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J Adolesc Health
November 2022
Department of Medicine, Science, and the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
An historical view of the pineal gland and mental disorders.
J Clin Neurosci
August 2011
Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain.
Since Classical Antiquity numerous authors have linked the origin of some mental disorders to physical and functional changes in the pineal gland because of its attributed role in humans as the connection between the material and the spiritual world. The pineal organ was seen as a valve-like structure that regulated the flow of animal spirits through the ventricular system, a hypothesis that took on more vigour during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The framework for this theory was "the three cells of the brain", in which the pineal gland was even called the "appendix of thought".
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Saint Orosia's convulsionaries].
Neurologia
March 2005
Servicio de Neurología, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid.
Annual outbreaks of mass motor hysteria have been observed in the past during some religious celebrations. In Jaca, a Northern Spanish town close to the Pyrenees, the convulsionaries have been well known since the eleventh century, though little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in the medical literature. Pilgrims from remote parts of the valleys gathered in procession on June 25th in front of Saint Orosia sarcophagus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The clinical syndrome of the acute scrotum, whereby the spermatic cord or appendix testis becomes twisted, commonly affects young men. Our knowledge of this condition, however, is of relatively recent origin.
Materials And Methods: We performed an historical survey of torsion of the scrotal organs dating back to 1703.
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