Dr. Desimone: We always start with human behavior. Something in human behavior that we want to try to explain is related to attention these days. Often the human behavioral work has been done—we’ve done a little bit ourselves, but there’s a huge field of human behavioral work and attention. Then we look at how human neuroscience studies have informed us. Sometimes there are open questions in wh...

This biographical sketch of R. Merle d’Aubigné corresponds to the historic text, The Classic: Functional Results of Hip Arthroplasty with Acrylic Prosthesis, available at DOI 10.1007/s11999-008-0572-1. Robert Merle d’Aubigné was born in 1900 in Neuilly, from a Huguenot family [9]. He had a classical education at the Lycée Pasteur [5] and at age 17 wanted to enlist in the tank corps, but with tw...

Robert L. (Bob) Comis, M.D., passed away suddenly on May 10, 2017.The oncology community remembers with great affection his many contributions to our field. Dr. Comis was a medical oncologist who made major advances in the treatment of lung cancer, from the time he was the director of clinical research in that field in the extramural program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) until his more...

In order to fully capture the complexity of the behavioural, functioning and cognitive disturbances in Alzheimer Disease (AD) and related disorders information and communication techniques (ICT), could be of interest. This article presents using 3 clinical cases the feasibility results of an automatic video monitoring system aiming to assess subjects involved in a clinical scenario. Method and ...

Despite their cultural differences, physics and biology are destined to interact with each other more in the future. The reason is that modern physics is fundamentally about codification of emergent law, and life is the greatest of all emergent phenomena.

Robert Killick-Kendrick est décédé le 22 octobre 2011 à Sumène, dans ce Pays cévenol où il avait choisi de se retirer après une longue vie de chercheur, initiée à l’âge de 17 ans au Département de biochimie du Ministère britannique de l’agriculture. Huit années au Nigeria, passées à étudier les trypanosomoses humaines et animales, devaient constituer le prologue d’une carrière consacrée à une p...

Robert Turner (1938–1999) was a remarkable man. Although he is perhaps best known for the groundbreaking UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS), the breadth and depth of his contributions to diabetes research are remarkable. It is a privilege for us, just a few of his many close friends and colleagues, to be able to review his contributions as a scientist and to remember him as a unique human be...