Many scientific authors--among them famous names such as Henri Gastaut or Sigmund Freud--dealt with the question from what kind of epilepsy Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1881) might had suffered. Because of the tight interplay between Dostoevsky's literary work and his own disease we throw light on the author's epilepsy against the background of his epileptic fictional characters. Moreo...

Axel Müller1, Thomas M. Helms2, Hans-Jürgen Wildau3, Jörg Otto Schwab4 and Christian Zugck5 1Klinik für Innere Medizin I der Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH Bürgerstr. 2, D-09113 Chemnitz, 2Deutsche Stiftung für chronisch Kranke, Alexanderstraße 26, D-90762 Fürth, 3BIOTRONIK SE Co,Woermannkehre 1, D-12359 Berlin, 4Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, ...

In 1895, a neuropathologist at the University of Vienna observed that “a large number of cases of infantile cerebral palsy is caused by the same factors that bring about the majority of cases of cerebral paralysis of adults: by tearing, embolism, and thrombosis of cerebral vessels.” While Sigmund Freud would go on to become better known for other endeavors, his observation that children can hav...

Authors/writing members: Joost Daemen1, Maarten L. Simoons1, William Wijns2, Adrian Bagust3, Gert Bos4, James M. Bowen5, Eugene Braunwald6, Edoardo Camenzind7, Bernard Chevalier8, Carlo DiMario9, Jean Fajadet10, Anselm Gitt11, Giulio Guagliumi12, Hans L. Hillege13, Stefan James14, Peter Jüni15, Adnan Kastrati16, Sabine Kloth17, Steen D. Kristensen18, Mitchell Krucoff19, Victor Legrand20, Matthi...

Detection of Antibodies against Double-Stranded DNA in Serum for the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Jan-Christian Wasmuth, Barbara Grün, Birgit Terjung, Angela Homrighausen, and Ulrich Spengler (Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; * address correspondence to this author at: University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine I, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse...

Dt Figure 1 Combined IVIM and DTI for simultaneous assessment of diffusion and flow anisotropy of the kidney Mike Notohamiprodjo, Hersh Chandarana, Artem Mikheev, Jose Garcia Raya, John Grinstead, Thorsten Feiweier, Henry Rusinek, Vivian S Lee, and Eric E Sigmund Department of Clinical Radiology, University Hospitals Munich, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Center for Biomedical Imaging, NYU Langone M...

From the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, the Department of Neurology and Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, and the Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53127, Bonn, Germany. Present address: Department of ...

Karl Sigmund is professor at the faculty of mathematics of the University of Vienna, and also works at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg. He studied mathematics and worked on dynamical systems before turning to population genetics, theoretical ecology and evolutionary game theory. He wrote a popular book on ‘Games of Life’ (Penguin, 1994) and, jointly with Josef Hofbauer, ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA 3 Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA 4 Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia 5 Division of Adolescent Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Cen...