psychiatry

Lege Artis Medicinae

MARCH 26, 2024

[Blooming again – women’s life paths after brain injury ]

MASÁT Orsolya, BÁLINT Brigitta, BOLLA Brigitta, GORJANÁCZ Ilona, SIPOS Hédi, BÚZÁS Lili, DÉNES Zoltán

[After a serious brain injury or trauma, there is damaged the functional capacity of the affected persons and their self-image too. Traditional rehabilitation pays little attention to the female patients’ lost femininity. The aim of this study was to present the way of supporting women to realize again their femininity psychologically and physically alike after a brain injury.

In the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit of the National Institute for Medical Rehabilitation, the authors completed the female patients’ rehabilitation with special group sessions once a week. The topics were tailored to the needs of participants. There were targeted two specific objectives: achieving to perceive femininity in an autonomous way and regaining the feeling of femininity in the changed life circumstances due to the injury.

Occupational therapist, physiotherapists and nurses provided service to develop functional abilities. A psychologist helped the participants in trauma processing. Since the beginning in January 2022, two therapy cycles have been completed so far, each of which with 10-12 sessions. A total of 31 female patients and 8 supporting team members participated in these two groups so far.

Personalised rehabilitation was adjusted to the involved persons’ life circumstances, individuality, personality, family and social relations. Our experimental female group helped the participants to experience their femininity physically, mentally and psychologically too, according to their feedback.]

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2024

Factors affecting long-term prognosis in adult patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures

MELIHA TURKSEVER, BABURHAN GULDIKEN, HULYA OZKAN, MERVE Melodi CAKAR

Among epileptic patients who are monitored using the video-electroencephalography monitoring (VEM) technique, in some patients a psychogenic non-epileptic seizure (PNES) can be identified as a definitive diagnosis. The longterm prognosis of these patients is not well known. In this study, we aimed to determine the factors that affect the prognosis of PNES. Forty-one PNES patients diagnosed using VEM between 2012 and 2022

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2024

Study protocol of the Hungarian Longitudinal Study of Healthy Brain Aging (HuBA)

BANKÓ M. Éva , WEISS Béla , HEVESI István , MANGA Annamária , VAKLI Pál , HAVADI-NAGY Menta , KELEMEN Rebeka , SOMOGYI Eszter , HOMOLYA István , BIHARI Adél , SIMON Ádám , NÁRAI Ádám , TÓTH Krisztina , BÁTHORI Noémi , TOMACSEK Vivien , HORVÁTH András , KAMONDI Anita , RACSMÁNY Mihály, DÉNES Ádám , SIMOR Péter , KOVÁCS Tibor , HERMANN Petra , VIDNYÁNSZKY Zoltán

Neurocognitive aging and the associated brain diseases impose a major social and economic burden. Therefore, substantial efforts have been put into revealing the lifestyle, the neurobiological and the genetic underpinnings of healthy neurocognitive aging. However, these studies take place almost exclusively in a limited number of highly­developed countries. Thus, it is an important open

Clinical Neuroscience

JANUARY 30, 2024

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with a benign prognosis in an immunocompetent patient – A case report

ZEYNEP ÖZDEMIR, SERAP Ruken TEKER, BURCU YÜKSEL, AYSUN SOYSA

John Cunningham virus (JCV) is most commonly acquired in childhood and is often asymptomatic throughout life. However, in the case of primary or secondary immunosuppression, it is known to cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in the central nervous system. Hereby, we describe a rare case of PML in a patient without known factors of immunosuppression or use of immunomodulation.

Hypertension and nephrology

DECEMBER 18, 2023

[Role of renal P2Y12 receptors in lithium-induced polyuria]

RADÓ János

[Clinicians and investigators know since ages that increased production of prostaglandins play a significant role in the pathogenesis of polyuria of patients with Bartter syndrome.]

Lege Artis Medicinae

DECEMBER 19, 2023

[The role of brain neural networks in the developing dementia: our research methods from optogenetics to artificial intelligence]

HANGYA Balázs

[In the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience of the Institute of Experimental Medicine, our main objective is the better understanding of the brain mechanisms of cognitive functions. We investigate the nervous system basis of learning, memory, attention and decision-making not only in normal conditions but also in pathological ones, especially concerning the neurodegenerative dementias such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s dis­ease. 



Our main profile is conducting animal studies, but we carry out hu­man research too in collaboration with clinical partners. We analyse multichannel, i.e. multidimensional electrophysiological signals using both classical and modern statistical methods and new and powerful machine learning algorithms. 



This study presents the activity of our team, while focusing on artificial intelligence app­lications.

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