[Attitudes towards using eHealth in psychiatry and psychotherapy : A pilot survey at the DGPPN Congress 2014]. / Einstellungen gegenüber eHealth-Angeboten in Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie : Eine Pilotumfrage auf dem DGPPN-Kongress 2014.

The use of modern communication and information technology in the health sector, known as eHealth, has the potential to reduce gaps in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic healthcare. In order to successfully implement eHealth it is important to assess the attitude of all stakeholders. The attitude of the patients towards eHealth has been frequently investigated but there is a lack of research on the side of the professionals. The attitude towards eHealth from the perspective of professionals has only rarely been evaluated in German-speaking countries; therefore, we carried out a survey at the German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics (DGPPN) congress in 2014 that included 282 psychiatrists, neurologists and psychologists in order to explore their attitudes towards eHealth . Furthermore, the professionals were asked in which therapeutic areas, for which age groups and for which clinical pictures they would expect benefits. In general, the participants expressed a positive attitude towards eHealth . They expected benefits for a multitude of therapeutic areas, particularly for adolescents and adults and especially for the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders; however, they felt only minimally informed about eHealth opportunities indicating a high need for educational and training requirements.

[Georg Joachim Rhetikus, between Paracelsus and Copernicus]. / Georg Joachim Rhetikus, zwischen Paracelsus und Copernikus.

At first the author presents the familial background of Rheticus, then his education, his friendships and scientific contacts. Rheticus was professor of university in Wittenberg and Leipzig. Most interesting were his contacts with Paracelsus and Copernicus. Last two decades of life Rheticus spent in Cracow working as a physician and mathematician. He died in Kosice.

[Physician from Constance doctor of medicine Georg Vogelin (1508-1542), an early follower of Copernicus]. / Der Konstanzer arzt dr med. Georg Vogelin (1508-1542), ein fruher Anhanger des Kopernikus.

Georg Vogelin was born in Constance as the son of the town clerk. He studied the artes liberales and medicine at Wittenberg (since 1523) and Montpellier (since 1527). From 1531 onwards he practiced as a medical doctor in Constance. In 1542 Vogelin died of the plague in Constance. Vogelin was very close friends with the medical doctor Achilles Pirmin Gasser (1505-1577) and Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574), a well known pupil of Copernicus. He was amongst the first supporters of the teachings of Copernicus. Gasser, who published the second edition of Rheticus' "Narratio prima" (Basle 1541), dedicated this edition to Georg Vogelin. In this book Vogelin published a poem in Latin. In the poem he described the teachings of Copernicus ("Terraque iam currit, credita stare prius") and recommended the academic community to approve Copernicus' theory.

[Radiographically demonstrable spinal changes in asymptomatic young men]. / Röntgenologisch nachweisbare Wirbelsäulenveränderungen asymptomatischer junger Männer.

PURPOSE: To find reliable data of the incidence of different variations of the spine. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Standardised radiographic examinations of 10,922 young, healthy pilot aspirants of the German air force were made. Radiographic examination included the whole spine in a.p. and lateral projection, the cervical spine in oblique projection and in a subunit of 5781 men the lumbar spine in oblique projection. RESULTS: The following incidences were found: mild habit scoliosis: 80.4%, structural scoliosis: 9%, severe thoracal kyphosis without severe lumbar lordosis: 5.1% and together with severe lumbar lordosis: 30.8%, mild forms of kyphosis of adolescence: 23.3%, severe forms: 2.1% and cuneiform deformation of vertebral body: 4.9%, sacralization: 7.8%, lumbarization: 5.9%, spondylolysis: 6.2%, spondylolisthesis: 4.3% and lumbar chondrosis: 2.1%. Chondrosis of the thoracal and cervical spine, osteochondrosis and coalescent vertebral bodies were found in less than 0.8% each. CONCLUSION: In only 2.6% were there no pathological findings. This shows importance of radiological spine examinations especially for industrial and preventive medicine.