Figure 1. Precontrast MRI T1 images showing focal signal hypointensity in the left basis pontis, left crus cerebri (cerebral peduncle) and the posterior limb of the internal capsule. The focal hypointense lesions has no or very mild mass effect and they are apparently continuos cephalocaudally. Contralaterally, the pontine basis is showing ? a very small hypointense lesion in the right side. Th...

Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi, Editor, Iranian Journal of Microbiology Prof. Giovanni M. Giammanco (as representative of the colleagues of the Sections of Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Palermo). Prof. Reza Ranjbar (as representative of graduated Iranian fellows and students who were under supervision of Prof. Caterina Mammina). Professor Caterina Mammina, 1957-2016 Volume 8 Num...

Paul Dan Cristea, professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at 'Politehnica' University of Bucharest died on 17 April 2013, following several years of bravely battling a perfidious illness.

Prof. dr hab. med. Aleksy Poniżyński was born on the 14th of June, 1928 in Bukówiec Górny in the province of Wielkopolska. When the second World War came in September 1939, he was about to attend the 5th grade of an elementary school in Bukówiec. During the Nazi occupation, he worked as a farmhand. After the war, he continued his elementary education in Leszno, where he also completed secondary...

In the treatment of psychotic illness, clinicians regularly face the decision whether to prescribe a standard neuroleptic or a new, atypical drug. The relevant criteria for such a choice will vary depending on the clinical situation, and many of the data required for an informed assessment of the relative risk-benefit balance for old and new drugs are not yet available. In his essay. Professor ...

Professor Arie Bastiaan Johan Groeneveld (AB Johan Groeneveld as he styled himself ) died after a long and bravely fought battle with cancer on Sunday 18 September 2016, at the age of 60. He studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) of Amsterdam in the Netherlands and specialized in the field of internal medicine at his home university. He was a research fellow in critical care medicine i...