Genetics in Epilepsy: Transcultural Perspectives

Transcultural Perspectives on Eating Disorders

I t is commonplace that one man's meat is another man's poison. Since the fact of cultural variability is well known, this paper will not attempt to catalogue the range of eating phenomena that illustrate the diversity of human experience. Rather, we will focus on three seemingly bizarre and to us almost unthinkable phenomena and attempt to illuminate the human function of each. We will conside...

Genetics of Lafora progressive myoclonic epilepsy: current perspectives.

Lafora disease (LD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by loss-of-function mutations in either laforin glycogen phosphatase gene (EPM2A) or malin E3 ubiquitin ligase gene (NHLRC1). LD is associated with gradual accumulation of Lafora bodies (LBs). LBs are aggregates of polyglucosan, a long, linear, poorly branched, hyperphosphorylated, insoluble form of glycogen. Loss-of-function muta...

Genetics in Epilepsy

Historic perspectives from anthropology. Reflections proposed to Transcultural Nursing.

History brings together meanings related to earlier periods, being aware of the past as a panorama to reread the present. Madeleine Leininger presented in 1970 an implicit and respectful message to the Nursing Profession when introducing Nursing and Anthropology. Two Worlds to Blend. Implicitly: Nursing you disregard culture. This article shows the absence of the history of anthropology and of ...

Genetics and epilepsy

The term "epilepsy" describes a heterogeneous group of disorders, most of them caused by interactions between several or even many genes and environmental factors. Much rarer are the genetic epilepsies that are due to single-gene mutations or defined structural chromosomal aberrations, such as microdeletions. The discovery of several of the genes underlying these rare genetic epilepsies has alr...