Amour Fou at Age 77

Éditorial: Au fou

Personality Stability From Age 14 to Age 77 Years

There is evidence for differential stability in personality trait differences, even over decades. The authors used data from a sample of the Scottish Mental Survey, 1947 to study personality stability from childhood to older age. The 6-Day Sample (N = 1,208) were rated on six personality characteristics by their teachers at around age 14. In 2012, the authors traced as many of these participant...

Maintaining skill across the life span: Magaloff’s entire Chopin at age 77

The study is based on a corpus containing the entire works of Chopin performed by Nikita Magaloff at the age of 77, precisely measured and fully annotated with score information. On this data we test a model of successful aging, including selection, optimisation and compensation hypotheses (SOC). We identify performance errors, compare Magaloff’s Etudes with recordings by 14 other renowned pian...

"Fou rire prodromique" heralding a brainstem stroke.

A patient manifested pathological laughter heralding the onset of brainstem stroke leading to a "locked-in" state. The pathological laughter did not recur. MRI revealed a bilateral ventral pontine infarct. The clinico-anatomical correlations of this rare phenomenon of fou rire prodromique are discussed.

Unicode et typographie : un amour impossible

In this paper we give a new approach to the concepts of glyph and character, applied to the study of the Unicode encoding. After a thorough discussion of these two concepts, we describe the other fundamental ingredients of the encoding: privileged glyphs, character descriptions, combining characters, and properties. In each case we try to show the importance of the given notion and at the same ...