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Selected AbstractsAnomia for people's names, a restricted form of transient epileptic amnesiaEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY, Issue 6 2003F. Ghika-Schmid A 37-year-old man consulted after two episodes of transient anomia for people's names over a period of 6 months. The first episode lasted about 10 min and was restricted to an inability to remember his 2-year-old son's first name. The second, was limited to an inability to recall his daughter's first name for 5 min with clear abnormal experiential quality. Witnessed descriptions of the attacks confirmed the absence of any other cognitive impairment or motor automatisms. The neurological examination was normal except for hyposmia. Inter-ictal cognitive evaluation was normal apart from the anomia for people's names or retrieval of names of familiar people in his childhood on definition and on famous faces naming test. A wake electroencephalograph showed left temporal epileptiform abnormalities, following hyperpnea. On magnetic resonance imaging, quantitative analysis revealed a mildly decreased volume of the left hippocampus. The diagnosis of transient epileptic amnesia (TEA) was considered and the patient did not recur for 6 months under lamotriginum. Thus anomia for people's names may be the sole clinical manifestation of TEA. Such a clinical presentation may easily be overlooked. Treatment may prevent further recurrence and the installation of more important and permanent autobiographical memory impairment. Our observation may suggest an isolated system not only for people's knowledge, but for people's naming. It is consistent with the notion of proper name as pure referring expression. [source] Self-references among children's first fifty words: Indications for an emerging sense of self in Dutch-speaking childrenINFANT AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2001Matty van der Meulen Abstract The present study investigated at what age self-references would turn up for the first time in young children's language and what kind of words these were. This was studied for a corpus of the first 50 words, produced by ten children, five boys and five girls, collected through parental reports. Self-references were defined as all words that referred in one way or another to the speakers themselves. They were not restricted to utterances containing pronominals of the first person singular or the child's first name. The appearance of self-references varied with the onset of speech. Children who started to speak early also produced self-referent words at an early age (between 12 and 16 months). Self-references could be satisfactorily classified into three lexical categories: nominals, action words and modifiers, containing words (a) labelling body parts, (b) verbalizing action plans and ongoing actions, and (c) expressing characteristics of outer appearance and actions, and physical sensations, respectively. This indicates that young children's sense of self is not restricted to an awareness of their own actions, but that a variety of experiences contribute to this. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Status and Likabiiity: Can the "Mindful" Woman Have It All?,JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 10 2003Tracie L. Stewart A total of 182 college students in The Netherlands participated in a study assessing the effects of a college teacher's gender, term of address (title vs. first name), and mindfulness (i.e., openness to novelty, awareness of both context and content of information; Langer, 1989) on perceptions of the teacher's status, likabiiity, and femininity. Participants read and answered questions about a fictional transcript of a class session taught by either a male or female teacher addressed by first name or title and acting in a mindful or mindless manner. As predicted, teachers were perceived to hold higher status if male and if addressed by title. Mindful teachers were rated higher than mindless teachers on both femininity and accessibility, but not status. [source] High operative risk of cool-tip radiofrequency ablation for unresectable pancreatic head cancer.JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY, Issue 5 2008Anastasios D, Archodia V, Athanasios R, Athina C. 2007., John S, Nikolaos M, Spiros K The article to which this erratum refers was published in J Surg Oncol (2007) 96: 89,90. © 2007 Wiley-Liss, Inc. In the original article by Spiliotis et al., the authors' first names and surnames were inverted. The authorship appears here in its correct format. [source] | |||||||||||||