Real hypersexuality is rare in demented subjects. Most inappropriate sexual behaviors are related to disinhibition or lack of taking into account contextual environment and feelings of others. Four dimensions should be taken into account for their analysis: research of intimacy, libido enhancement, disinhibition, and cognitive factors. An integrative model is proposed to adequately adapt their ...

Ferguson and Henderson (1947) described the isolation of a motile coliform organism possessing the major somatic antigen of Shigella sonnei, form I, from the feces of a patient whose clinical history was not available. They called the organism strain C27. It was also found in man and animals by Wheeler (1947), van de Pitt (1953), and Schmid, Velaudapilli and Niles (1954). Recently, similar orga...

But the Lord came down to see. .. the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ''Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do;. .. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.''. .. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all th...

To paraphrase Cole Porter's famous 1926 song, "What is this thing called pain? This funny thing called pain, just who can solve its mystery?" Pain, like love, is all consuming: when you have it, not much else matters, and there is nothing you can do about it. Unlike love, however, we are actually beginning to tease apart the mystery of pain. The substantial progress made over the last decade in...