Neurology Semmelweis

The department has contributed to the validation of tools such as the ID-migraine questionnaire in Hungary. 2. Innovative Research and Neurosciences Education

When LPS reaches the brain, it activates microglia (the brain’s immune cells). Chronic microglial activation is now understood to be a primary driver of Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). neurology semmelweis

Semmelweis’s contemporary, Alois Alzheimer, actually discovered the plaques and tangles in a patient named Auguste Deter. But what if Auguste Deter had neurosyphilis? Or a chronic viral infection? We will never know because they did not look. The department has contributed to the validation of

Ignaz Semmelweis (born July 1, 1818, Buda, Hungary, Austrian Empire [now Budapest, Hungary]—died August 13, 1865, Vienna, Austria) Britannica multiple sclerosis (MS)

Semmelweis University Balassa utca 6, H-1083 Budapest, Hungary