Neural synchrony indexes impaired motor slowing after errors and novelty following white matter damage.

In humans, action errors and perceptual novelty elicit activity in a shared frontostriatal brain network, allowing them to adapt their ongoing behavior to such unexpected action outcomes. Healthy and pathologic aging reduces the integrity of white matter pathways that connect individual hubs of such networks and can impair the associated cognitive functions. Here, we investigated whether structural disconnection within this network because of small-vessel disease impairs the neural processes that subserve motor slowing after errors and novelty (post-error slowing, PES; post-novel slowing, PNS).

Prevention and health promotion in undergraduate medical education: Preferences, attitudes and previous knowledge of medical students - a cross-sectional study.

Objective: The interdisciplinary topic "prevention and health promotion" (Q10) was introduced into the medical training in Germany by the new medical licensing regulations in 2004. For the conception of an effective curriculum, it is helpful to know student preferences concerning teaching-formats, attitudes and self-estimated previous knowledge. Little is known concerning student perception of "prevention and health promotion" in Germany.

["Without any practical relevance?": 3 years of student evaluation of an interdisciplinary curriculum for prevention and health promotion in undergraduate medical education].

Background: The topic "prevention and health promotion" (Q10) was introduced into the medical training in Germany by the new medical licensing regulations in 2004. For the conception of an effective curriculum in the context of quality assurance, a continuous evaluation by the target group is necessary. Of importance are particularly the subjective success in learning and its interdependence to invested time, achievement expenditure and perceived relevance of the topics.

Revision surgery in high grade acetabular defects with thermodisinfected allografts.

Aim: Due to new medical knowledge and legal restrictions, it is increasingly difficult to run a traditional allogenic bone bank so that alternative bone substitutes and methods of processing are being sought worldwide.

Method: In a prospective clinical study, the biological efficacy of thermodisinfected and then cryopreserved allogenic bank bone was investigated in 19 acetabular revisions in 18 patients. Simultaneously a newly developed titanium reconstruction ring was used.

[A monitoring program and intervention regimen based on biological exposure tests for ensuring individual health protection of workers exposed to lead].

In Berlin a control and intervention regimen agreed upon by the Central Institute of Industrial Medicine of the GDR (ZAM) and the Industrial Hygiene Inspection of the Municipal Council has been applied in cooperation with the works health service for industrio-medical attendance of lead-exposed employees since 1984. The intervals for the check-ups by biological exposure tests are determined in higher-exposed employees resulting from blood concentration assays in addition to the legal regulations. The intervention regimen provides instructions for measures to the works doctor if the biological exposure tests indicate some high individual risk to health.