Baby on Belly

Prune Belly Syndrome.

Prune Belly Syndrome

Prune belly syndrome is a rare congenital disorder of the urinary system, characterized by a triad of abnormalities. The aetiology is not known. Many infants are either stillborn or die within the first few weeks of life from severe lung or kidney problems, or a combination of congenital anomalies.

Prune belly and schizencephaly.

A 45-year-old man without relevant family history presented with prune belly syndrome (PBS). He had a 34year history of right simple partial motor seizures with and without secondary generalization, with a good response to carbamazepine monotherapy; there was no cognitive or social impairment. MRI showed global brain atrophy, ventricular asymmetry, left hemisphere schizencephaly, and bihemisphe...

On Having a Baby

I am a clinical psychologist, trained to watch and observe others, as well as to sit back, as it were, and to observe my own feelings and behaviour. A few weeks ago I had my first baby. I want to set down some thoughts in connection with the care I got at the hospital while the event is still fresh in my mind. Firstly, I should like to pay tribute to the nurses working in the maternity wards, w...

Baby Skyrmions on the Sphere

We study a model for two-dimensional skyrmions on a sphere of radius L. Such model simulates a skyrmion lattice of density W/(2πL), where W is the skyrmion winding number. We show that, to a very good approximation, physical results depend only on the product αL, where α is the strength of potential term. In the range αL ∼ 3 the order parameter vanishes, there is a uniform distribution of the d...