One of the fundamental problems in neuroscience today is to understand how the activation of large populations of neurons gives rise to the higher order functions of the brain including learning , memory, cognition, perception, action and ultimately conscious awareness. Electrophy-siological recordings in behaving animals over the past forty years have revealed considerable information about wh...

ith the aging population and recognition that treatment of a patient’s pain is a key healthcare objective, more patients are taking pain medications that must be taken consistently to be effective. But at the same time, many of these same medications are subject to abuse. These benefits and dangers drive the need to test for patient compliance. Although urine has historically been the specimen ...

Preeclampsia is a common complication of pregnancy associated with high maternal morbidity and mortality and intrauterine fetal growth restriction. There is extensive evidence that the reduction of uteroplacental blood flow in this syndrome results from the toxic combination of hypoxia, imbalance of angiogenic and antiangiogenic factors, inflammation, and deranged immunity. Women treated for pr...

R esearchers recently gathered at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, to share their accomplishments at the 13th annual ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. 1 This multidisciplinary conference featured advances in sensing technologies and activity-recognition algorithms, novel applications, and results from end-user evaluations. Smartphones continued to provide a versatile research platfo...