Stroke - Time For Greater Efforts And Enthusiasm

Factors Influence the Choice for Rehabilitation and Rehabilitation Efforts

As a common belief among rehabilitation specialists, the purpose of rehabilitation has been restoring some of a person's physical and mental capabilities that have been lost as a result of disease, illness, or injury and to help achieve the highest possible level of function, independence, and quality of life. Goals of rehabilitation for different populations differ. Older adults usually focus ...

Tempered enthusiasm for fecal transplantation?

TO THE EDITOR—We read the case report by Solari et al [1] with great interest because the authors presented a fatal case of relapsing Clostridium difficile infection treated with fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) using a gastrojejunostomy tube. This tube was placed through an already existing gastric feeding tube, and the patient died 4 days later due to septic shock; Pseudomonas aeruginos...

Enthusiasm: it's catching.

Alexander Grothendieck: Enthusiasm and Creativity

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin on 28 March 1928. His father, Sascha Shapiro, an anarchist originally from Russia, took an active part in the revolutionary movements first in Russia, and then in Germany, during the 1920s, where he met Hanka Grothendieck, Alexander’s mother. After the Nazis came to power in Germany it was too dangerous for a Jewish revolutionary to stay there, and the ...

Importance of mental capacity: time for greater attention and action.

646 1Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Tan Tock Seng Campus, 2Department of Psychological Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, 3Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore Correspondence: Dr Peng Soon Ng, Associate Consultant, Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, 11 Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore 308433. [email protected] INTRODUCTION The dramatic...