Health sciences

A professional skipper is engaged in 16-20 weeks of uninterrupted work during the season, which requires exceptional psychological and physical effort, especially if we take into account the extremely demanding sleeping conditions in the absence of any life routine.

For the jobs of sailors in the Merchant Navy, there is also no research on physical demands, psychological stress, and the quality of sleep while performing jobs.

The scopes of research include spectrophotometric and spectrofluorimetric methods for the determination of antioxidative potential of different substrates including in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo samples like human blood (plasma, serum), tissues (animal, human) and different herbals. Recent research by this group has been focused on skin models of damages (mechanical, UV, chemical) and on various treatment potential of different substances for skin.

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The main topic of out research is evidence-based medicine research and professionalism in health. Research and publications are primarily on the themes of research integrity, clinical health-care guidelines and research education in medicine.

The effect of diving (SCUBA and breath hold) on cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory function using noninvasive (echocardiography, continuous blood pressure measurements, TCD, MRI, respiratory mechanics, etc) and invasive (MSNA, arterial and central venous catheterization, internal jugular vein catheterization, etc) methods. The clinical interest is related to following diseases: chronic heart failure, COPD, stroke, TIA, tetraplegia, etc. 

The general objectives of this project proposal are to provide a comprehensive model of the pandemic effects by investigating the contribution of  sociodemographic factors and pandemic related stressors to individual differences in the intensity of psychopathological symptoms (depression, anxiety, stress, PTSD, self-destructive behaviours) as well as to the levels of psychosocial adjustment during the pandemic.