purpose: to evaluate the incidence of the oculo-cardiac reflex (ocr) and its associated risk factors during strabismus surgeries performed at a tertiary referral center between 1390 and 1392. methods: over a 2-year period, all strabismus surgery candidates were enrolled in the study after obtaining consent from the patients or their parents. vital signs were recorded before the initiation of th...

Treatment of rats with monocrotaline (MCT) leads to pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular (RV) hypertrophy, and finally to RV heart failure. This is associated with characteristic changes in right ventricular -adrenoceptors ( -AR), neuronal noradrenaline transporter (NAT) density and activity (uptake1), and G protein– coupled receptor kinase (GRK) activity. This study aimed to find out fact...

Olivia Andrea Masseck, Klaus-Peter Hoffmann* 3 Department of General Zoology and Neurobiology, 4 Ruhr University Bochum, 5 D-44780, Germany 6 * Corresponding author: Prof. Dr. K.P. Hoffmann 7 Dept. General Zoology and Neurobiology, Ruhr University Bochum 8 Universitätsstr. 150, ND 7/31, D-44780 Bochum, Germany, 9 Phone : (+49)234-32-24363, Fax: (+49)234-32-14185 10 email : [email protected]...

The case of an infant with Werding-Hoffmann disease, who died at the age of 4 1/2 days, is reported. At autopsy there was severe cerebellar hypoplasia, associated with degenerative changes in the brain-stem nuclei. This case supports the concept that cerebellar hypoplasia may develop as a manifestation of the neuronal abiotrophy of Werdnig-Hoffmann disease. A similarity has been noted between t...


 É frequentemente ignorado que, ao entender a percepção como origem da maioria, se não de todos os conceitos, pensamentos e eventos mentais, E.T.A. Hoffmann é muito mais moderno do que normalmente supõe. De fato, neste aspecto, ele está próximo algumas ideias Peirce Wittgenstein.

In their original report [Kunde, W., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann, J. (2003). Conscious control over the content of unconscious cognition. Cognition, 88, 223–242] maintain that “unconscious stimuli [do not] owe their impact [.] to automatic semantic categorization” (p.223), and instead propose the action-trigger theory of unconscious priming. In a reply to our paper [Kunde, W., Kiesel, A., & Hoffmann...

The 2011 Noble Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Bruce A. Beutler, Jules A. Hoffmann and Ralph M. Steinman for their groundbreaking research within immunology. Bruce A. Beutler and Jules A. Hoffmann were recognized for their discoveries on Toll and Toll-like receptor activation of innate immunity in fruit fly and mammals, respectively. Ralph M. Steinman received the award for the d...

INTRODUCTION THE TITLE of this essay correctly indicates that it is about Hippocrates. Yet the content is largely concerned with the writings of Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742), Professor of Medicine and Physics at Halle from 1693 to 1742, and the author of an influential system of medicine. This requires some explanation. It is about Hippocrates, or the Hippocratic writings, in the sense that i...