Viktoria Pytelova, MD

PhD student, physician

v.ogurcakova@gmail.com

Cognitive Brain Research Group

Department of Neurology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Motol University Hospital

Scientific background

Viktória studied at Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, where she obtained her MD degree. She started her residency in 2021 at the Department of Neurology, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Motol University Hospital in Prague. Since 2022 she continues her studies as a doctoral student of Neuroscience at Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University.

Research interests

Cognitive functions in people with epilepsy, social cognition, emotion recognition, empathy, Theory of Mind, testing and screening social cognition abilities in people with epilepsy, therapeutic options for social cognition impairments

Selected publications

Ogurcakova V, Kajsova M, Marusic P, Amlerova J. Social cognition in Idiopathic generalised epilepsies. Behav Brain Res. 2024 May 10;469:115044. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2024.115044.