[Importance of handoffs for patient safety].

Handoffs are defined as the transfer of mission specific information and care authority from one healthcare professional to another. Handoffs may create gaps that are especially vulnerable to errors and may have an impact on patient safety. Conceptualising handoffs that are safe gains in importance in medicine with the growing clinical complexity, the reduction of working hours, and a great amount of care fragmentation.

Hemispheric lateralization of the corticostriatal glutamatergic system in the rat.

Little is known about hemispheric lateralization of subcortical structures. Here, we show a higher expression of the subunit NR2A of the NMDA receptor mRNA in the striatum and of vGluT1 mRNA in the cingulate cortex, in the left hemisphere compared to the right one. This suggests a lateralization of the glutamatergic cortico-subcortical system, at the level of postsynaptic receptors as well as at the level of corticostriatal projections.