Many scientific authors--among them famous names such as Henri Gastaut or Sigmund Freud--dealt with the question from what kind of epilepsy Fyodor Mikhailovitch Dostoevsky (1821-1881) might had suffered. Because of the tight interplay between Dostoevsky's literary work and his own disease we throw light on the author's epilepsy against the background of his epileptic fictional characters. Moreo...

Axel Müller1, Thomas M. Helms2, Hans-Jürgen Wildau3, Jörg Otto Schwab4 and Christian Zugck5 1Klinik für Innere Medizin I der Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH Bürgerstr. 2, D-09113 Chemnitz, 2Deutsche Stiftung für chronisch Kranke, Alexanderstraße 26, D-90762 Fürth, 3BIOTRONIK SE Co,Woermannkehre 1, D-12359 Berlin, 4Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, ...

In 1895, a neuropathologist at the University of Vienna observed that “a large number of cases of infantile cerebral palsy is caused by the same factors that bring about the majority of cases of cerebral paralysis of adults: by tearing, embolism, and thrombosis of cerebral vessels.” While Sigmund Freud would go on to become better known for other endeavors, his observation that children can hav...

Detection of Antibodies against Double-Stranded DNA in Serum for the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Jan-Christian Wasmuth, Barbara Grün, Birgit Terjung, Angela Homrighausen, and Ulrich Spengler (Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; * address correspondence to this author at: University of Bonn, Department of Internal Medicine I, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse...

From the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, the Department of Neurology and Neurobiology, Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Chicago, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, and the Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, D-53127, Bonn, Germany. Present address: Department of ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA 3 Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA 4 Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia 5 Division of Adolescent Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Cen...

R. ANDREW PASKAUSKAS (ed.), The complete correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest Jones 1908-1939, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1993, pp. xlix, 836, £29.95 (0-674-15423-1). EVA BRABANT, ERNST FALZEDER, PATRIZIA GIAMPIERI-DEUTSCH (eds), The correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sdnder Ferenczi, 1908-14, vol. 1, transl. Peter T. Hoffer, Cambridge, M...

Introduction ................................................................................................................... 1 1. Unconscious .............................................................................................................. 3 2. Oedipus Conflict ....................................................................................................... 4 3. Practice ...