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Since the original description of Gerstmann's syndrome with its four cardinal symptoms, among which are finger agnosia and acalculia, the neuro-cognitive relationship between fingers and calculation has been debated. We asked our participants to perform four different tasks, two of which involved fingers and the other two involving numbers, during repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r...

Segundo Kierkegaard, a verdade se sobrepõe ao caráter objetivo que encerra investigação histórica e exercício especulativo, dialogando com subjetividade condição-limite da interioridade. Detendo-se em tal princípio hermenêutico-existencial, o artigo assinala espiritualidade enquanto experiência epistêmico-existencial envolvendo como paradoxo à mediação lógico-discursiva implica uma construção d...

112 http://oncology.thelancet.com Vol 6 February 2005 Diagnostic imaging, from radiographs to CT, has been used throughout the history of radiotherapy to define the site to which the radiation should be delivered for patients with cancer. Theragnostic imaging is a method by which the radiation dose can be delivered in the four dimensions of space and time to achieve the optimum outcome after ra...

This essay explores the reparative work of diagnostic retellings in breast cancer and BRCA memoirs (memoirs written by women who learn they carry a mutation predisposing them to develop breast or ovarian cancers). It considers four memoirists (Felicia Knaul, Melanie Norton, Masha Gessen, and Sarah Gabriel) as they illuminate initial moments of "finding out"--learning they have cancer or have te...