Designing artificial senses: steps from physiology to clinical implementation

The goal of this review is to highlight the multiple challenges involved in the development of sensory neuroprostheses, the current state of the technology, and to briefly discuss future clinical and research prospects.

Extracellular matrix: a new player in memory maintenance and psychiatric disorders

Significant strides have been made in developing and refining psychotherapeutic treatments. However, there is significant room to improve them, and they may benefit from innovations such as extracellular matrix modification.

Use of day and night urinary iodine excretion to estimate the prevalence of inadequate iodine intakes via the estimated average requirement cut-point method

Segregating 24-hour urine into day and night collections is sufficient to determine the prevalence of iodine inadequacy in the population.

Safety and efficacy of outpatient endovenous laser ablation in patients 75 years and older: a propensity score-matched analysis

Endovenous laser ablation of the great and small saphenous veins has been introduced as minimally invasive technique for treatment of saphenous vein incompetence.

Neurodevelopmental outcome at early school age in a Swiss national cohort of very preterm children

Infants born very preterm are at higher risk of long-term neurodevelopmental problems than children born at term. To date, a Swiss national report on outcomes for infants after 2 years of age is lacking.