Chronic chikungunya, still to be fully understood

Kwashiorkor is still not fully understood.

The work chosen as this month’s public health classic and reproduced on the following pages is one of the most widely cited papers on childhood malnutrition: in 1935, Cicely D. Williams introduced the West African name kwashiorkor into the scientific literature of nutritional diseases (1). Williams identified the condition as being associated with the social situation of the affected child in t...

Can chronic muscular pain be understood?1.

Chronic muscular pain is often regarded as incomprehensible or indefinable when the doctor "can't find anything" on examination. However, the physiotherapist often detects physical signs in these patients: changes in posture, holding breath, tense and hard musculature, and poor balance. The findings are dependent on what is being sought. The view of the body as ambiguous, as something a person ...

Premenstrual asthma: still poorly understood.

Infants communicate in order to be understood.

Infants intentionally communicate with others from before their 1st birthday. But there is some question about how they understand the communicative process. Do they understand that for their request to work the recipient must both understand the request and be cooperatively disposed to fulfill it? On the basis of the study by Shwe and Markman (1997), we developed a new paradigm that tested whe...

Can delusions be understood linguistically?

Delusions are widely believed to reflect disturbed cognitive function, but the nature of this remains elusive. The "un-Cartesian" cognitive-linguistic hypothesis maintains (a) that there is no thought separate from language, that is, there is no distinct mental space removed from language where "thinking" takes place; and (b) that a somewhat broadened concept of grammar is responsible for besto...