Background While the symptom of “I am already dead” is a hallmark Cotard's syndrome, also known as nihilistic delusions, “you are has been neglected. Case presentation A woman aged in her 60s diagnosed with schizophrenia was admitted to our hospital for psychotic symptoms, including delusions reference, guilt, auditory hallucinations, cenesthetic agitation, depression, suicidal ideation, and ca...

Abstract In what way does Kierkegaard’s conception of selfhood and despair address the prospect nihilistic humanism wherein God, sin, spirit are conceived as creations humankind intended to escape distress nihilism imbue life with meaning? By contrasting thought that a Straussian‐Feuerbachian amalgam ‘Left Hegelianism’, I argue work (i.e., taken more holistically than Anti‐Climacus’s writings a...

Cerebral revascularization strategies for acute ischemic stroke have been developed during the past decade. Many of these strategies are currently being evaluated and gaining in popularity, offering hope to those with an otherwise nihilistic disease. Herein, the authors discuss the current progress toward these goals and the efforts being made to develop a safe and efficacious method of clot re...

Management of intra-articular calcaneal fractures during the past years has ranged from the nihilistic approach of no active treatment to open reduction and internal fixation or even to early subtalar arthrodesis. Operative treatment presents the surgeon with many challenges. Good results require atraumatic exposure, anatomic reduction, rigid fixation and early mobilization. We describe the use...

It is possible, with the increasing recognition and repetition of epidemiological data that provide compelling evidence for the appalling toll that cardiovascular (CV) pathology exerts on patients with advanced renal failure, to become both blasé and nihilistic. Dialysis patients aged 20–30 years have the same cardiovascular mortality (CVM) as non-diabetic non-uraemic subjects aged 70–80! Despi...

during limb lengthening involving external fixation,1 with an incidence as high as 85%.2 The most appropriate pin-site care is controversial; one study even justifies a nihilistic approach.3 Pin sites near joints are more prone to sepsis, as they are subject to greater movement.4 Minor inflammation or superficial infection is usually treated with antibiotics, local wound care, and occasionally ...