I may speak alike to you and my own conscious heart. —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) I. EVALUATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS A. Two definitions of consciousness: intuitive and operational 1. Intuitively, we define consciousness…
As not only the disease interested the physician, but he was strongly moved to look into the character and qualities of the patient. … He deemed it essential, it would…
Nature, indeed has had a triple end in view in the distribution of nerves: she wished to give sensibility to organs of perception, movement to organs of locomotion, and to…
But how great was his apprehension, when he farther understood, that [the force of parturition] acting upon the very vertex of the head, not only injured the brain itself, or…
We have instruments of precision in increasing numbers with which we and our hospital assistants at untold expense make tests and take observations, the vast majority of which are but…
TABLE 5-1 • The Five Major Eye-Movement Systems System Function or characteristic Saccadic system Produces all volitional movements and the fast phase of reflex eye movements (frontal lobe) Fixation (position…
Much will be gained if we succeed in transforming your hysterical misery into common unhappiness. —Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) I. THE GENERAL CLINICAL FEATURES OF CONVERSION DISORDER (FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGIC SYMPTOM DISORDER) A. Definition…
In clinical situations there are three principal factors that can legitimately influence the decision making process. These are: 1. The scientific evidence 2. The practitioner’s clinical experience 3. The practical…
29 Minimally Invasive Spinal Fusion Procedures Mark P. Kuper, Mark C. Valente, William R. Taylor, and Choll W. Kim Conventional open spinal approaches require extensive dissections to allow for the…
27 Spinal Fusion: Anterior Approach Selvon St. Clair and Isador H. Lieberman The technique of spinal arthrodesis was first described by Albee1 in 1911 for the treatment of Pott disease…
