an absorbing, candid and well-written account of his life in Germany under the Wilhehnian Empire, the Weimar Republic, National Socialism, and now the Federal Republic of Germany. As a social document dealing with middle-class life and politics in twentieth-century Germany this book is especially important. It likewise provides a revealing account of German medicine in peace-time and during war...

To test whether the human fusiform face area (FFA) responds not only to faces but to anything human or animate, we used fMRI to measure the response of the FFA to six new stimulus categories. The strongest responses were to stimuli containing faces: human faces (2.0% signal increase from fixation baseline) and human heads (1.7%), with weaker but still strong responses to whole humans (1.5%) and...

background: microsporidia species are obligatory intracellular agents that can in­fect all major animal groups including mammals, birds, fishes and insects. whereas world­wide human infection reports are increasing, the cognition of sources of infec­tion particularly zoonotic transmission could be helpful. we aimed to detect zoono­tic microsporidia spore in fecal samples from some animals with ...

Among objects, human faces might be special. The processing underlying the categorization of human faces and animals was compared in two experiments using upright and inverted natural scenes. Humans and animals were 7rst presented in the full range of scales (from close-up to far views); stimuli were then restricted to face close-ups. Data showed (1) virtually no advantage for faces over animal...