Mind, Brain and Education

This book, Mind, Brain and Education, comprises selected topics from Neurology and Psychiatry, showing both their common ground and their differences. A special emphasis is given to the role of scientific gathering with the Mind & Brain Congress as a platform for educating younger colleagues and widening their perspectives in the field of both disciplines. With the new discipline of Psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology (PNEI) and its translation to clinical practice, our long-standing comprehensive approach to the interrelation and bridging of the mind and the brain contributes to a better understanding of this challenging topic.

The reader can find new facts showing how diseases are the result of an alteration at the bio-psycho-social level. PNEI provides knowledge about the biological dynamics of conventional medicine and of the importance of lifestyle changes in order to fight disease.

Written by experts in the field, the exceptional new approach provided by thisbook, makes it an innovative tool for spreading new knowledge, and implementing it in everyday clinical practice for the benefit of patients and even more so, to prevent them becoming patients in the first place.

Introduction.- Neuroaesthetics – how we like what we like.- Neuroimaging of art.- How things exist: Interdependence whose essence is compassion.- Disrupted sleep and brain functioning.- Migraine and Interoception.- Shame in the Context of Personality and Eating Disorders Patients.- Separation anxiety disorder – is there a justification for a distinct diagnostic category?.- The emerging concept of and treatment approaches to Autoimmune Psychosis.- A Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body: an Overview on the Effects of Physical Activity on the Brain.- Next generation technologies in functional neurosurgery.- Successful Maintenance of Brain Sharpness.- Dietary habits of patients with epilepsy.- The role of  amateur sports on cognitive functions.- Functional Neurological Disorders.- Psychoneuroimmunology in Pula: a hot topic with a long past.- Therapeutic interventions in psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology.- Secondary stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation: From nothing to directoral anticoagulants.- Telestroke – Illusion or Reality.- Hemodynamic Changes on Transcranial Duplex Sonography to Predict Poor Outcome after Mechanical Thrombectomy.- Extra- and Intracranial Arterial Dissections in Young Adults: Endovascular Treatment with Stent Implantation.- Headaches in cerebrovascular diseases.- Calcitonin gene-related peptide induced changes of internal homeostatic body model; translation from TCD studies.- Contemporary cerebrospinal fluid analysis in multiple sclerosis.- A role of deep brain stimulation in advanced Parkinson’s disease.- Serum Carnitine Levels in Outpatient Huntington’s Disease Population, Brief Report and Review of Literature.- Ten year- follow-up of a diabetic patient with vascular complications.- Autism: Insights from brain, mind, and education.- Co-Creativity with Children and Adolescents.- The Alps – Adria Section and the current trends in Clinical Neurosciences.- Neurosurgery in the Pula Congresses - a Review at the 60th Jubilee Anniversaryof the Congress.- The “Psychopathology Summer School” within the INPC.- ‘Mind & Brain’ International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress - reflections on 60 years of tradition.- ‘Mind & Brain’ International Neuropsychiatric Pula Congress – the event which direct future career.

Professor Vida Demarin, MD, Ph.D. graduated from School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she gained her Master of Science thesis and Doctor of Philosophy degree. She finished her residency in neuropsychiatry in University Hospital Centre “Sestre milosrdnice”, Zagreb, Croatia.

She was Head of Department of Clinical Neurology and Centre for Neurological Sciences and Brain Research in University Hospital Centre “Sestre Milosrdnice” (1994.-2012.), medical director of Medical Centre Aviva (2012-2015), director of International Institute for Brain Health (2015.-on going).

She is a full member and fellow of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. She published more than 450 different papers in national and international journals, organized and participated in numerous symposia, seminars, conferences and congresses. She mentored numerous Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Science theses, research fellows, residents and students.

ProfessorDemarin’s field of interest is stroke prevention and management, neurorehabilitation, neurodegenerative disorders and dementia, management of headache and migraine, neuroplasticity, and neuropathic pain. She was principal investigator of numerous research projects. She is a pioneer of neurosonology in Croatia, and the founder of Summer Stroke School – Healthy Lifestyle and Prevention of Stroke and Other Brain Impairments, that has been organized in Dubrovnik, Croatia since 1990.

Professor Vida Demarin is a member of numerous national and international professional societies, president of Kuratorium of Mind&Brain INPC, Fellow of American Academy of Neurology, Fellow of American Heart Association, Fellow of European Stroke Organization, Fellow of European Academy of Neurology, Fellow of World Stroke Organization, as well as a member of several Subspecialty Panels of EAN,  member of Executive Board of Central and Eastern European Stroke Society, honorary member of Polish Neurologic Society and more.

She developed intensive collaboration with colleagues from all over the world and especially with colleagues from central and eastern European countries, in order to spread knowledge and skills and interchange of ideas. She participated as a lecturer at several ESO Summer Schools as well as at several RTCs, building new connections and friendships. Only working together, under WFN motto: There is no health, without brain health, we can be successful in the fight against brain diseases

 

Prof. Leontino Battistin, MD, PhD. Born in Fiume (actually Rijeka, Croatia), graduated in Medicine at the University of Padova Medical School in 1963; Specialist in Neurology in 1967. During the years 1967-1970 he was Research Fellow at the Institute for Neurochemistry, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Full Professor of Neurology from 1980 and then Director of the Department of Neurosciences of the Medical School of the University of Padova from 1989 to 2009. He was the Scientific Director of the Research Hospital for Neurorehabilitation, IRCCS San Camillo, Venice, from 2005 to 2014.

He has been member of the Executive Council of the Italian Society of Neurology and the President of the Italian Society for Parkinson's Disease; he was a member of the Executive Committee on Extrapyramidal Disorders, chaired by Melvin Yahr, and after by Donald Calne, and of the one on Dementia of the World Federation of Neurology and, in 2009, Chairman of the Research Group for Organization and Delivery of Neurological Services;  he has been  elected at the WCN in London Vice-President for Europe of the World Federation of Neurology for the years 2001-2005; also, he has been the President of the European Society for Clinical Neuropharmacology during the years 2000-2008; he is a member of numerous International Scientific Societies, and Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. He has been also a member ofthe Editorial Board of international journals of neuroscience and clinical neurology.

He has organized various International Symposia on specific themes of neuroscience; he was the President of the 11th World Congress on Parkinson's Disease that was held for the first time in Italy, Rome, in 1994, and President of the 2^nd World Congress on Neurorehabilitation held in Venice, in 2002, when the World Federation on Neurorehabilitation was founded; also, he has been the Honorary President of the XXV World  Congress of Neurology held in Rome, Italy, in October 2021.

He has published more than 300 papers in various international and national journals and edited ten volumes on specific arguments of neurology; his main scientific interests have always been cerebral metabolism and function especially in degenerative diseases of the nervous system, like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, as well as in cerebrovascular diseases and in neurorehabilitation.

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