[Female-to-male transgender chest reconstruction: A retrospective study of patient satisfaction].

Background: Mammaplasty in gender reassignment surgery is often poorly understood, due to a lack of information about this condition and its therapy. The aim of this work was to evaluate patient satisfaction following bilateral mastectomy for female-to-male gender reassignment.

Methods: We contacted 22 patients who underwent mammaplasty for female-to-male gender reassignment between January 2012 and March 2013 in our university hospital.

The language-number interface in the brain: a complex parametric study of quantifiers and quantities.

The neural bases for numerosity and language are of perennial interest. In monkeys, neural separation of numerical Estimation and numerical Comparison has been demonstrated. As linguistic and numerical knowledge can only be compared in humans, we used a new fMRI paradigm in an attempt to dissociate Estimation from Comparison, and at the same time uncover the neural relation between numerosity and language.

[A randomized controlled study on the impact of pharmacoeducation on a French patient population with schizophrenic and schizoaffective disorders].

Objective: To evaluate the impact of a pharmacoeducation module both on hospital stay and on clinical and functional state in a French patient population with schizophrenic and schizoaffective disorders.

Methods: After inclusion, 82 patients were randomly distributed in 2 groups, one group receiving the pharmacoeducation module and the other to be a control group. Data on the number of hospital stays and emergency visits, and the type of medication received, were compiled.

A new empirical angle on the variability debate: quantitative neurosyntactic analyses of a large data set from Broca's aphasia.

Behavioral variation in Broca's aphasia has been characterized as boundless, calling into question the validity of the syndrome-based schema and related diagnostic methods of acquired language disorders. More generally, this putative variability has cast serious doubts on the feasibility of localizing linguistic operations in cortex. We present a new approach to the quantitative analysis of deficient linguistic performance, and apply it to a large data set, constructed from the published literature: Comprehension data of 69 carefully selected Broca's aphasic patients, tested on nearly 6000 stimulus sentences, were partitioned in different ways, and subjected to a series of analyses.