Background. Priapism is a pathological condition of penile erection that persists beyond, or is unrelated to, sexual stimulation. Impotence and infertility are major problems in male sickle cell disease patients, and priapism has been implicated as a cause of impotence and infertility. The aim of this study is to determine priapism prevalence and assess the knowledge of male homozygous male pat...

The article offers an account of emotional mechanisms (EMs). EMs are claimed to be personal, often unconscious, distinctively patterned, mental processes whereby emotion a given kind is transmuted into different kind. After preliminary considerations about emotions as felt evaluations, the identifies three families mechanisms. These set in motion when (for example, envy, shame or anger) generat...