the first issue of the archives of anesthesiology and critical care (aacc) appears on the website and reaches your hands after hard endeavors and labor of all concerned. it is a matter of immense pleasure that we could launch the first aacc after a long spell of almost eighty years ever since the first university of medicine came into being in the country. it took us some time to select a title...

clearly assigned to one of the three main social classes by their clothing, it was both a parade of the old world order and the signal for the most radical change in history. The third estate (i.e. everybody who didn't belong to the nobility or clergy) had fought for and obtained 600 places in the assembly, but, as the privileged classes insisted on block votes by estates, equality in the head ...

In recent years, significant efforts have been made toward elucidating the potential of the human brain. Spanning fields as disparate as psychology, biomedicine, computer science, mathematics, electrical engineering, and chemistry, research venturing into the growing domains of cognitive neuroscience and brain research has become fundamentally interdisciplinary. Among the most interesting and c...