Methods: 131 patients with AD (mild, moderate degree) were included in the investigation according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM IV and MKB 10. 45 AD patients were on galantamine, 43-memantin and 43-combined therapy. The control group includes 45 patients. In our investigation in the main group of AD patients the duration of the disease was from 6 months to 4.3 years, on average 3.3 years. ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is often associated with different neuropsychiatric disturbances including various cognitive symptoms. These impairments , which affect up to 50% of all subjects, are very often reported by the patients , but generally receive poor attention, and are very rarely investigated and measured with standardized tests. This review aims to describe these symptoms, the ...

Only a few studies have considered changes in brain structures other than sensory and motor cortex after spinal cord injury, although cognitive impairments have been reported in these patients. Spinal cord injury results in chronic brain neuroinflammation with consequent neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in rodents. Regarding the hippocampus, neurogenesis is reduced and reactive gliosis i...