Gyula Demeter

Acknowledgements
First of all I would like to thank my family for their ever lasting support in so many ways and
for their love during these years. Without you all this work would never have been possible.
I am grateful to my supervisor, Dr. Mihály Racsmány who introduced me to the field of
Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Research. He inspired me and constantly guided me to look
behind the data and to try to comprehend the findings in a new theoretical frame.
I owe many thanks to the Nyírı Gyula Hospital Psychiatry Clinic 2 for helping me in
organizing all the experimental work, especially to my research colleagues, Csigó Katalin and
András Harsányi, MD, for their extraordinary effort in putting together the patient sample, for
their valuable comments and professional support.
I am thankful to the patients who participated in the studies and who showed many human
aspects of the “condition” not really described in the psychiatry textbooks thereby inspiring
and teaching me.
I am especially thankful to my young research colleague Attila Keresztes for the discussions,
his motivation and collaborative work.
I would like to also thank Professor Csaba Pléh who with his cognitive psychology classes in
Kolozsvár raised my interest toward the domain of cognitive science and was a model and
motivator also in the following years.
I owe thanks to the Márton Áron College and to the ProProgressio Foundation for the
scholarships granted.
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