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The article discusses ancient philosophical sources for humourism. It focuses on the philosophical context described in the first chapter of Beata Wojciechowska’s book Flebotomia i purgowanie, czyli o leczeniu w wiekach średnich [Phlebotomyand purging, or about medical treatment in the Middle Ages]. The author briefly points out the differences between the Epicurean, Stoic, Peripatetic and Academic positions on the nature of the soul, its relation to the body and the universe.
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Review of: Inventing Berlin. Architecture, Politics and Cultural Memory in the New/Old German Capital Post-1989/ Mary DELLENBAUGH-LOSSE, Springer, Cham, 2020, 197 p.
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Review of: Alexandrina Cantacuzino și mișcarea feministă din anii interbelici [Alexandrina Cantacuzino and the Feminist Movement of the Interwar Years], edition of documents elaborated by Anemari Monica NEGRU, volumes I–II; Editura Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviște, 2014, 345 p. (vol. I), 2019, 395 p. (vol. II)
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Review: Ambiguous Transitions: Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania/ Jill MASSINO, Berghahn Books, New York, 2019, 453 p.
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Rosacea is a chronic skin condition with a global incidence ranging from 1% to 22%, affecting mainly women aged between 30 and 55 years. The etiopathogenesis of rosacea is complex, involving genetic factors, cutaneous or intestinal dysbiosis, neurovascular dysfunction, or immune disorders. Clinically, it is characterized by persistent or transient facial erythema, papules, pustules, phymatous changes, ocular manifestations, and associated symptoms such as burning sensation or local stinging.Physical appearance and facial features significantly influence all social aspects a person experiences, from various interpersonal relationships to employment decisions. The disease can lead to social stigmatization and significantly reduce the quality of life. The chronic course of rosacea and its predominant facial localization, visible in the patient's social environment, justify the increased incidence of psychiatric comorbidities in these patients.Rosacea is an easily observable condition, especially due to persistent redness, which often leads to the development of feelings of anxiety or social phobia, stigmatization, or comorbidities such as depression, generalized anxiety, or bipolar disorder.Currently, the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) Task Force on Quality of Life in rosacea recommend the use of specific scores for inflammatory dermatological diseases, such as the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) and the Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID), as well as the specific rosacea score RosaQoL.The current study aims to describe the psychosocial impact of rosacea on these patients. Due to the increased incidence of depression and anxiety in this patient group, great attention must be given to signs and symptoms of psychiatric comorbidities, and the therapeutic approach should target both dermatological treatment and associated treatment from the perspective of a psychiatrist or psychologist.
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Background: Rapid symptom progression is one of the most important clues that a person may have Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease. There is no single test-or any combination of tests-that can conclusively diagnose sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a living person.Objectives: The aim of this article is to study some distinct features of patients with Creutzfeldt-Jacobs’s disease in order to make a differential diagnosis with other disorders.Material and Methods. It is a review of publications from the last years, using medical sites such as PubMed, Medscape, NCBI, Med bullets. A clinical case is also presented.Results. Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease (CJD) is the most common human form of a group of rare, fatal brain disorders known as prion diseases. Prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease, occur when prion protein, which is found throughout the body but whose normal function isn't yet known, begins folding into an abnormal three-dimensional shape. This shape change gradually triggers prion protein in the brain to fold into the same abnormal shape. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease causes a type of dementia that gets worse unusually fast. More common causes of dementia, such as Alzheimer's, Lewy body dementia and fronto-temporal dementia, typically progress more slowly. Generally, there are three types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: sporadic, familial and acquired. Conclusions. Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease is a rare disease with psychiatric symptoms who include depression, agitation, apathy, disorientation, problems with memory, thinking, planning and judgment. The clinical presentation of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease usually begins with a psychiatric prodrome, often at least 6 months before the onset of traditional neurologic symptoms.
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In the volume of essays “The Absolute - from disintegration to reconstruction”, the theorist and thinker Mircea Braga starts from the considerations of the philosopher George Steiner about the “disintegration" of the old existential platform of humanity, based on a mythical knowledge of man and of the universe. The new existential platform absolutizes human reason and proclaims the “death of God," to promote social and ideological mythologies that promised earthly heaven. However, at the beginning of the 21st century, the Absolute is reconstructed with the help of science that ascertains the infinity of worlds that make up the universe. Neurosurgery proves the existence of the soul and quantum physics proclaims the validity of multiple worlds beyond the limits of our perception. Including the “world beyond"! The Absolute is “reconstructed", therefore, on scientific bases, consolidating itself both theoretically and spiritually. Mircea Braga captures the way of coagulation of the concept of the possible world in the prosaic and poetic, religious and analytical imaginary, by appealing to scientific studies and literary texts from the Romanian cultural space.
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Review of: Alberto Basciani, Empire in the Balkans. The Italian occupation of Albania, 1939-1943, Viella Libreria Editrice, Rome, 2022, 302 p.
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This paper aims to get an insight into students’ perceptions regarding hybrid learning/on-line learning, in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic. This seems to be increasingly important, as decision-making in any university takes into account the viewpoints of all the important stakeholders, in this particular case, professors and students alike. In this research study, I focused on the first year students of only one faculty of Bucharest University of Economic Studies, namely International Business and Economics.
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The monograph published by Joanna Targońska (University of Olsztyn) in 2021 presents a multidimensional approach to the reflexive and aware acquisition of collocation competence in a foreign language. It also includes empirical verification of the model in a longitudinal study. The aim of the review is to analyse the author’s contribution to the understanding of lexis acquisition as well as its implications with regards to the foreign language learning and teaching.
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