Emergence of monopoly-Copper exchange networks during the Late Bronze Age in the western and central Balkans.

In this paper we present the first results of an interdisciplinary research project focused on Late Bronze Age metallurgy in the western and central Balkans. The comprehensive chemical and lead isotope analysis, and a strict consideration of archaeological criteria, has provided a deeper insight into supra regional metal exchange networks between the 14th and 9th century BC in this part of Europe. Particularly interesting and surprising are results regarding the provenance of raw materials for copper production, which have a chemical composition and lead isotope ratios that closely correspond to ore deposits in the southern Alps (North Italy).

Cardiovascular and other risk factors among people who live in slums in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Objectives: Effective planning of health policies requires the availability of accurate data, representing the burden of disease and risks to the diverse components of society. In Argentina, health information comes from the national risk factors survey (NRFS), which characterises the distribution of different risk factors. However, the NRFS has never collected information from residents living in slums, despite slums representing 10% of the population.

Posttraumatic seizures - prevention or not.

Early posttraumatic epilepsies (EPTE) are epileptic attacks that appear in first seven days after brain injury, with incidence of 3-5%. Predictors for development of EPTE are: impressive skull fracture with rupture of dura, intracranial haemorrhage, neurogical deficit (brain contusion), and posttraumatic amnesia longer than 24 hours. It is more common in children than in adolescents and adults.

[Paroxysmal psychological disorders--a diagnostic trap].

Unlabelled: Paroxismatic psychical disorders, as attacks of panic and anxiety, de-realization, de-personalization, false reconescense phenomena and other are, represent the diagnostic problem. The possibility of mistake is significant, and wrong diagnosis has medical and social implications. The aim was to point out the methodology of the work with these patients.

[Efficacy and tolerability of carbamazepine as the initial drug used in the treatment of epilepsy].

Carbamazepine is the one of the most prescribed antiepileptic drugs in treatment of partial and generalized tonic-clonic seizures. Its efficacy in treatment of seizures was discovered incidentally during the trials of neuroleptic drugs. Generally it is well tolerated with relatively rare serious side effects.