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🔗 Psychiatric assessment and treatment of survivors of torture | BJPsych Advances

Torture remains an ongoing global problem. Many individuals who have migrated from areas of conflict and political instability have suffered some form of torture. Survivors of torture can present significant challenges to general practitioners, voluntary bodies and mental health services. This article describes the many physical, psychological and social effects of torture. An understanding of these will hopefully aid comprehensive assessment of survivors of torture by local mental health teams. Also described are the current treatment options and their evidence base.

🔗 الوطن | شهادة من جامعة الإسكندرية: «عبدالعاطى» فنى معمل وممتاز فى إصلاح الأجهزة العلمية الدقيقة

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قطعة أرض يمتلكها إبراهيم عبدالعاطى فى منطقة العامرية بالإسكندرية دخل بسببها فى نزاع قضائى مع القوات المسلحة، وأقام دعوى سنة 1990 ضد وزير الدفاع والإنتاج الحربى والقائد العام للقوات المسلحة بصفته وضد اللواء رئيس الهيئة الهندسية للقوات المسلحة بصفته.. وأعلنهما المدعى بهيئة قضايا الدولة فى الإسكندرية، يطالب بتعويض عن أرض يمتلكها واستخدمت لإنشاء مبنى تابع للقوات المسلحة.. وصدر لصالحه حكم فى الدعوى التى حملت رقم 8729 لسنة 1990 مدنى كلى الإسكندرية الصادر بجلسة 29 يونيو سنة 1991 بأن يؤدى الجيش للطالب مبلغا وقدره سبعة ملايين وخمسمائة وتسعة آلاف جنيه.

🔗 Olimex: OpenEEG

The OpenEEG project is about making plans and software for do-it-yourself EEG devices available for free (as in GPL). It is aimed toward amateurs who would like to experiment with EEG. However, if you are a pro in any of the fields of electronics, neurofeedback, software development etc., you are of course welcome to join the mailing-list and share your wisdom.

🔗 They Starved So That Others Be Better Fed: Remembering Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Experiment

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During World War II, 36 conscientious objectors participated in a study of human starvation conducted by Ancel Keys and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota. The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, as it was later known, was a grueling study meant to gain insight into the physical and psychologic effects of semistarvation and the problem of refeeding civilians who had been starved during the war.