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Cardiac arrest after anesthetic management in a patient with hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy type IV

open access: yesSaudi Journal of Anaesthesia, 2011
Hereditary sensory autonomic neuropathy type IV is a rare disorder with an autosomal recessive transmission and characterized by self-mutilation due to a lack in pain and heat sensation.
Ergül Yakup   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Psychiatric Comorbidity, Tic Severity and Quality of Life in Adults with Tourette's Syndrome

open access: yesMovement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Psychiatric comorbidities are common in adults with Tourette's Syndrome (TS), and appear to influence both tic severity and quality of life (QOL). Objective To assess the association between psychiatric comorbidities, tic severity and QOL in TS.
Andreas Hartmann   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self Mutilating Behaviour in Severe Meningococcal Infection; An Interesting Association [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Neisseria meningitidis most commonly manifests as asymptomatic colonization in the nasopharynx of healthy adolescents and adults. It may rarely present as invasive disease which may be either bacterial meningitis or meningococcal septicaemia.
Anju Dinkar   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imagination in Critical Theory: Utopia, Ideology, Aesthetics

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the role of imagination in critical theory, addressing its conceptual ambiguity and its synthesis of three distinct but interrelated strands. The first, rooted in Freud's theory, sees imagination as wish‐fulfillment—necessarily unreal yet foundational to utopian thought.
Markus Gante
wiley   +1 more source

Relation between the level of self-mutilation and theconcentration of fecal metabolites of glucocorticoids incaptive chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

open access: yesPesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2015
The influence of stress in an environment, according with the behavioral and endocrine variables of primates, are increasingly being studied by a diversity of authors, and have shown that abnormal behaviors associated with increased glucocorticoids may ...
Cristiane S. Pizzutto   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
wiley   +1 more source

Unravelling Evolutionary Dynamics of Female Sexual Cannibalism and Male Reproductive Strategies in Spiders

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Sexual cannibalism (SC), where one mating partner consumes the other in the context of mating, is especially prevalent among spiders. However, the evolution of SC in spiders is still not fully understood. We review key hypotheses for SC and explore how female‐initiated SC has driven the evolution of various male counter‐adaptations to mitigate its ...
Simona Kralj‐Fišer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liminal Bioethics for Liminal Statuses: A New Method for Analysing Novel Biological Entities

open access: yesBioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Novel biological entities such as cell lines and organoids do not typically fit into established conceptual categories, such as ‘human’ or ‘nonhuman’, ‘gift’ or ‘property’. This makes developing robust ethical principles or policy solutions difficult.
Michael Wee, Ilina Singh
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Factors for Self-mutilation Behaviors in Adolescents: An Integrative Review [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های علوم شناختی و رفتاری
Adolescence is characterized by physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral changes capable of resulting in the development of a healthy and autonomous individual, as well as contributing to self-injurious behavior.
Rommel Candeia de Albuquerque   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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