What does it mean to write when you inhabit the fraught borderline between Hebrew and Arabic? Well, it depends on whom you ask. In a Hebrew poem insisting that strangers can be friends, the Palestinian Israeli poet Salman Masalha infuses the statement “Ani kotev ‘ivrit,” “I write Hebrew,” with myriad shades of wonder and possibility.3 In an opposing poetic maneuver, Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Moroc...

Design and Method: A right-handed woman with chronic alcoholism demonstrated mutism, impaired comprehension of spoken language, alexia, and righthanded agraphia. The syndrome of interhemispheric disconnection was manifested by left-handed deficit of constructional ability and agraphia. The patient underwent brain computed tomographic scans, technetium 99 hexylmethylpropylene amineoxime–single p...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 454 VOLUME 45__JUNE 17, 2008 Iodine deficiency causes severe hormone-induced physiological damage to fetus and newborn resulting in cretinism, stunting, deaf-mutism, malformed limbs, spastic motor disorders, poor vision and goiter (swelling of the thyroid gland on the neck), as well as milder forms of mental and physical impairment. There was developmental lag in children of g...

A 42-year-old man presented with akinetic mutism, caused by bilateral thalamic infarction, resulting in a temporary amnesic syndrome and, finally, selective downgaze palsy. Electroencephalographic recording in the initial phase showed generalized spike- and-wave discharges, similar to those found in animal studies after lesion or stimulation of specific thalamic nuclei. Analysis of magnetic res...

as a result of the enlightened attitude of the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Board are good units, that is they are staffed in a manner commensurate with the importance of the problemMental deficiency is a social and legal concept and anyone who has had experience of the problem will know that there are many children classed as mental defectives who will show very gratifying results if speci...