Hommage à Maurice Allais

Hommage to reactive psychosis.

When looking back in the history of psychiatry, the concept of reactivity had very variable impact on ethiological considerations. If classification of mental disorders is taken as a proxy, it seems that this impact is presently at the lowest that it has been in the last hundred years. The author gives a short historical overview of concept of reactive psychosis, followed by a description of th...

Allais paradox pdf

Allais , Stability , and Liapunov Theory

To make a discovery is to achieve one of the closest approximations to a property right that the scientific career affords. Professional prestige is often closely associated with these acquisitions. Small wonder, then, that acrimonious disputes about priority and independence in discovery have often marred the normally placid tenor of scientific communication. Even less wonder that many histori...

Gerald Maurice Edelman.

Professor Gerald Maurice Edelman died in La Jolla, California, on May 17, 2014, at the age of 84. His wife, Maxine Morrison Edelman, and three children, Judith, Eric, and David, survive him. We, of course, remember him for his brilliant scientific career. However, I have received many comments from people who, upon hearing of his death, remarked along lines similar to these: “It’s the end of an...

Maurice Ptito, MD, Ph

In this series of studies, we used a monkey model of human hemispherectomy in order to characterize behavioral recovery and anatomical reorganization of the visual system. Monkeys were tested neurobehaviorally on a variety of tests every 6 months for a period of 30 months. Thereafter, the organization of the retinofugal pathways was studied by means of histological techniques. At the behavioral...