The care of older adults in PALTC settings is complicated and requires us to address the co-occurring physical, behavioral, social, functional challenges our patients. Twenty years ago, Institute Medicine recommended that team-based was needed minimize fragmentation health delivery improve quality patient (Crossing Quality Chiasm: A New Health System for 21st Century, 2001). Additionally, since...

Nevertheless, quantum mechanics is astonishingly adequate if we want to describe the material world in which we live. It is therefore natural to assume that the way we think has something to do with quantum mechanics. After all, if our worldview faithfully reflects the external world, it ought to reflect also its internal properties at the deepest level! For this reason, it is really interestin...

Infants face the paramount task of learning a language. Here, I review recent literature on two separate topics that suggest they use a combination of both evolutionarily old and new cognitive tools to face this task. Research on the principles that guide how humans and nonhuman animals group sequences of sounds has shown that we share with other species perceptual biases that we apply to lingu...

background and aims. radiography is used to diagnose the demineralization process and carious lesions; however, conventional radiography and direct digital images do not show these lesions when the amount of demineralization is less than 40%. digital subtraction radiography has recently been used to improve the diagnostic quality of these lesions. the purpose of this study was to compare the ca...

There has been plenty of research concerning the representation of voluntary action in the human brain. However, the question of how we represent the voluntary omission of an action has been largely neglected. Therefore this study aimed at investigating the representation of intentionally not doing something by means of event-related potentials (ERPs). Free-choice nonactions elicit similar evok...