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Gifts from the Sentient Forest: biocultural heritage and human-tree relations in Northern Finland

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Forests face myriad threats globally including in Northern Finland, a relatively remote region celebrated as Europe’s last wilderness. Alongside the increasing imperilment of forests, however, lies a growing body of research indicating how trees respond ...
John C. Ryan, Francis Joy
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If Natural Entities Have Intrinsic Value, Should We Then Abstain from Helping Animals Who Are Victims of Natural Processes?

Relations, 2015
The idyllic view of nature is false: natural processes, given the prevalence of the reproductive strategy known as “r-selection”, tend to maximize the suffering of animals in nature. For the animals subjected to natural processes, disvalue overwhelmingly
Luciano Carlos Cunha
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Sentience, Rationality, and Moral Status: A Further Reply to Hsiao [PDF]

, 2016
Timothy Hsiao argues that animals lack moral status because they lack the capacity for the sort of higher-level rationality required for membership in the moral community.
Puryear, Stephen
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Refractory Status Epilepticus Treated With Bilateral Pulvinar Deep Brain Stimulation—A Case Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT New‐onset refractory status epilepticus (NORSE) arises without an identifiable cause or prior epilepsy history, with a 16%–27% mortality rate and significant long‐term neurological sequelae. Neuromodulation such as deep brain stimulation (DBS) targeting the anterior and centromedian thalamic nuclei has shown promise when the traditional ...
Mengxuan Tang, Amerta Bai, Felipe Rodridgues Marques Ferreira, Sandipan Pati, Thaddeus Walczak, Benjamin Miller, Oladi Bentho, Thomas Henry, Ilo Leppik, Minoo Shams, Zhiyi Sha, Zachary Sanger, Theoden I. Netoff, Thomas Lisko, Anant Naik, Robert McGovern III, Sima Patel   +16 more
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The Edge of the Moral Circle

Relations
This essay explores the relationship between two recent books on the scope of moral consideration: “The Edge of Sentience” (Birch 2024a) and “The Moral Circle” (Sebo 2025).
Jeff Sebo
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An Out‐of‐Place Etiology: Recognizing FMR1 Premutation in the Memory Clinic

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The FMR1 gene premutation (55–200 CGG repeats) is usually associated with a wide range of symptoms and phenotypes within the Fragile X‐tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS), but may also manifest as predominant or isolated cognitive decline. We describe three male patients referred for progressive cognitive impairment and behavioral changes. Standard
Guido Greco, Caterina Motta, Enrica Marchionni, Maria Rosaria D'Apice, Carlangelo Carrese, Giuseppe Novelli, Alessandro Martorana, Chiara Giuseppina Bonomi   +7 more
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Sheep complexity outside the laboratory [PDF]

, 2019
Marino & Merskin’s review shows that sheep are intelligent and highly social but their methodology has some shortcomings. I describe five problems with reviewing only the academic and scientific literature and suggest how one might provide an even more ...
E. Abbate, C.
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Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha‐Synuclein in Lewy Body Dementia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the test performance of cutaneous phosphorylated alpha‐synuclein (P‐SYN) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), individuals with reduced Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and healthy controls. Methods This is the first subgroup analysis of the Synuclein‐One study, a prospective, blinded study evaluating P‐SYN detection ...
Christopher H. Gibbons, Todd Levine, Charles H. Adler, Bailey Bellaire, Ningshan Wang, Pinky Agarwal, Georgina M. Aldridge, Alexandru Barboi, Daniel Claassen, Virgilio G. H. Evidente, Douglas Galasko, Alejandra Gonzalez‐Duarte, Ramon Gil, Mark Gudesblatt, Stuart H. Isaacson, Horacio Kaufmann, Pravin Khemani, Rajeev Kumar, Guillaume Lamotte, Andy J. Liu, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Mitchell G. Miglis, Adam Reynolds, Gregory A. Sahagian, Marie‐Helene Saint‐Hilaire, Julie B. Schwartzbard, Wolfgang Singer, Michael J. Soileau, Steven Vernino, Patricio Millar Vernetti, Oleg Yerstein, Roy Freeman   +31 more
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Robots, Autonomy, and Responsibility [PDF]

, 2016
We study whether robots can satisfy the conditions for agents fit to be held responsible in a normative sense, with a focus on autonomy and self-control.
Hakli, Raul, Mäkelä, Pekka
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Neuropsychiatric Symptoms Mimicking Dementia in a Patient Treated With Imatinib

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tyrosine kinase inhibitors are the cornerstone of chronic myeloid leukemia treatment. Newer agents have more potency and a broader spectrum of action, but also a higher potential for neuropsychiatric side effects. We present a case of a patient on imatinib who developed progressive cognitive, mood, and behavioral alterations.
Ashley Jones, Samuele Bonomi, Keith E. Stockerl‐Goldstein, Randall J. Bateman   +3 more
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