David Oliver Editor 2013 In 2010, a group of health and social care professionals, together with representative patient organisations, met to consider the needs of people with progressive neurological disease. The meeting was established by the Department of Health and the National End of Life Care Programme, and over the next year the group produced a report entitled “End […]

Péter Halász • Róbert Bódizs 2013 Peter Halász and Robert Bódizs has taken the lead in studies of non REM sleep regulation. They continues the noble tradition of Giuseppe Moruzzi and Horace Magoun, Dominic Purpura and Mircea Steriade and seeks, as they did, the neurophysiological rules governing the brain in its control of states of consciousness. For a variety […]

Ying Xia ● Guanghong Ding ● Gen-Cheng Wu Editors 2013 Acupuncture has been practiced in China for thousands of years as part of the traditional Chinese medicine and has gradually spread across different regions of the world today. More and more patients worldwide are seeking therapeutic bene fi ts from this ancient modality. An exogenous stimulation, as with acupuncture, […]

A.J. Larner Editor 2013 Although there have been some previous publications examining cognitive screening instruments, and books partially devoted to their examination, texts entirely devoted to this subject are few. For demographic, and hence economic and political, reasons, namely the aging of the human population and the increasing numbers of individuals af fl icted with dementia, it seems […]