Alchemy, Child of Greek Philosophy.

Ancient greek philosophy and modern psychiatry.

Soul, mind, brain: Greek philosophy and the birth of neuroscience.

The nature of "soul" and the source of "psychic life", the anatomical seat of cognitive, motor and sensory functions, and the origin of neural diseases were broadly debated by ancient Greek scientists since the earliest times. Within the space of few centuries, speculation of philosophers and medical thinkers laid the foundations of modern experimental and clinical neuroscience. This review pro...

A child-oriented philosophy of dental management.

This article presents a child-centered philosophy for managing young dental patients. The goals of this approach are to reduce children’s dental fear to a minimum and to encourage a positive, accepting attitude toward regular dental care. Interventions which focus on the young child’s emotional needs in the dental setting are encouraged. The dentist uses techniques designed to help the child gr...

Aquatic Alchemy

Background: Current statistical methods for sib-pair linkage analysis of complex diseases include linear models, generalized linear models, and novel data mining techniques. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the utility and properties of a novel pattern recognition technique (step-wise discriminant analysis) using the chromosome 10 linkage data from the Framingham Heart Study...

Modern Alchemy

developmental process. Surveying the mathematical analysis of Woodger and the contribution of experimental embryology to formation (Gestaltung), to segregation, to differentiation, to growth, to polarity and symmetry, and finally to regeneration, we are led through a consideration of the historical character of the organism to the system theory. We read, "We must view the germ as a whole, as a ...