Abstract ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) is a safe treatment of the most severe neuropsychiatric diseases. However, sometimes complecated by transient cognitive impairment (TCI). The importance individual current parameters (seizure threshold, seizure duration, frequency, amplitude, duration stimulation, and pulse width) has been taken into account. time to reorientation (or recovery, TTR) very...

Empirical Similitude Method (ESM) is a technique developed to enhance the applicability of similarity methods to incorporate more realistic experimental data and scaling effects. Much of the development has been motivated by the premise of forging a relationship between experiential information and physical systems that have inherent non – linear variables and factors affecting their response. ...

The relationship between time in dreams and real time has intrigued scientists for centuries. The question if actions in dreams take the same time as in wakefulness can be tested by using lucid dreams where the dreamer is able to mark time intervals with prearranged eye movements that can be objectively identified in EOG recordings. Previous research showed an equivalence of time for counting i...

A smart grid represents a straightforward improvement of a power grid, which effectively hands over electricity from suppliers to clients. It generally uses a two-way digital communication with an eye on managing the devices at client households. They are also competent to conserve energy, scale down overhead costs and to enhance consistency and lucidity. It is home to smart meters, which pave ...

Dreaming and psychosis share important features, such as intrinsic sense perceptions independent of external stimulation, and a general lack of criticism that is associated with reduced frontal cerebral activity. Awareness of dreaming while a dream is happening defines lucid dreaming (LD), a state in which the prefrontal cortex is more active than during regular dreaming. For this reason, LD ha...

Students of the history of medicine long complained that there was no single volume available that expounded to a general audience the results of the massive changes that have taken place within the subject over the last thirty years. Now, English readers have a choice between three such histories of medicine, and a fourth, written by Roy Porter alone, will appear shortly. Of those in print, th...

The new edition of Mackie and McCartney's "Practical Handbook of Bacteriology" shouli be a very useful volume for the student of bacteriology and the laboratory worker. It is divided into three sections, the first and third being devoted to immunology and general bacteriology respectively. The more important phenomena of immunity and details of the more commonly occurring bacteria are set out w...

I n a letter published in Computer's December 2005 issue, Michael Hobbs took me to task for seeming " to prefer structure and organized taxonomies " (Letters, p. 5). He noted that I advocate " that we need more precise, prescriptive definitions for our technical terms. " By contrast, Hobbs described himself as " more of a laissez–faire kind of guy— let a thousand flowers bloom, and so forth. " ...

I felt the world narrow as I looked at her, a frail woman tonight thin and grey, lent animus by memory and desperation and loneliness. She gestured weakly as I came to her and said something, muffled, under the thick, coiled tubing which snaked to the mask bound about her face. I took the straps off, and at this early morning hour she straightened her hair feebly, gazing in the darkness as the ...