Hypnosis support in anaesthesia is rarely used in German anaesthesia departments - a nationwide survey among leading physicians of anaesthesia departments.

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate whether and to what extent perioperative hypnosis and relaxation techniques are used in German anaesthesia departments, what they are, where any difficulties in their application lie and how great the interest in this type of therapy is. Another research question was to find out whether there are specialist areas in which these methods are used more frequently than in other specialist areas.

Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire in all hospitals with anaesthesia departments in Germany.

Control of feeding by a bottom-up midbrain-subthalamic pathway.

Investigative exploration and foraging leading to food consumption have vital importance, but are not well-understood. Since GABAergic inputs to the lateral and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (l/vlPAG) control such behaviors, we dissected the role of vgat-expressing GABAergic l/vlPAG cells in exploration, foraging and hunting. Here, we show that in mice vgat l/vlPAG cells encode approach to food and consumption of both live prey and non-prey foods.

[Difficult Airway Management (DAM) Algorithms - A narrative synopsis and site assessment].

Centuries ago an "algorithm" was originally inaugurated to depicture a pathway to solve mathematical problems using a decision tree. Nowadays this tool is also well established in clinical medicine. Ever since management errors in difficult airway handling and subsequent litigations remain high referring to ASA closed claims database.

Confirmation of Decreased Rates of Cerebral Protein Synthesis in a Mouse Model of Tuberous Sclerosis Complex.

Tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is an autosomal dominant disorder that results in intellectual disability and, in ∼50% of patients, autism spectrum disorder. The protein products that are altered in TSC (TSC1 and TSC2) form a complex to inhibit the mammalian target of rapamycin [mTOR; mTOR complex 1 (mTORC1)] pathway. This pathway has been shown to affect the process of mRNA translation through its action on ribosomal protein S6 and 4-elongation binding protein 1.