ArtiFacts: Gerhard Küntscher’s Marrow Nail

Speaker: Gerhard Grunder, Germany

Depression after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is common (up to 40%) and increases risk of cardiac morbidity and mortality in the first year by more than two fold. However, current scarcity of data on etiopathogenesis of post-CABG depression hampers development of prevention or treatment strategies of post-CABG depression. “Vascular Depression” hypothesis posits that cerebrovascul...

and Gerhard Nygaard

In dealing with a large-scale system, one usually does not have adequate knowledge of the plant parameters and interactions among subsystems. The decentralized adaptive technique, designed independently for local subsystems and using locally available signals for feedback propose, is an appropriate strategy to be employed. In the context of decentralized adaptive control, a number of results ha...

Gerhard Ertl - Nobel Lecture

Lumbar Puncture Artifacts: Bone Marrow Components, Cartilage Cells, etc

If the patient’s spine is anatomically abnormal or is injured, or if the patient’s posture during the lumbar puncture is insufficiently relaxed, there is a greater likelihood that the lumbar puncture needle will strike against bone and that bone marrow components will be aspirated together with the CSF. Other cell types and tissues that may appear in the CSF as an artifact of lumbar puncture ar...

Speaker 4: Gerhard Gründer, Germany

s | 27 nicotinic and muscarinic receptors have been shown in animal models to contribute to restoring cognitive function in various rodent models of CIAS while excessive D2 receptor blockade has a negative influence on cognition. Data from recent GWAS studies will be presented which demonstrate that the efficacy of atypical APDs to improve psychopathology in schizophrenia is mediated by gene pr...