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Sunday, November 08, 2009

[The painful light--portraits of awakeness and melancholy by painter Edward Hopper]

6 Oct 2009 Depression was a recurrent phenomenon in the life of the American painter Edward Hopper (1882-1967). He is known as one of the artists who portrays modern melancholy most convincingly. The article uses his original artwork to reflect upon sleep, ... Read more...

Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations.

29 Sep 2009 Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) was first documented in the medical literature in 1886. A HGPS patient has the physical characteristics and appearances of an elderly individual. In 1921, F. Scott Fitzgerald published a short story ... Read more...

Anatomical segregation of representations of personally familiar and famous people in the temporal and parietal cortices.

29 Sep 2009 Person recognition has been assumed to entail many types of person-specific cognitive responses, including retrieval of knowledge, episodic recollection, and emotional responses. To demonstrate the cortical correlates of this modular structure of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Famous Persons'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The cover. Giant Indian fruit bat. 26 Oct 2009
• The cover. The court jester Stanczyk (1480-1560) receives news of the loss of Smolensk (1514), during a ball at Queen Bona's court. 19 Oct 2009
• The cover. Spatial concept: expectations. 12 Oct 2009
• [The painful light--portraits of awakeness and melancholy by painter Edward Hopper] 6 Oct 2009
• The cover. Granada woman. 5 Oct 2009
• Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome: its presentation in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' and its oral manifestations. 29 Sep 2009
• Saint Lucy, the Patron Saint of the Blind. 29 Sep 2009
• Anatomical segregation of representations of personally familiar and famous people in the temporal and parietal cortices. 29 Sep 2009
• Targeted caricatures. 29 Sep 2009
• Senator Kennedy's legacy to U.S. health and health care. 28 Sep 2009
• The cover. The physician Hua Tuo scraping the bone of Guan Yu to treat an arrow wound. 21 Sep 2009
• The cover. Lute-player. 14 Sep 2009
• Overlook agricultural research at our peril. 12 Sep 2009
• The cover. Pomona. 7 Sep 2009
• Legacy of practicality, compromise. Kennedy's healthcare work was about passing bills, not furthering ideology. 5 Sep 2009
• The cover. Le pere jacques (the wood gatherer). 31 Aug 2009
• Celebrities may help bring positive media attention to cancer. 30 Aug 2009
• ["Death sleeps in life and life sleeps in death". The enigma of suicide--the example Stig Dagerman] 30 Aug 2009
• The medical home. 30 Aug 2009
• [Was Nietzsche's genius a consequence of mental disease] 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Famous Persons'

Descriptor UI: D005197

Alternative terms: Famous Persons; Famous Person; Person, Famous; Persons, Famous;

Tree Number: K01.517.211.506; M01.228;

Technical Notes: IM; no qualif; Manual 32.16.11, 32.16.12; when not to use: 32.16.7