Madness, its place in society, and the tenuous boundaries separating it from reason became a constant concern in Machado deAssis' literary production as of 1880, when a shift can be observed in his work. Clinical studies exploring the relations between art and madness have mentioned this writer countless times. The article offers an overview of Brazilian psychiatry's perception of the arts, art...

BACKGROUND Anthropologic, artistic and medical significance of heart inspired usto undertake this multidisciplinary study. MATERIALS AND METHODS Amongst the 24 obtained echocardiograms and phonograms, 1 was used for a Photoshop processing. In addition, over 20,000 art work reproductions were examined in this study. RESULTS Artistic and symbolic presentation of heart started some 15,000 year...

This article discusses the use of beta-blockers by performing artists, the reasons why they are taken, and the potential associated risks. We argue that there are high levels of usage within sectors of the professional performing arts community and that there may be high levels of risk in using these medications, particularly without medical supervision. Previous studies have mentioned potentia...

One of the most useful signals for building a music similarity representation for recommendation comes from learning a collaborative filtering (CF) space from user data such as user listening behavior and user ratings. However, the distribution of this data is heavily biased towards the most popular music, what we call the head of the distribution. We have much less data on less popular artists...

Measurements of the human face as part of the body have been performed since the Greek era, and many aspects of ancient measurements can be found in modern clinical anthropometry. A historical appraisal of the use of facial measurements is presented. The influence on modern facial anthropometry of Greek proportion sciences, the golden proportion, canons of important Renaissance artists, physica...