[Do the New German OPS codes map the relevant therapeutic activities in psychiatric clinics?].

Objective: Actual codes for operations and procedures (OPS) in psychiatry and psychosomatics should map cost separating therapeutic activities so far defined in Germany by the normative specifications of the psychiatry staff enactment (PsychPV). OPS codes should also allow re-estimating underlying therapy times.

Method: Therapeutic activities of the PsychPV fulfilling the minimal criteria of the OPS definition were classified as multiples of a therapeutic 25 minute unit.

[Recurrent dysregulation of body temperature during antipsychotic pharmacotherapy].

Objective: This case report presents a rare, potentially life-threatening vegetative disturbance, which can occur during pharmacotherapy of schizophrenia.

Method: A retrospective descriptive transversal and longitudinal section consideration of in-patient treatments of one female was performed.

Results: A 50-years old woman suffering from oligophrenia and disorganized psychosis (ICD-10: F71, F20.

Stimulus-Dependent Assembly Formation of Oscillatory Responses: II. Desynchronization.

Recent theoretical and experimental work suggests a temporal structure of neuronal spike activity as a potential mechanism for solving the binding problem in the brain. In particular, recordings from cat visual cortex demonstrate the possibility that stimulus coherency is coded by synchronization of oscillatory neuronal responses. Coding by synchronized oscillatory activity has to avoid bulk synchronization within entire cortical areas.

Stimulus-Dependent Assembly Formation of Oscillatory Responses: I. Synchronization.

Current concepts in neurobiology of vision assume that local object features are represented by distributed neuronal populations in the brain. Such representations can lead to ambiguities if several distinct objects are simultaneously present in the visual field. Temporal characteristics of the neuronal activity have been proposed as a possible solution to this problem and have been found in various cortical areas.