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Overview: What can be the Background of the Diseases? Stress, Microbiome Changes and Other Effects

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 10 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 10 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-BMV-h-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

ODA-EL2-T finished

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 50

Topic

Nowadays, more and more nutritional, metabolic and psychological disorders are associated with stress. During the course, students can gain a general insight into the physiology of stress and stress-related disorders. By presenting the animal models included in the research, they can get acquainted with the main directions and the advantages / disadvantages of behavioral paradigms. Furthermore, the goal is to provide an overview of current research findings, changes in the microbiome and the relationship between health and disease, and how changes in the microbiome can contribute to successful treatment.

Lectures

  • 1.

    Physiology of stress

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 2.

    Advantages and disadvantages of animal models

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 3.

    Animal models of physiology researches

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 4.

    The role of PrRP in regulation of stress responses

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 5.

    Overview of diseases I.: Disturbances of growth in related to GH, thyroid gland disorders

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 6.

    Overview of diseases II: Stress-related Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 7.

    Pharmacological Therapies for Stress-related Disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 8.

    Animal models of metabolic diseases

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 9.

    Gastrointestinal microbiome

    - Péliné Kovács Anita
  • 10.

    The importance of gastrointestinal microbiome in therapy of diseases

    - Péliné Kovács Anita

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Literature developed by the Department

PowerPoint lectures and videos

Notes

Short notes of the students

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

passing a written test

Mid-term exams

None

Making up for missed classes

No possibility to make up for missed classes.

Exam topics/questions

Writing test (simple choice test questions) based on the topics of lectures at the end of the course.

Examiners

  • Péliné Kovács Anita

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk