CANADIAN GERIATRICS JOURNAL, VOLUME 20, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2017 In our current issue, Hogan et al.(1) present a comprehensive review of the current state of knowledge surrounding frailty in the acute care setting. In a similar acute care setting, Marcel Emond et al.(2) present a retrospective examination of the prevalence of emergency department-induced delirium. McGuire et al.(3) provide us with a...

Dr. Hill received his academic training at the University of London. He was a lecturer of Pharmacology at the University of Bristol School of Medicine from 1974 to 1983 and supervisor of Pharmacology at Downing College, University of Cambridge from 1983 to 1988. He joined the pharmaceutical industry in 1983 as Head of Biology at the Park Davis Research Unit, Cambridge. In 1988, he joined Smith,...

SEIZURE is an international journal providing a forum for the publication of papers on all topics related to epilepsy and seizure disorders. These topics include the basic sciences related to the condition itself, the differential diagnosis, natural history and epidemiology of seizures, and the investigation and practical management of epilepsy (including drug treatment, neurosurgery and non-me...

RESEARCH INTERESTS Stress in all forms has dire consequences for the overall health of individuals. Dr. Alkadhi’s lab focuses on studying the coincidence of chronic psychosocial stress and disorders that affect brain function such as Alzheimer’s disease, hypothyroidism and sleep deprivation. We recently have developed a preclinical rat model of Alzheimer’s disease to test the role of chronic st...

SEIZURE is an international journal providing a forum for the publication of papers on all topics related to epilepsy and seizure disorders. These topics include the basic sciences related to the condition itself, the differential diagnosis, natural history and epidemiology of seizures, and the investigation and practical management of epilepsy (including drug treatment, neurosurgery and non-me...

Professor Dr. Cordian Beyer was born in 1960 in Germany. He is currently the director of the Institute of Neuroanatomy at the UKA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, since 2005. Before, his scientific stations were the University of Ulm, Germany, where he studied Biology and the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Ulm, Germany, where he obtained in 1991 his PhD and in 1996 his ha...

SEIZURE is an international journal providing a forum for the publication of papers on all topics related to epilepsy and seizure disorders. These topics include the basic sciences related to the condition itself, the differential diagnosis, natural history and epidemiology of seizures, and the investigation and practical management of epilepsy (including drug treatment, neurosurgery and non-me...

Stefan D. Anker is Professor of Innovative Clinical Trials (W3) at University Medical Center Göttingen (from September 2014). Dr. Anker studied medicine at Charité Berlin and then started his clinical training in Germany completing it in the UK. He obtained his M.D. from Charité Medical School, Berlin, Germany (1993). He went on to earn a Ph.D. (1998) at the National Heart & Lung Institute of I...

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