V. Spät-Infektion nach Elliott-Trepanation

Differential diagnosis: Trepanation.

Trepanation is the scraping, cutting, or drilling of an opening (or openings) into the neurocranium. World surveys reveal that a number of ancient cultures experimented with cranial surgery, and that in some areas these practices continued into modern times. Archaeological discoveries of possible trepanations continue to be made, often from geographic areas or time periods from which the practi...

Evolving story: trepanation and self-trepanation to enhance brain function.

Trepanation has been performed by people interested in enhancing mental power and well-being since the early 1960s. The pioneers and main proponents of the procedure are described here. The phenomenon appeared in Europe after a Dutch former medical student published a psychoactive drug-friendly scroll suggesting trepanation as a form of permanently increasing cerebral blood volume and function....

Christopher Elliott

Elliott Ross

Elliott Ross grew up in Stockton, California. He earned a B.Sc. degree at the University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. with Jeff Schatz at Cornell. He did postdoctoral research with Al Gilman at the University of Virginia and remained on the faculty there for three years. He then moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where he is a member of the Graduate Pr...

Recasting the Elliott Conjecture

Let A be a simple, unital, finite, and exact C-algebra which absorbs the Jiang-Su algebra Z tensorially. We prove that the Cuntz semigroup of A admits a complete order embedding into an ordered semigroup which is obtained from the Elliott invariant in a functorial manner. We conjecture that this embedding is an isomorphism, and prove the conjecture in several cases. In these same cases — Z-stab...