Nostalgia for the Future

Nostalgia: Past, Present, and Future

Traditionally, nostalgia has been conceptualized as a medical disease and a psychiatric disorder. Instead, we argue that nostalgia is a predominantly positive, self-relevant, and social emotion serving key psychological functions. Nostalgic narratives reflect more positive than negative affect, feature the self as the protagonist, and are embedded in a social context. Nostalgia is triggered by ...

A Future-oriented Theory of Nostalgia.

The annual ASCI meeting: does nostalgia have a future?

For many academic physician-scientists, the yearly Tri-Societies meeting of the ASCI, AAP, and AFCR during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s was an annual rite of spring and the focal point of the academic year. In this brief essay, I set down some miscellaneous recollections of these meetings and some thoughts about why they were of such central importance in the careers of those of my generation.

Spirulina; the food for future

Spirulina is a cyanobacterial photosynthesis that is grown commercially in many tropical and subtropical countries and temperate regions for human and animal nutrition. This commercial product is used as a rich source of protein and vitamins in the pharmaceutical, food and chemical industries due to its valuable nutrients. In the last two decades, the production of microalgae for food has incre...

The Nostalgia Factory

With the exception of some texts directed to patients and families, Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus: Patho-physiology — Diagnosis — Treatment represents the first dedicated on normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), a condition that the authors find important due to its similarities in presentation to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. The authors assert that a full textbook de...