“The Great Turkes Defiance” Revisited

The Great Brain Books, Revisited

In 1999, Cerebrum published a list of books about the brain, guiding regular readers to ―the great books, past and present, that capture the unfolding story of the brain and how brain research is changing our ideas about memory and emotion, life span and language, neurological disorders and psychiatric syndromes.‖ Eleven years later, the need for such a list is even greater—more than 30,000 bra...

Atrial Fibrillation: The Science behind Its Defiance

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent arrhythmia in the world, due both to its tenacious treatment resistance, and to the tremendous number of risk factors that set the stage for the atria to fibrillate. Cardiopulmonary, behavioral, and psychological risk factors generate electrical and structural alterations of the atria that promote reentry and wavebreak. These culminate in fibrillat...

The pathogenesis of syphilis: the Great Mimicker, revisited.

Syphilis is a chronic sexually transmitted infection caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum. Its protean clinical presentations earned it the name of the 'Great Mimicker'. Understanding of disease pathogenesis and how host-pathogen interactions influence the course of disease have been compromised by the facts that the organism cannot be grown in vitro and, as an exclusively human pat...

Part IV Defiance in Groups

Damn Yankees: Demonization & Defiance in the Confederate South

‘We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies’.(1) These famous lines from Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address serve as a stark point of contrast in the introduction of Damn Yankees! Demonization and Defiance in the Confederate South. For whilst Lincoln implored the nation to avoid violent confrontation, the war of words had already begun. As George C. Rable vividly demonstrate...