Abstract Scholars and students at early modern European universities wrote hundreds of thousands dissertations. One reason why these sources have long been neglected is that they defy any individual's capacity for close reading. This article adopts a digital distant reading approach to uncover long-term trends in the titles over 20,000 legal dissertations written German during seventeenth centu...

Abstract Study objectives Restless sleep disorder (RSD) is a newly defined in the pediatric age group. Here, we investigated frequency of RSD and characteristics children with NREM (non-rapid eye movements) parasomnias associated RSD. Methods We analyzed all patients for last 1 year, clinical polysomnographic characteristics. Results Twenty-eight age- gender-matched 20 healthy were analyzed. Th...

Attend any meeting of obstetricians, spinal surgeons, neurosurgeons or neonatologists, and talk soon turns to the burgeoning costs of cover for negligence claims. Local medical academic and trade journals are increasingly addressing the issue: the whys, the consequences, and possible solutions. Although there are regular newspaper headlines and articles on litigation costs, seldom if ever does ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Hypersynchronous delta activity (HSD) is usually described as several continuous high-voltage delta waves (> or = 150 microV) in the sleep electroencephalogram of somnambulistic patients. However, studies have yielded varied and contradictory results. The goal of the present study was to evaluate HSD over different electroencephalographic derivations during the non-rapid eye mo...

According to the common view of Jung as the rebellious crown prince of psychoanalysis, his doctrine of the archetypes appears, at worst, a lightheaded fascination with occultism or, at best, a way to overcome the historical and personalistic reductionism of the Freudian doctrine of sexual stages. Against the background of German thought and East-of-the-Rhine psychiatric interests, one is inclin...

French writer René Daumal’s (1908–1944) unfinished novel, Mount Analogue (Le Mont Analogue, 1952), tells of a group mountaineers who set out to find an invisible mountain, the Analogue. All mountains have lost their analogical power, and thus new mountain is needed. serves metaphysical goal linked desire for change consciousness, be achieved through conquering mountain. Even as student, Daumal ...

In terms of medical science and legal responsibility, the sleep disorder category of parasomnias, chiefly REM sleep behavior disorder and somnambulism, pose an enigmatic dilemma. During an episode of parasomnia, individuals are neither awake nor aware, but their actions appear conscious. As these actions move beyond the innocuous, such as eating and blurting out embarrassing information, and en...

The various phenomena cf dreams afford peculiar illustrations of the way in which the mind is connected with its material surroundings; and this observation may be extended, and indeed with more force, to somnambulism generally. I shall not here consider these various phenomena in a physiological manner, but merely do something towards showing how the human mind is affected by man's corporeal f...

There is little knowledge on sleepwalking in ancient times even though it is a very common condition. The aim of this report is to describe the backgrounds of medical knowledge on somnambulism in the 19th century, a key period in the development of neurosciences, by analysing its representation in two famous Italian operas: La Sonnambula by Vincenzo Bellini and Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi. The 19...