Absurd black humour as social criticism in contemporary European cinema

This thesis investigates how contemporary European art cinema establishes an absurd worldview to express social criticism that can be read as evidence of – as well as a response to – European socio-political crises. The thesis also explores the political and aesthetic solutions to these crises as offered within a selected film corpus. Thus, the argument is twofold. The first considers a broader relationship between film and reality: how does film as an art form relate to real-world cultural and political developments? The second focal point is a study of ways in which the comic and the absurd are represented on screen as a response to such developments. The thesis ascribes to an Existentialist understanding of the absurd in which, according to Albert Camus’s definition in The Myth of Sisyphus (1955/1991), human beings desperately want the world around them to make sense, but the world remains irrational and silent. Contemporary European cinema tries to make sense of an irrational world by proposing an alternative approach that challenges prevailing neoliberal ways of thinking. The corpus focuses on post-2000 European arthouse films from countries including Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Hungary and Greece. All of the films explore the absurd and the comic as expressions of social anxiety and feature themes of social crisis, grotesque death, and taboo-breaking (disobedience, transgression, mental illness or social dysfunction). These films reflect on death and social taboos through the lens of absurd humour to express anxiety, highlight social injustice and question prevalent values and established institutions. The films can be interpreted as symptoms of crisis, while they also endeavour to shape society by calling attention to these issues

Az ír gyermekvédelem az állam és a civil szféra tükrében

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Delta and theta activity during slow-wave sleep are associated with declarative but not with non-declarative learning in children with sleep-disordered breathing

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Implantálható kardioverter-defibrillátor által sikeresen megszüntetett malignus kamrai ritmuszavar dystrophia myotonicában szenvedő betegben = Successful termination of ventricular arrhythmias with implantable cardioverter defibrillator in a patient with myotonic dystrophy

Összefoglaló. A dystrophia myotonica (DM) multiszisztémás, autoszomális domináns módon öröklődő, többségében felnőttkori izombetegség, melynek incidenciája 1 : 8000. A betegség kapcsán fellépő izomszöveti degeneráció a harántcsíkolt izomszövet átépülése mellett a szívizomszövetet is érinti, ami fontos oki szerepet játszik az érintett betegek csökkent várható élettartamában. A DM-ben szenvedők halálozásának közel egyharmadáért a cardiovascularis okok tehetők felelőssé. Esetriportunkban egy 52 éves, korábban kritikus bradycardia és I. fokú atrioventricularis blokk miatt pacemakerimplantáción átesett, DM-mel diagnosztizált nőbeteg kardiológiai utánkövetését mutatjuk be. A hirtelen szívhalál rizikóstratifikációja céljából elvégzett invazív elektrofiziológiai vizsgálat során kamrafibrilláció lépett fel, így a korábban implantált pacemakerelektródák mellé sokkelektróda került beültetésre, a pacemakerkészüléket implantálható kardioverter-defibrillátorra (ICD) cseréltük. Az 1 éves ICD-kontrollvizsgálat során azt találtuk, hogy a beültetés óta 22, tartós kamrai tachycardiával járó epizód lépett fel, melyek közül a készülék valamennyit sikeresen terminálta. Az eset bemutatásával szeretnénk rámutatni arra, hogy a magas cardiovascularis rizikócsoportba tartozó DM-betegek azonosítása kiemelkedő fontosságú lehet a hirtelen szívhalál megelőzése érdekében. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(46): 1856-1858. Summary. Myotonic dystrophy (DM) is one of the most frequent adulthood diseases of the skeletal muscles, which develops multisystemic features and shows autosomal dominant trait. In DM, tissue degeneration affects not only the skeletal, but the cardiac muscle, too. In one third of the patients, the cause of death is of cardiac origin. We report on our patient's case, who was diagnosed with DM at the age of 52, in whom episodes of critical bradycardia with first-degree atrioventricular block was detected, resulting in a pacemaker implantation. Invasive cardiac electrophysiological study was performed, during which ventricular fibrillation was registered. A shock electrode was added to the previously implanted pacemaker, enabling defibrillation in case of detection of a sustained ventricular arrhythmia. During the 1-year follow-up, 22 episodes of sustained ventricular tachycardia were identified, with the device successfully terminating the malignant arrhythmias. Our case shows that electrophysiological study and the succeeding implantation of an implantable cardiac defibrillator is highly important in identifying and terminating ventricular arrhythmias in high-risk DM patients. Orv Hetil. 2021; 162(46): 1856-1858

Study protocol of the Hungarian Longitudinal Study of Healthy Brain Aging (HuBA)

Neuro­cog­nitive aging and the associated brain diseases impose a major social and economic burden. Therefore, substantial efforts have been put into revealing the lifestyle, the neurobiological and the genetic underpinnings of healthy neurocognitive aging. However, these studies take place almost exclusively in a limited number of highly-developed countries. Thus, it is an important open question to what extent their findings may generalize to neurocognitive aging in other, not yet investigated regions. The purpose of the Hungarian Longitudinal Study of Healthy Brain Aging (HuBA) is to collect multi-modal longitudinal data on healthy neurocognitive aging to address the data gap in this field in Central and Eastern Europe..We adapted the Australian Ima­ging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle (AIBL) study of aging study protocol to local circumstances and collected demographic, lifestyle, men­tal and physical health, medication and medical history related information as well as re­cor­ded a series of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. In addition, participants were al­so offered to participate in the collection of blood samples to assess circulating in­flam­matory biomarkers as well as a sleep study aimed at evaluating the general sleep quality based on multi-day collection of subjective sleep questionnaires and whole-night elec­troencephalographic (EEG) data..Baseline data collection has al­ready been accomplished for more than a hundred participants and data collection in the se­condsession is on the way. The collected data might reveal specific local trends or could also indicate the generalizability of previous findings. Moreover, as the HuBA protocol al­so offers a sleep study designed for tho­rough characterization of participants’ sleep quality and related factors, our extended multi-modal dataset might provide a base for incorporating these measures into healthy and clinical aging research. .Besides its straightforward na­tional benefits in terms of health ex­pen­di­ture, we hope that this Hungarian initiative could provide results valid for the whole Cent­ral and Eastern European region and could also promote aging and Alzheimer’s disease research in these countries.