Seizing the moment: Zebrafish epilepsy models

Slamdance: seizing a fly model for epilepsy.

BRAIN SEIZURES, AS IN EPILEPSY, are characterized by massively synchronous firing of neurons. Given the extraordinary complexity of the human brain, it is surprising that epilepsy is not a more common complaint. Episodic brain seizures currently affect 1% of the human population, and causes for the syndrome range from hereditary effects to brain injuries and infectious diseases (Berg 2011). To ...

Public health and nursing practice: seizing the receptive moment.

Both nursing and government policy indicate the crucial role that all nurses have in the public health arena and yet it would seem that the role of the nurse in general within public health is open to debate and criticism. The author has a responsibility for the development of public health across the undergraduate curriculum within a university. This paper presents a discussion of some of the ...

Seizing the 9-month moment: addressing behavioral risks in prenatal patients.

OBJECTIVE Our qualitative study explored prenatal care providers' methods for identifying and counseling pregnant women to reduce or stop smoking, alcohol use, illicit drug use, and the risk of domestic violence. METHODS We conducted six focus groups (five with OB/Gyn physicians, one with nurse practitioners and certified nurse midwives), total N=49, using open-ended questions. Investigators ...

Seizing the Digitalization Opportunity

Statins and cardiovascular disease--major therapeutic advances but are we seizing the moment?

acute cardiac events. So patients with coronary disease, and those at even moderate risk of future development of such disease benefit significantly from statin therapy. Now it is also looking as if there is a significant reduction in non-haemorrhagic stroke with long-term statin treatment in patients with coronary disease. Combining the 13 000 patients from CARE and LIPID, there was a 22% redu...