CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:    Andrea ANTAL

Present address:  Szeged
    Gát u. 5/A. V. 15.
    6723
    Hungary
    Tel: 36-62-484-201

Date of birth:  August 20, 1967

Place of birth:  Jászberény, Hungary

Education:   Ph.D., 1997,
    University Doctor, 1993,
    M.S., 1990,
 
Affiliations (present and former):
    11/1994 to present
    Albert Szent-Györgyi University Medical School      Department of Physiology
    Szeged, Hungary
 
    7/1994 to 10/1994 (reasearch associate)      State University of New York
    Health Science Center at Brooklyn                 Department of Neurology, New York, U.S.A.
 
    7/1993 to 6/1994 (research associate)
    University of Nebraska Medical Center,              Department of Internal Medicine, Division of      Neurology, Omaha, U.S.A.
 
    5/1991 - 8/1992 (research assistant)
    Mount Sinai Medical Center,
    Department of Neurology,
    New York, U.S.A.
 
    9/1990 - 5/1991 and 9/1992 - 6/1993
    József Attila University of Arts and Sciences,      Department of Comparative Physiology, Szeged,      Hungary
 

Major fields of interest: Electrophysiological recordings in primates and  humans (Electroretinogram, Event-Related Potentials);  Clinical vision testing (contrast perimetry, contrast sensitivity) in Parkinson’s disease, in Alzheimer disease, in schizophrenia; Animal models of  neurodegenerative disorders;
Leisure: teaching aerobics
 Publications:

Sz Kéri, Gy Szekeres, A Antal, I Szendi, Z Kovács, Gy Benedek, Z Janka. (1998) Category learning and perceptual categorization in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, in press

Sz Kéri, A Antal, Gy Szekeres, I Szendi, Z Kovács, Gy Benedek, Z Janka. (1998) Extrapyramidalis mellékhatások követése elemi vizuális funkciók vizsgálatával. Orvosi Hetilap, in press

A Peppe, A Antal, M Tagliati, P Stanzione, I Bodis-Wollner. (1998) D1 agonist CY208-243 attenuates the Pattern elektroretinogram to low spatial frequency stimuli in the monkey. Neuroscince Letters, 243:5-8.

Sz Kéri, Gy Szekeres, O Kelemen, A Antal, I Szendi, Z Kovács, Gy Benedek, Z Janka. (1998) Abstraction is impaired at the perceptual level in schizophrenic patients, Neuroscience Letters, 243:93-96.

A Antal, E Alexander, C Safarik, I Bodis-Wollner. (1998) Analysis of simultaneously recorded primary and cognitive visual evoked potentials. Clinical Neuroscience, Ideggyógyászati Szemle, 51:5-11.

A Antal, Sz Kéri, I Bodis-Wollner (1997) Dopamine D2 receptor blockade alters the primary and cognitive components of visual evoked potentials in the monkey. Neuroscience Letters, 232: 179-181.

A. Antal, I Bodis-Wollner, R Pfeiffer (1996) Simultaneously evoked primary and cognitive evoked potentials distinguish younger and older patients with Parkinson's disease. Journal of  Neural Transmission 103:1053-1067.

I Bodis-Wollner, A Antal (1995) On the functional significance of primate retinal dopamine receptors. In: Bonucelli U and Rabey JM (Eds): Old and new dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neural Transmission, Supplement 45:67-74.

I Bodis-Wollner, A Antal (1995) Clinical aspects II. - Parkinson's Disease. In: Archer SN, Djamgoz MBA and Vallerga S (Eds): Neurobiology and clinical aspects of the outer retina pp:473-492, Chapman & Hall, London.

A Antal, I Bodis-Wollner, M Shalev (1994) Developing animal models for Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. Clinical Neuroscience, 2:158-161.

A Antal, I Kovanecz, I Bodis-Wollner (1994) Visual discrimination and P300 are affected in parallel by cholinergic agents in the behaving monkey. Physiology and Behavior 56:161-166.

A Antal, I Bodis-Wollner (1993) Animal models of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's  disease. A minireview. Neurobiology, 1:101-122.
 
I Bodis-Wollner, M Tagliati, A Peppe, A Antal (1993) Visual and Visual-perceptual disorders in neurodegenerative diseases. Bailliere's Clinical Neurology (Eds. C. Kendall, Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich) London, pp:461-491.

A Antal, I Bodis-Wollner, MF Ghilardi, A Glover, L Mylin, J Toldi (1993) The effect of Levo-Acetyl-Carnitine on the visual cognitive evoked potentials in the behaving monkey. Electroencephalography and clinical Neurophysiology, 86:268-274.

O Feher, A Antal, J Toldi, JR Wolff (1993) Deep sensibility ot the mystacial pad in the rat and its cortical representation. Acta Physiology Hungarica, 81:121-135.

T Husz, F Joo, A Antal, J Toldi (1992) Late consequences of cryogenic brain lesion in rat; an electrophysiological study. NeuroReport, 3:51-54.

J Toldi, O Feher, F Joo, A Antal, JR Wolff (1990) Sodium bromide treatment influences the plasticity of somatosensory responses in the rat cortex as induced by enucleation. Neuroscience 37(3): 675-683.

A Antal, J Toldi (1989) Cortical potentials evoked by mechanical stimulation of different number of vibrissae of the rat. Acta Biologica Hungarica 40(4):223-226.

Abstracts:

A Antal, Sz Kéri, Gy Szekeres, I Szendi, Z Janka, Gy Benedek. (1997) Visual contrast sensitivity in schizophrenic patients. Neurobiology, 5:102.

I Bodis-Wollner, A Antal, R Pfeiffer (1995) Visuo-cognitive processing in nondemented Parkinsonian patients - an event-related potential study. Neurology, 45(4):A340.

A Antal, I Bodis-Wollner (1995) A clinically applicable method to evaluate visuo-cognitive processing. Neurobiology 3:56.
 
I Bodis-Wollner, A Antal, I Kovanecz (1993) Low doses of scopolamine and acetyl-levo-carnitine dissociate "primary" from cognitive visual processing in the trained monkey. Investigation of Ophthalmology in Visual Science, Supplement 34:1174.