The relationship between epilepsy and music is poorly understood. Musicogenic epilepsy, which involves seizures triggered by music, and epilepsy that triggers or involves musical experiences are rare. Anti-seizure medications (ASMs) may affect cognition and possibly the musical sphere. The relationship between epilepsy, ASMs and music perception is insufficiently investigated in the literature. This study describes the clinical characteristics of patients with epilepsy with advanced musical knowledge, and aims to understand the disease's involvement in the musical sphere. A qualitative study was conducted in epileptic patients with musical knowledge, investigating their musical perception before and after a diagnosis of epilepsy and after a change of ASM when this was possible. Questionnaires and recordings of music were used to assess musical perception. Fourteen patients had musical knowledge, and the majority of these (50%) had temporal lobe epilepsy. A total of 92.8% of the patients stated that epilepsy or its medications had affected them in the musical sphere. There was no clear relationship between the lateralisation of the epilepsy and musical involvement. 42.9% were professional musicians, and had to give up their profession. The patients prescribed with more than one ASM had greater musical involvement. Temporal lobe epilepsy appears to have the greatest effect on music perception, and more studies with ASM and music perception are needed to determine its effects.

The article presents the conclusions formulated on the basis of a qualitative analysis of diaries submitted by Polish teachers in response to the competition conducted in the years 2020-2021 by the Institute of Social Economy of the Warsaw School of Economics. The analysis of the diaries made it possible to answer questions about the condition of not only the teachers themselves, but also, and above all, about the emerging picture of the state of the Polish education system. The difficult times and new circumstances of school functioning during the pandemic highlighted the importance and essence of the teacher profession. However, these experiences also revealed the weaknesses of the education system, forcing us to look at the extent to which teachers are able to adequately recognize the situation of their activities, to what extent they have the ability to recognize the essence of “what is good and right”, how their awareness of their socio-professional role is shaped, what importance they attach to their work and what are their abilities to overcome extraordinary difficulties.The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for education that have resulted in profound changes in the way we think about school and its environment and about the work and professional development of teachers.

Abstract Pentecostalism has always struggled to define itself theologically from the beginning. Starting out as a marginal stream within Christianity, early Pentecostals were reluctant to compose statements of faith and were susceptible to a range of new doctrines, a problem that continues to this day. In this article, the author surveys the theological development of Pentecostalism in Australia, giving special attention to a specific Australian-born movement, Christian Revival Crusade, because of its distinctive doctrines of British-Israelism and deliverance of believers from evil spirits. The author concludes with some observations of recent doctrinal developments in Australian Pentecostalism before positing some causes for such changes and drawing some lessons for Pentecostalism as a whole.

The aim of the article is to show, using the example of women and seniors with disabilities, how being "between" various policies/ministries/interest groups increases the risk of being omitted in the process of creating and implementing public policy. In the text, we start from the public policy process and indicate how its individual users can influence policy agendas, and then discuss the challenges of being both a person with a disability and a woman or a senior citizen. We also emphasize the importance of the weaknesses of a given environment and the issue of identity in activist efforts. Finally, we put forward the thesis that a potential solution to the problem of being overlooked may be to strengthen activities aimed at mainstreaming women's and disability issues in public policy.