Italian osteopathy – An exciting European example

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Melanopsin: an exciting photopigment.

The discovery that mice lacking rods and cones are capable of regulating their circadian rhythms by light provided the conceptual framework for the discovery of an entirely new photoreceptor system within the mammalian eye. We now know that a small subset of retinal ganglion cells are directly photosensitive and utilize an opsin/vitamin A-based photopigment called melanopsin maximally sensitive...

An exciting GABA receptor

NATURE REVIEWS | NEUROSCIENCE VOLUME 4 | DECEMBER2003 | 937 GABA (γ-aminobutyric acid) is a classical inhibitory neurotransmitter, although it has been suggested that it might mediate excitation in some adult neurons. Beg and Jorgensen, writing in Nature Neuroscience, have characterized an unusual GABA receptor that is selective for cations rather than anions, giving it an excitatory effect. Th...

An exciting time of year.

Why do you want to be a family doctor? What is the role of the family physician in the health care system and in people’s lives? These are the kinds of questions that will echo across Canada at the end of January. Medical students from across the country and around the world, as well as university departments of family medicine, are preparing for the interviews that are part of the annual Canad...

European perspectives in psychiatry: antidepressants as an example.

While public mental health issues have traditionally been followed also by supra-national or international organizations like WHO and EC, specific professional aspects of mental health care and disease management were so far regarded as locally specific matters, almost exclusively in the competence of local governments. Health care has been often politically directed from lower than national le...