OBJECTIVE To describe the current situation of mental health care in Italy and implementation of mental health reform legislation. METHOD The current mental health care system and studies of the implementation of psychiatric reform are described. RESULTS The 1978 reform law inaugurated fundamental changes in the care system (prohibiting admissions to state mental hospitals, stipulating comm...

This paper addresses the derivation of new second-kind Fredholm combined field integral equations for the Krylov iterative solution of acoustic scattering problems. These integral equations need the introduction of suitable tangential square-root operators to regularize the formulations. Existence and uniqueness occur for these formulations. They can be interpreted as generalizations of the wel...

The concept of issuance revolution is synonymous with the expansion of revolution that it was considered by Imam at at beginning of the revolution. Before the revolution western countries's effort and program involved in the dried roots of Islam in different countries and reduced the concepts and doctorins of it. Because of this the most important influence of Islamic revolution was. Series of ...

The concept of issuance of revolution is synonymous with the expansion of revolution that Imam considered it at beginning of the revolution. Before the revolution, western countries’ effort and program involved in the dried roots of Islam in different countries and reduced the concepts and doctorins of it. For this reason, this was the most important influence of Islamic revolution was. Series ...

Institute of Medical Genetics, Charité University Hospital, Humboldt University, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany, EBI-Hinxton, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, 14195 Berlin, Germany and Gene Mapping Center and Department of Molecular Genetics, Max Delbrück Center, Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13092 Berlin-Buch, G...

A record of fifty-three patients admitted to the Infectious Diseases Department of the Royal Free Hospital between April 1955 and September 1957 suffering from 'epidemic neuromyasthenia' establishes the fact that the condition was endemic in the general population before, during and after the outbreak among the staff of the hospital. A further outbreak occurred in North Finchley between 1964 an...

SUMMARY With the development of coronary care units in the 1960s, attitudes toward sudden cardiac death (SCD) began to change as physicians learned that cardiac arrest was reversible. The problem of SCD has two aspects an acute, precipitating factor and a chronic predisposition to electrical instability of the myocardium. Resolution of the problem requires identification and protection of the p...