This article and the subsequent one suggest that the currently accepted view of a simplistic (direct) relationship between encephalitis lethargica (EL) and postencephalitic Parkinsonism (PEP) is based on a incomplete evaluation of the epidemic period literature. In this article we provide a detailed analysis of the literature from the period that demonstrates that Parkinsonism was not initially...

Crisis intervention is a practice-oriented set of procedures designed to offer someone experiencing incapacitating stress emotional first-aid. Concepts and ideas found in the sociological tradition are quite applicable to crisis intervention practice. What has been offered are alternatives to the traditional psychological and psychiatric positions. There are similar characteristics between cris...

Case presentation: G.D.V.S, a male neonate, was admitted into the neonatal intensive care unit due to respiratory insufficiency. On his sixth day of life, patient presented with series tonic movements and spasm in upper inferior limbs, followed by an approximate five-minute duration, apnea central cyanosis. He had term complication-free pregnancy. admission, could be noted global hypotonia, dif...

The article provides a description of a solution-focused approach to crisis intervention with adolescents. A description of common developmental and environmental factors that may result in crises for adolescents is presented, followed by an overview of solution-focused therapy. Similarities between solution-focused therapy and strength’s-based crisis intervention and intervention with adolesce...

although capital inflows affect positively economies in long-run, it is possible to generate somehow destructive effects if there is no any control on financial markets. this study tries to explore main determinants of large capital inflows episodes to emerging markets. it is also investigated whether the large capital inflows episodes lead to financial crises in forms of sudden stop phenomenon...

a brief study on the history of 20th century reveals that capitalist system has been facing to political, military and economic crisis including world wars i and ii, economic crisis of 1929 and 1973, economic crisis of southeast of asia in 90s and the current economic crisis. while theories of international political economy have in common with the occurrence of the crisis itself, they are diff...

or 20 years the so-called ‘‘sperm crisis’’ caused unrest among the public as well as the scientific community. Studies precipitated by this virtual crisis have refuted its existence, but have also illuminated hitherto neglected aspects of male reproductive function and indicated a need for prospective, long-term monitoring systems. Since 1992, the so-called ‘sperm crisis’ has lingered in the sc...

Part I brings together material suggesting that the current financial “crisis” may well have been engineered to strengthen the hand of a relatively small group of people who use international financial institutions to manage the planet more generally. It is concluded that, behind the financial crisis lies a public management crisis. Part II discusses the interlinked crises in our habitat. It se...

A friend told me recently that he is suffering from crisis fatigue. Open an issue of just about any medical journal , he said, and you will find at least one article warning of an impending critical shortage of professionals. This issue of JOGC is no exception; on page 598, the Maternal Fetal Medicine Committee of the SOGC draws our attention—quite correctly—to the looming MFM shortage in this ...

an the managers have experienced one kind of crisis or another in their organizations, and hence are willing to group and empower themselves in challenging them. this article while classifying the organizations in two categories as crisis accepting and crisis challenging, suggestion for making the organization as crisis challenging have been given. the process of crisis creation, three perspect...