Editorial: Global and local: making the connections

Chapter 1 MAKING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

Global Health Nursing: Making Connections by Embracing the Other.

Editorial: The cardiovascular disease epidemic: global, regional, local.

This statement by the director for the surveillance of noncommunicable diseases at the World Health Organization (WHO) forcefully summarizes critical issues related to cardiovascular disease (CVD) in developing countries: the upsurge of the CVD epidemic and the need for an urgent response to prevent an impending additional burden that can hardly be afforded by low and middle-income countries al...

Making connections

Kenney and Frankland. eLife 2014;3:e05504. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05504 1 of 3 Autism spectrum disorders—such as Asperger syndrome and childhood autism—have long been known to have a significant genetic component (Ronald and Hoekstra, 2011). However, the biological basis of these disorders has remained largely elusive. Hundreds of genes have been linked to autism spectrum disorders (or ASDs), but m...

Making connections in the brain

Simultaneous measurements of neuronal activity and fMRI signals in the rat brain have shed new light on the origins of resting-state fMRI connectivity networks.