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The present special issue will lead you to discover the association between cerebrovascular events, cognitive impairment and atrial fibrillation, through update reviews and original articles exploring the pathophysiological mechanisms underpinning…

This book presents a comprehensive overview of traumatic stress. Chapters address such topics as biomarkers in traumatic stress, the role of microglia activation, proliferation, and neuro-inflammation in the genesis of mental disorders and pain, the…

Acute stressful experiences or high levels of chronic stress are risk factors for mental and physical disorders. Insights into the effects of posttraumatic stress disorder and other stress-related disorders experienced by war veterans, refugees, and…

This analytic study surveys the transformations of elderly care policies and practices since the early 1990s, by comparing the trajectories of two extremely different care systems: Italy, a familialistic model with no relevant changes in social…

There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning…

This volume comprises papers prepared for the 8th World Conference on Continuing Professional Development (Bologna, Italy, 18-20 August 2009). Within the broad theme of creating a positive work environment for a multi-generational workforce in…

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on…

In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on…

Rape shatters lives. Its traumatising effects can linger for
many years after the immediate pain and suffering. Rape is a consequence and a cause of gender inequality. It is an injury to
health; a crime; a violation of women’s human rights; and…

Public stock markets are too small. This book is an effort to rescue public stock markets in the EU and the US. There should be more companies with publicly-traded shares and more direct share ownership. Anchored in a broad historical study of the…