The article is devoted to the modeling of linguistic personality generalized type midwife, who takes an active part in all rituals Ukrainian rite childbirth. In ritual discourse, this woman reflects norms ethnic culture. purpose our research was analyze collective midwife on ethnographic materials and folk songs that accompanied object cultural woman, took antenatal post partum rituals, as well...

The present report introduces, as a first study, the concept and methods of oscillatory brain dynamics to analyze well-known (familiar) and unfamiliar face processing in the 800 ms following a face presentation. We analyzed event-related oscillations in young, healthy subjects (N=26) by using three types of stimulation: (1) a simple light signal, (2) the picture of the face of an anonymous elde...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of an intervention for teenage mothers with the involvement of maternal grandmothers on the prevalence of pacifier use in the first six months of life. METHODS This randomized clinical trial involved 323 teenage mothers, allocated to four groups: intervention with teenagers only, intervention with teenagers and their mothers, and respective controls. Six breastf...

objective: mitochondrial dna (mtdna) is a useful tool for population studies, identification of humans and forensic dna studies. the existence of several hundreds copies of mtdna per cell permit its extraction from minute or degraded samples. in addition, the level of polymorphism in the hypervariable (hv) region is high enough to permit its use in human identity testing. however, the presence ...

BACKGROUND Folie à deux is a very rare psychiatric syndrome in which a psychotic symptom is transmitted from one individual to another. We present a case of folie à deux occurring during childhood, which is not an usual presentation of this syndrome. In this case, the disorder is correlated with child abuse and neglect, which possibly had a role in the development of the symptoms in our case. ...

Postmenopausal longevity may have evolved in our lineage when ancestral grandmothers subsidized their daughters' fertility by provisioning grandchildren, but the verbal hypothesis has lacked mathematical support until now. Here, we present a formal simulation in which life spans similar to those of modern chimpanzees lengthen into the modern human range as a consequence of grandmother effects. ...