Current Topics in Neurology, Psychiatry and Related Disciplines

(Aktuelnosti iz neurologije, psihijatrije i graničnih područja, ISSN 0354-2726),

official journal of the Serbian Association of Neurologists, publishes peer-reviewed, original research and review articles, case reports, and other contributions from (clinical) neurology, psychiatry and related disciplines. Commentaries, book reviews and letters to the editors are always welcome.

Current Topics has been published continuously since 1993, targeted mainly at domestic scientists and clinicians working in the fields of neurology and psychiatry. Current Topics is now aspiring to further improve its quality, attract more authors from the region and worldwide, and get into major medical databases.

Current Topics is an Open Access journal, meaning that our readers have the right to read, download, print, distribute, search or link to the full text of the articles.

Founder, owner and publisher:

Clinical Centre of Vojvodina

Institute of Neurology & Institute of Psychiatry

Hajduk Veljka 1, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia Tel: ++381 64 2954236, 21 4843275; Fax: 526 520;

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The official journal of the Serbian Association of Neurologists by the decision of the chair of the Association of 27 November 2009.

UDC descriptors: Library of the Medical Faculty Novi Sad.

CIP: Library of Matica Srpska Novi Sad

Printed by Buducnost, Novi Sad. Distributed free of charge in a circulation of 300.

Editor-in-Chief

Milorad Žikić, MD, PhD

Assistant Editors

Aleksandar Ješić, MD

Željko Živanović, MD

Lorand Sakalaš, MD

Editorial Council

Aleksandar Berić, MD, PhD (New York, USA)

Vida Demarin, MD, PhD (Zagreb, Croatia)

Matthew E. Fink, MD, PhD (New York, USA)

Dimitrije Jakovljević, MD, PhD (Kerava, Finland)

Aleksandar Janča, MD, PhD (Pert, Australia)

Dušan Kecmanović, MD, PhD (Sydney, Australia)

Aleksandar Knežević, MD, PhD (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Vladimir S. Kostić, MD, PhD (Belgrade, Serbia)

Amos D. Korczyn, MD, MSc (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Slobodan Loga, MD, PhD (Sarajevo, BiH)

Jelena Mihaljev-Martinov, MD, PhD (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Dragan Pavlović, MD, PhD (Belgrade, Serbia)

Ranko Raičević, MD, PhD (Belgrade, Serbia)

Tatjana Rundek, MD, PhD (Miami, USA)

Osman Sinanović, MD, PhD (Tuzla, BiH)

Mirjana Spasić, MD, PhD (Niš, Serbia)

Nadežda Čovičković-Šternić, MD, PhD (Belgrade, Serbia)

Gordana Tončev, MD, PhD (Kragujevac, Serbia)

László Vécsei, MD, PhD (Szeged, Hungary)

Gregor K. Wenning, MD, PhD (Innsbruck, Austria)

Miroslava Živković, MD, PhD (Niš, Serbia)

Associate Editors

Ksenija Božić, MD, PhD

Vojislava Bugarski, PhD

Milan Cvijanović, MD, PhD

Ivana Divjak, MD, PhD

Dragan Mitrović, MD, PhD

Marija Semnic, MD, PhD

Petar Slankamenac, MD, PhD

Branislava Soldatović- Stajić, MD, PhD

Dragana Stefanović, MD, PhD

Zoran Todorovski, BPsy

Nikola Vučković, MD, PhD

Marija Žarkov, MD, PhD

Olga Živanović, MD, PhD

Technical/Language Editor

Bojana Pavkov, BA