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Stavros J. Baloyannis is a Professor Emeritus of neurology at the Aristotelian University, Thessaloniki, Greece and he was born in Thessaloniki. He graduated from the School of Medicine, Aristotelian University. His training was in neurology at the Aristotelian University and Institute of Neurology, London. He undertook training in neuropathology and electron microscopy at the Institute of Neurology, London, Catholic University of Louvain,

University of Pennsylvania, as well as in acoustic-neuropathology at Harvard University. He is also trained in neuroimmunology from Yale University. His research interests include BBB, mitochondria in AD, synaptogenesis, neurodegeneration, dendritic and synaptic pathology, and the golgi apparatus in dementias. His special interests are neuroethics, neurolinguistics, neurophilosophy, the history of neurosciences, neurology and art. He is a member of 60 scientific societies and an honorable member of the Academy of Hellenic Air Forces. He is President of the Society for the Amelioration of the Quality of Life in Neurological Diseases and President of the Orthodox Association for Medical Mission. He has been a visiting professor at Tufts University, Democritus University, School of Theology, and School of Philosophy. He is the author of 28 textbooks and 725 papers on neurology, neurosciences and three books of poems. He was the Head of the Department of neurology (1992- 2011) and Director of Research Institute for Alzheimer's Disease.

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Coenzyme Q 10 and L-Carnitine Disturbances in Children with Mitochondrial Diseases *by Ekaterina A. Nikolaeva, Ilgar S. Mamedov and Irina V. Zolkina*
