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Medical Biochemistry has an irreplaceable role in study of Dental Medicine. The students should learn about biochemical reactions taking place in the human body. The knowledge will help them better understand processes take place in the mouth. In firsts semester is study concentrated to metabolic processes connected with metabolism of nutrients (e.g. saccharides, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids). In second semester is teaching focused to study metabolism of organs (e.g. liver, kidney), hard tissue and to oral biochemistry and pathobiochemistry (e.g. dental plaque, tooth decay and tartar).

The lecture addresses the issue of dementia, a progressive syndrome characterized by a decline in cognitive functions that interferes with the affected individual's daily life. The introduction explains the basic concepts, types of dementia, and their prevalence, with a particular focus on Alzheimer’s disease as the most common form of dementia.

The subject Medical Chemistry includes selected chapters from general, inorganic, physical, organic chemistry. Teaching focuses mainly on bioorganic chemistry, which is a static part and an introduction to the study of medical biochemistry. Knowledge of the structure and function of chemical substances and compounds, as well as their interaction and factors which can influence these interactions is very important for students of General Medicine. Medical Chemistry represent the basis especially for the study of Medical Biochemistry, Pathobiochemistry and Clinical Biochemistry.

Neurocognitive Disorders (NCDs) are acquired conditions characterized by a decline in cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and reasoning. Common examples include dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's disease), delirium, and cognitive impairment due to brain injury or disease. Mental Disorders Due to a General Medical Condition arise as a direct physiological result of a medical illness, such as depression from hypothyroidism or psychosis from a brain tumor.

The laboratory manuals are developed to the foreign students of medicine for practical laboratory exercise and verification of knowledge from medical biochemistry. Exercises are gathered into bigger groups by topics. Exercises are arranged into weeks, in summer term (ST) and winter term (WT), like it is in Syllabus of Lectures and practical exercises (ST, WT). Students can apply their manual skill in performing of the experiments, and also train their ability in evaluation of results.

First published: Tomečková V., Kron I., Mareková M.: Practical exercises from biochemistry, Univerzita Pavla Jozefa Šafárika v Košiciach, Košice 2011, ISBN 978-80-7097-874-0.

The presentation provides an overview of epileptic seizures, their types, underlying mechanisms, and the ILAE 2017 classification. It highlights the differences between focal and generalized seizures, as well as the importance of consciousness impairment in diagnosis and treatment decisions. It also outlines epilepsy syndromes in childhood, emphasizing conditions such as West syndrome, childhood absence epilepsy, and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.

The laboratory manuals are developed to the foreign students of medicine for practical laboratory exercise and verification of knowledge from medical biochemistry. Exercises are arranged into weeks in winter term (WT) and summer term (ST), like it is in Syllabus of Lectures and practical exercises (WT, ST). Students can apply their manual skill in performing of the experiments, and also train their ability in evaluation of results and making of diagnoses.

Revised and supplemented first published version “Practical exercises from biochemistry”. Authors: Tomečková V., Kron I., Mareková M., Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Košice 2011, ISBN 978-80-7097-874-0.

This presentation focuses on types of suicidal behavior, namely ational suicide (balance suicide), extended suicide, group (mass) suicide, self-mutilation (self-harm, self-injury), parasuicide. Presentation describes risk factors of suicidal behavior, namely gender (man), Age, Depression, Previous suicidal attempts, Ethanol abuse, Rational thinking loss, Social support lacking, Organized plan, No hobbies, Sickness (depression, severe anxiety, severe anhaedonia, panic attacks, hopelessness, command hallucinations, impulsivity, aggression, akathisia).

The presentations included here represent a series of lectures for students of Dental Medicine in the first year of study. Individual lectures correlate with recent curriculum of the course and have to be used especially as auxiliary education material specifying basic structures of all presented topics.

The lecture focuses on a neurological perspective of clinically significant diseases affecting the central or peripheral nervous system. Prion diseases are rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders of the CNS caused by the pathological conformation of prion proteins. The most common is Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. AIDP (acute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy) is the most common form of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS).

Practical exercises from Chemistry of Dental Materials is a set of experimental exercises designed for a better understanding of the subject. Practical experimental tasks enable students to become familiar with the basic chemical calculation and with chemical properties of materials commonly used in dentistry. They contribute to a better understanding of the properties of e.g., hydroxyapatite, metal corrosion and other properties of elements contained in dental materials.

The lecture for 4th-year general medicine students discusses vertebrogenic diseases of discopathy and degenerative, traumatic, as well as non-traumatic (inflammatory) spondylopathy etiology, leading to damage of structures such as the spinal cord and spinal nerves. It addresses the most common vertebrogenic pain syndromes.