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Background Forensic evaluations of legal insanity include the experts’ assessment of symptoms present at the mental state examination (MSE) and the mental state at the time of offense (MSO). Delusions and hallucinations are most important.
Pia Jorde Løvgren +4 more
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The Effect of Insanity on the Dissolution of Marriage Contract [PDF]
The renowned Jurists as well as the contemporary law makers consider insanity as a factor of the dissolution of marriage contract. They have their say on account of documents and sayings as a reason for the flaw and hypocracy in marriage contract ...
Saeed Ebrahimi, Mohsen Esmaeili
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L’aliénation mentale devant les juges égyptiens pendant la période de tutelle britannique
Law and medicine have known a specific development, in Egypt, at the beginning of the 19th century. The different Egyptian courts dealt with cases that implied a psychiatric dimension in both penal and civil proceedings. Through the journal al-Muhâmâ, it
Ayang Utriza Yakin +2 more
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What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room
In insanity cases, although the defendant's eventual punishment is legally irrelevant to the jury's decision, it may be psychologically relevant. In this three-part mixed-methods study, Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 83) read a fictional murder
Susan Yamamoto, Evelyn M. Maeder
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A Narrow Definition of Insanity Opined by Medical Experts in the Oliver Smith Will Case in 1847
Physicians specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of insane people (alienists) emerged in the early 19th century and offered their expertise for the courts to consider in judgments of mental competence.
Jeremia Heinik, Kenneth I. Shulman
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La locura desde los archivos. Chile, 1850-1930
This study presents some introductory aspects of psychiatric historiography, particularly in its encounter with the judicial system as an analytical space in which to explore insanity. It focuses on the possibilities of the civil justice, specifically on
María José Correa Gómez
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Les nits incendiades. Alquímia i representació en la poesia de Palau i Fabre
It is still necessary to ponder those things which, because of their very nature, seem impossible to understand. Josep Palau i Fabre vindicated a literature grafted with madness such as the alchemic tradition, in order to re-encounter a form of grandness
Sergi Álvarez Riosalido
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This article discusses historical, archival and theoretical material constructed about the children, who were labeld insane in Denmark, across the period of 1900-1930.
Trine Elisabeth Møbius Sørensen
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ABSTRACT Ernst Rüdin, an important and controversial figure in the history of psychiatric genetics, published only one major empirical study on siblings of dementia praecox (DP) probands in 1916. He conducted a parallel study of siblings of probands with manic‐depressive insanity (MDI), but the resulting monograph, written in the early 1920s, was left ...
Kenneth S. Kendler, Astrid Klee
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Back Again to the Future: A New Era for Cerebroprotection
Cerebroprotection is a fresh framework for designing neurological therapy that targets glia and vascular cells, in addition to neurons. In the future, successful cerebroprotection will involve targeting all elements of the neurovascular unit. Preclinical trials must include functional outcomes, as well as lesion morphometry.
Patrick Lyden
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