Bücher der Reihe Biomedical and Health Research

The aim of this work is to provide an inventory of gerontological research, and to develop the outline of a cross-European bio-behavioural and psychosocial survey study of ageing.

"This volume, in my view, should prove to be a landmark publication. Farreras and her colleagues have thrown available light onto what will prove to be a rich field of historical research and historically informed science policy."- Wade E. Pickren, Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesThis volume breaks new ground in assessing the intramural research conducted at the United States National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness (today the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) in the 1950s. The research conducted in these institutes was pioneering and laid the foundation for current neuroscience and behavioural research. Dr. Ingrid Farreras uses the records of the time and also oral histories conducted with retired institute scientists to present the institutional context in which the research was conducted. Topics in her discussion include the history of the United States Public Health Service, the creation of the two institutes at the National Institutes of Health, the organization of their extramural and intramural research programs, and brief summaries of the research that the fifteen laboratories and branches of both institutes conducted during the 1950s. Twelve noted scientists involved in neurological and mental health research then provide their unique, first-hand accounts of their experiences at the NIH. The volume also contains four appendices providing information about the organizational structure of the two institutes, the scientists who worked there, citations of illustrative landmark papers that were published based on their research, and selected primary and secondary resources related to the history of these institutes. The aim of the volume is to foster continuing additional descriptive and analytical research on the history of biomedical sciences in the areas of neurology and mental health in the mid twentieth century.

This text reviews past successes and failures within the field of drug metabolism and attempts to predict new directions that may be taken in the 21st century.

This work examines the ways in which proteolytic enzymes have an esential function in all cells. New aspects are considered, such as: structure of proteases and mechanisms of protein degradation; functions and properties of proteases and inhibitors; signal peptidases; and autophagy.

In this text, clinical features, neuroradiological and electrophysiological data, morphological aspects, genetic data and biochemical results will be provided by actively engaged researchers on Neuronal Ceroid Lipfuscinoses from the Europen Concerted Action.

This work discusses advances in the field of biomedical materials, and includes coverage of studies of cell interactions with biomaterials. The potential applications for the development of new materials, tissue engineering and future medical devices are also discussed.

The European Medicine Agency will regulate the standardization and harmonization in medicine applications for marketing authorization from 1995 on. This text provides an overview of contributions from the academic and pharmaceutical world on the current and proposed strategies for future research.

Healthcare and its financing will not be harmonized within the EU. This work combines studies in economics, law, and the social, political and health sciences in its analysis of health care and its financing in and between member states.

A discussion of whiplash trauma. The work brings together experts working in the areas of epidemiology, biomechanics, experimental and analytical research, physical modelling, and clinical aspects of whiplash injury.

This text examines the state of orthodontic care in Europe and suggests ideas about developing a quality system of orthodontic care for the region. It expounds the philosophy of Total Quality Management.

Focuses on the macro- and micro-rheological behavior of blood and its formed elements, on interactions between the formed elements and blood vessel walls, and on the microvascular aspects of hemodynamics. This book provides a general overview of both basic science and clinical hemorheology and hemodynamics.

This volume provides tools to systematically assess and develop quality-related actions at individual treatment level and practice level. A systematic and comprehensive description of the treatment process is essential in order to provide a basis for establishing a Quality Improvement System.

The objective of the EURO-QUAL programme has been to improve the quality of care for the individual patient. This Quality Improvement System (QIS) for orthodontic care in Europe comprises guidelines for how to implement a QIS and reference material from project teams.