Recent discovery by Perutz et al. (2002) of the physical structure of the amyloid that accumulates in neurons in certain neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease or Huntington’s disease, suggests novel mechanism of consciousness impairment, different from the neuronal loss, which is the end stage of the pathogenic process. Amyloid is shown to be water-filled nanotubes made of polymer...

Recent discovery by Perutz et al. of the physical structure of the amyloid that accumulates in neurons in certain neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease or Huntington’s disease, suggests novel mechanism of consciousness impairment, different from the neuronal loss, which is the end stage of the pathogenic process. Amyloid is shown to be water-filled nanotubes made of polymerized pa...

Two patients in deep hepatic coma due to fulminant viral hepatitis were treated by extracorporeal baboon liver perfusion after failing to respond to medical treatment and three consecutive exchange transfusions. Both patients recovered full consciousness after one liver perfusion, made a complete recovery, and were leading normal lives seven and eight months after treatment. Perfusions were mai...

We report on a patient, LM, with a Korsakoff's syndrome who showed the unusual tendency to consistently provide a confabulatory answer to episodic memory questions for which the predicted and most frequently observed response in normal subjects and in confabulators is "I don't know". LM's pattern of confabulation, which we refer to as confabulatory hypermnesia, cannot be traced back to any more...

The relationship between attention and consciousness is a close one, leading many scholars to conflate the two. However, recent research has slowly corroded a belief that selective attention and consciousness are so tightly entangled that they cannot be individually examined. We distinguish between exogenous, saliency-driven, task-independent attention and top-down, endogenous and voluntary att...

background: the pelger-huet anomaly dominantly is a rare and benign inherited defect of terminal neutrophil differentiation. although neutrophil migration may be minimally impaired, granulocytes function is otherwise normal association abnormalities such as ocular, musculoskeletal are reported very rare. case: an eight year-old boy with good consciousness but severe muscular atrophia and diffic...

Communication through visual contents has become the new normal, and images photographs are becoming primary means of communication. People use Instagram not only for communication but also identity seeking self-expression. The casual sharing digital photos on social networking sites a part daily life, there is phenomenon: people travel to take pictures post Instagram. In this circumstance, it ...

CULTURAL ISSUES were included, although in a limited fashion, in the diagnostic manuals ICD-10 (World Health Organization, 1992) and DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994). As Fabrega (1995) points out, the study of the cultural sciences as they pertain to psychiatry offers a necessary corrective to the increasing impersonality and reductionism that has come to characterize the neurobi...

The term 'existentialism* is extremely vague as is the term 'humanism*„ However, existentialism may be generally characterized as a protest against moral or physical deter­ minism in regard to man. And 'humanism', in its most general application may mean any system centered on the concepts of dignity and freedom of man. Thus Jean Paul Sartre makes his existentialism a humanism through the funda...