BACKGROUND Most neuroimaging studies investigating sexual arousal in paedophilia used erotic pictures together with a blocked fMRI design and long stimulus presentation time. While this approach allows the detection of sexual arousal, it does not enable the assessment of the immediate processing of erotically salient stimuli. Our study aimed to identify neuronal networks related to the immediat...

The article is a complex case study of 23 poems presenting the image sea maid in lyric poetry K.D. Balmont. following conclusions has been made course works: tends to be frequent love and erotic lyrics linked with decadence motives; many texts are permeated characters Slavic folklore, besides, it important that some poetical ‘renditions’ famous epic songs legends from Russian, Polish Lithuanian...

The induction of a severe fatty liver in rats by the addition of erotic acid to their purified diets was first reported by Standerfer and Handler (1). Creasey, Hankin, and Handschumacher (2) found that the liver fat was largely triglyceride and observed that its accumulation was both prevented and reversed by supplementing the erotic acid diets further with adenine (3). Marked alterations in th...

The paper discusses fragments of utopian notions in South Slavic oral lyric poetry. function those is to express aspirations for a different life, mainly regarding freedom choice, possibility decide on one’s own and act order fulfil desires – even at the cost breaking social rules community. models alternative worlds present songs some segments correspond with reality, but above all, they offer...

The induction of a severe fatty liver in rats by the addition of erotic acid to their purified diets was first reported by Standerfer and Handler (1). Creasey, Hankin, and Handschumacher (2) found that the liver fat was largely triglyceride and observed that its accumulation was both prevented and reversed by supplementing the erotic acid diets further with adenine (3). Marked alterations in th...

Other studies in this laboratory (1) drew our attention to the possibility that erotic acid might be concerned with the maintenance of adequate lactation in the rat and with the survival of the young. Since no data were available on the erotic acid content of milk, this study was undertaken. The occurrence of erotic acid as a component of milk has been indicated since 1904, when Biscaro and Bel...

It is suggested that stigmatization of sexual-erotic identities causes shame that leads to emotions of anger and rage that, in turn, create a fertile basis for violent behavior related to the source of stigmatization. This model is tested comparatively in the U.S. and Germany. A curvilinear regression of evaluation of identities on sexual-eroticism ratings indicates stigmatization of sexual-ero...

In recent years erotic acid (uracil-4-carboxylic acid) has been found to be essential for the growth of some microorganisms;l some pyrimidine-requiring Neurospora mutants were found to grow equally well with uracil and erotic acid2 and some mutants have been found to produce erotic acid.3 It has been suggested that erotic acid is a by-product in the biosynthesis of pyrimidines in Neurospora.s I...