Alexander Mikhailovich Semionov

Josef Brudzinski and Vladimir Mikhailovich Kernig: signs for diagnosing meningitis.

Inflammation of the meninges, or meningitis, is a serious neurological insult that involves the membranes (dura, pia and arachnoid matter) covering the brain and spinal cord. Meningitis may be caused by any of a host of infectious and noninfectious agents including bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, drugs, autoimmune disorders, or malignancy which considerably influences morbidity and mortali...

Did Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky suffer from mesial temporal lobe epilepsy?

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...

Alexander Ogilvy

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As a former student of Professor Ostrowski—one of his last— I am delighted to recall here the life and work of one of the great mathematicians of the 20th century. Needless to say that, in view of Ostrowski’s immense and vastly diverse mathematical legacy, this can be done only in a most summary fashion. Further literature on Ostrowski can be found in some of the references at the end of this a...

Alexander Sturn

Cluster Analysis for Large Scale Gene Expression Studies High throughput gene expression analysis is becoming more and more important in many areas of biomedical research. cDNA microarray technology is one very promising approach for high throughput analysis and provides the opportunity to study gene expression patterns on a genomic scale. Thousands or even tens of thousands of genes can be spo...