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Sleep is integral to human health and well-being; it is recognized as a fundamental right by international bodies. Nevertheless, deliberate sleep deprivation is frequently employed as a form of torture, violating the right to health. Legal cases such as LeMaire v Maass, Ireland v UK, and Huertas v Secretary Pennsylvania Dept of Corrections illustrate the varying interpretations of sleep deprivation as torture or cruel and unusual punishment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) studies report functional alterations in the connectivity between intrinsic brain networks in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but PTSD heterogeneity is rarely considered. Evidence points to fear (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNaunyn Schmiedebergs Arch Pharmacol
November 2023
Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine, University of Tartu, Ravila Street 19, 50411, Tartu, Estonia.
Today, the University of Tartu (earlier Dorpat) belongs among the 250 best universities of the world. Its international team of pharmacologists uses powerful confocal microscopes to study apoptosis and cell death within an international consortium. Science is working on solutions to fight Alzheimer disease, which is a torture for humankind.
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May 2023
LABANOF (Laboratorio di Antropologia e Odontologia Forense), Istituto di Medicina Legale, Dipartimento di Scienze Biochimiche per la Salute, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
The Istanbul Protocol section on medicolegal evaluation delineates the guidelines for the correct management of the physical examination and the methods of assigning the degrees of consistency. Considering that most cases exhibit highly heterogeneous lesions, the examiner is forced to rely on his own experience, and their evaluation may be very subjective. The purpose of this work is to understand how subjective such an evaluation may be and whether the "experience" factor, interpreted as years dedicated to this profession and the number of cases evaluated, is statistically significant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTransl Psychiatry
February 2022
School of Psychology, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
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