Gustav Flaubert's "nervous disease": an autobiographic and epileptological approach.

Psychological and physiological responses to odor-evoked autobiographic memory.

OBJECTIVE The "Proust phenomenon" occurs when a certain smell evokes a specific memory. Recent studies have demonstrated that odor-evoked autobiographic memories are more emotional than those elicited by other sensory stimuli because of the direct neural communication between the olfactory system and the amygdala. The amygdala is known to regulate various physiological activities including the ...

Comparing Different Control Architectures for Autobiographic Agents in Static Virtual Environments

This paper highlights the effectiveness of autobiographic memory applied to an autonomous agent from an Artificial Life perspective. A virtual experimental based approach deals with different implementations of control architectures for autobiographic agents, including detailed measurements of the agent’s lifetimes compared with a Purely Reactive agent, running in two distinct static environmen...

Gustav III’s risk assessment on coffee consumption; A medical history report

Epileptological emergencies in Accident and Emergency: a survey at St James’s University Hospital, Leeds

Many patients attending an Accident and Emergency (A&E) department with seizures never come into contact with a neurological service. This survey was designed to find out how many patients with epileptological emergencies come to A&E and how they are managed. Cases were identified using the computerized A&E database. The A&E records of all adult patients attending the casualty department at St ...

Cross-talks between the kidneys and the central nervous system in multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease, which is considered as a common autoimmune disorder in young adults. A growing number of evidences indicated that the impairment in non-neural tissues plays a significant role in pathology of MS disease. There are bidirectional relationship, metabolic activities and functional similarity between central nervous system (CNS) and k...