Ideggyogy Szemle
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Biography Historical Article
THE RELEVANCE OF HANS SELYE'S WORK IN THE FIELD OF OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGY.
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Biography Historical Article
SELYE'S CONCEPT OF PLURICAUSAL DISEASES AND ITS IMPACT ON REGULATORY SCIENCE.
Science assumed in recent decades an increasingly important role in the regulatory field. Regulatory science is now regarded as established specific brunch of science. A disturbing anomaly, the emergence of fraudulent data is of major concern both in the field of research and in the regulation. Hans Selye's work on stress, on several forms of pluricausal diseases and on other experimental models came into the focus of interest on the occasion of the Selye Symposium - 2013 held in May 2013 at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
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Biography Historical Article
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF DR. HANS SELYE AND OF HIS INSTITUT DE MèDECINE ET DE CHIRURGIE EXPèRIMENTALES (IMCE).
This article is a short personal recollection of Dr. Hans Selye (HS) and of his institute in order to show, first, why and how he influenced us; second, who he was as a person, human being, physician, scientist, professor, mentor; third, what was the structure and functioning of the Institut de Mèdecine et Chirurgie Expèrimentales (IMCE) and fourth, what HS' contributions and accomplishments were.
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Historical Article
[Dostoyevsky's epilepsy in the light of recent neurobiological data].
Since the 1960s several theories have developed on the epilepsy of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. Probably the most exciting and still actual question might be the subject of the "ecstatic aura", he described in his novels based on his own experiences. During this extremely rare seizure onset the patients experience a strong sense of happiness, harmony and wholeness. The symptomatogenic zone of ecstatic seizures were considered to be of temporal lobe origin for a long time. Lately though this theory seems to be questioned based on the results of SPECT and deep brain EEG monitoring techniques in addition to the enrichment of our knowledge concerning the function of the insular cortex. ⋯ According to new electrophysiology and imaging techniques ecstatic seizures--including the seizure onset of Dostoyevsky--could rather be connected to the insular cortex.