Commentary on Fristrom (1976)

A commentary on hunger in Quranic verses

Hunger has been always regarded as one of the signs in mysticism and morality and all Sufis have known it as one of the bases for their special manner of life. Some have known it to mean eating based on need, some other to mean fasting and some to mean not eating but necessarily. The author, as is understood in the paper, relying on Quran and sunnah, has explained that the meanings are intended...

Commentary Commentary on Ullman et al

Ullman and colleagues should be congratulated for an energetic assault on some of the core issues in neurolinguistics. This work attempts to detect an impact of productivity differences in morphology upon fluency differences in aphasia. This basic goal is well-motivated empirically and should eventually succeed. However, I believe that the links currently being proposed between language and the...

Op-brai120248 1976..1988

This article reviews the treatment of functional neurological symptoms during World War I by Lewis Yealland at the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London. Yealland was among the first doctors in Britain to incorporate electricity in the systematic treatment of shell shock. Our analysis is based on the original case records of his treatment of 196 soldiers with functional mo...

Supergravity before 1976 1

A story on how an attempt to realize W. Heizenberg idea that the neutrino might be a Goldstone particle had led in its development to the discovery of supergravity action.

Special report: schizophrenia 1976.