Two lives

Living two lives

When I arrived at the Chalfont Centre in September 1969 I was frightened by the place. I did not understand what epilepsy was or why I needed to be there. I was told nothing about it at all. I had been diagnosed with the condition at the age of 14 before being sent to Chalfont. All I knewwas the name of what it was that I had: ‘epilepsy’. I was also scared because I thought I would be shouted a...

ESICM LIVES 2016: part two

award winning session A460Pre-hospital emergency anaesthesia in awake hypotensive traumapatients: life saving or detrimental?K. Crewdson, M. Rehn, A. Weaver, K. Brohi, D. Lockey London's Air Ambulance, Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, London, UKCorrespondence: K. Crewdson London's Air Ambulance, Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine, London, UKIntensive Care Medicine Experimental ...

Reconstructing lives--a tale of two soldiers.

n engl j med 355;25 www.nejm.org december 21, 2006 2609 knowing they’re out there — and even more, he savors the silence. Pepper, who was blinded by a bomb in Iraq in 2004, completed a rehabilitation program for blind veterans last year at the Edward Hines, Jr., Veterans Affairs Hospital in Illinois, learning to find his way using a cane and a personal global positioning system (GPS) device. Wi...

Consolidation and Reconsolidation: Two Lives of Memories?

Most studies on memory consolidation consider the new information as if it were imposed on a tabula rasa, but considerable evidence indicates that new memories must be interleaved within a large network of relevant pre-existing knowledge. Early studies on reconsolidation highlighted that a newly consolidated memory could be erased after reactivation, but new evidence has shown that an effective...

Two themes in thyroid cancer: artful diagnosis and shortened lives.