1. Techniques in neuropathology 2. Banking brain tissue for research 3. Cellular reactions of the central nervous system 4. Raised intracranial pressure and brain edema 5. Cerebrospinal fluid circulation and hydrocephalus 6. Developmental and perinatal brain diseases 7. Neuropathology of cerebrovascular diseases 8. Neurotrauma 9. Neurometabolic and neurodegenerative diseases in children 10. Mitochondrial diseases 11. Neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation 12. Nutritional and systemic metabolic disorders 13. Alcohol-related diseases 14. Neurotoxicology and drug-related disorders 15. Neuropathology of epilepsy 16. Acute and chronic bacterial infections and sarcoidosis 17. Acute and chronic viral infections 18. Parasitic and fungal infections 19. Inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system 20. Immune-mediated disorders 21. Concepts and classification of neurodegenerative diseases 22. Genetics of neurodegenerative diseases: An overview 23. Alzheimer disease 24. Alpha-synucleinopathies 25. Tauopathies 26. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and non-tau frontotemporal lobar degeneration 27. Trinucleotide repeat disorders 28. Prion diseases 29. Spinal cord 30. Diseases of the skeletal muscle 31. Diseases of the peripheral nerves 32. Clinical neuropathology of brain tumors 33. Bioimaging and surgery of brain tumors 34. Brain tumors - other treatment modalities 35. Overview of cerebrospinal fluid cytology 36. Comorbodities and neuropathology 37. Overview of neuroradiology
A comprehensive neuropathological resource written specifically for the non-pathologist, with an emphasis on clinicopathology, imagine and molecular pathology/genetics
Dr. Gabor G. Kovacs is Associate Professor at the Medical
University of Vienna, Vienna Austria. After receiving his MD degree
his work has been devoted to neurology and neuropathology, i.e. the
study of tissue alterations in diseases of the nervous system for
diagnostic and research purposes. In addition to qualification in
clinical neurology (1998) and neuropathology (2003), he received
his PhD for Neuroscience in 2002. He has been involved in the
surveillance of human prion disease for more than 20 years and
currently leads a research team on neurodegenerative diseases. His
achievements include first descriptions, characterization and
pathogenic elucidation of several peculiar types of neurological
diseases, like frontotemporal dementia with globular glial
inclusions or another one affecting elderly individuals; biomarker
research; comparative studies of brain ageing and brain
development; and pathogenesis studies on prion diseases. He has
more than 220 published papers and several book chapters (including
the editing of a book on neurodegenerative diseases), covering a
wide range of topics from clinical neurology to neuropathology and
molecular neuroscience. He serves in the editorial board of several
journals.
Affiliations and expertise:
Institute of Neurology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna,
Austria
Expertise: Neurology and Neuropathology Dr. Irina Alafuzoff is
currently professor in neuropathology at the Uppsala University,
Institution in Immunology Genetics and Pathology, senior consultant
at Uppsala University Hospital, Department of pathology, Uppsala,
Sweden. She is a licensed physician since 1987, licensed
pathologist since 1991 and she gained her title as Doctor in
Medical Sciences in 1986. She has been professor in neuropathology
since 2007 first at Kuopio University, Finland and since 2009 at
Uppsala University, Sweden. During 7 years (2010-2016) she was the
clinical director of the Department of Pathology at Uppsala
University Hospital. She is member of the Brain Net Europe
consortium funded by European Union during 8 years (2001-2008),
headed by the professor Hans Kretzschmar. The objective of BNE
consortium was to facilitate the use of human brain tissue in
research and standardize/harmonize the diagnostics of
neurodegenerative diseases. She has more than 220 published papers
and several book chapters. Her primary interest has been and is
research in human brain diseases and lately the emphasis has been
research on human brains of cognitively unimpaired aged
individuals. She and her team of researchers in Kuopio and Uppsala
were one of the first to report that neurodegenerative alterations
are more common that even expected in the aging brain. She and her
coworkers have also looked at the association of various brain
lesions with a number of systemic disorders and genetic risk
factors. She has also been active in the education of medical
students, residents and fellows and currently she is the president
of the Swedish Society of Pathology.
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