Gériatrie 2008

Geriatrics / Gériatrie Why Geriatrics ?

Why geriatric medicine ? Many have asked this question... residents considering specialization; specialists reluctant to acknowledge change in their aging patients; and anxious patients narrowly defining geriatric medicine as end-of-life care. All have wondered how caring for older patients differs from that of younger adults. The difference, in fact, is immense. The transition from a disease-f...

Gériatrie Alzheimer ’ S Dementia : a Brief Review

Dementia is an umbrella term that encompasses symptoms of a chronic progressive cognitive decline usually affecting memory and almost always judgment, decision-making, and relationships with others. Dementia can be divided into cortical and subcortical forms. Alzheimer’s disease is a form of cortical dementia, as is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). In subcortical dementia, structures below the ...

KogWis 2008

Die Fachtagung soll dazu dienen die Kommunikation und Kooperation zwischen den an der Kognitionswissenschaft beteiligten Fachdisziplinen zu fördern und zu unterstützen und bietet deutschsprachigen Kognitionsforschern die beste Gelegenheit, über disziplinäre Grenze hinweg Anregungen auszutauschen und die Zusammenarbeit anzustoßen. Die Tagung 2008 steht unter dem Motto „Von den kognitionswissensc...

Bti 2008

Aamas 2008

AAMAS is the premier scientific conference for research in autonomous agents and multiagent systems. The AAMAS conference series was initiated in 2002 as a merger of three highly respected individual conferences: the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, the International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, and the International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems. ...