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La via d’oro e le pubblicazioni Open Access di Ateneo
Full text linkIntervento presentato durante il Convegno: Le nuove frontiere nella comunicazione scientifica. I cinque anni di MJCP - Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. I traguardi di una Rivista Accademica Open Access. Aula B- Palazzo dei Congressi- A.O.U. "G. Martino"- 22 febbraio 201
Open Science: per un sapere condiviso
No full textIntervento presentato durante il Convegno: Le nuove frontiere nella comunicazione scientifica. I cinque anni di MJCP - Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. I traguardi di una Rivista Accademica Open Access. Aula B- Palazzo dei Congressi- A.O.U. "G. Martino"- 22 febbraio 201
Open Science for a shared and collaborative knowledge
Full text linkThe conventional model of “Scholarly communication”, based on the publication in "tall access" journals and by preference in high-Impact Factor journals, has distorted over time, if not betrayed, its original vocation, that is to "communicate" science.
The year 1665 is often cited, being the year of birth of the Journal des Sçavans in France and of Philosophical Transactions in England, published by Henry Oldenburg to present advances in scientific research to members of the Royal Society. It is the founding date of the first scientific journals and marks the starting point of the privileged circuit for sharing scientific knowledge and encouraging the so-called "Great Conversation" of science. This debate among scientists should be the true essence and the raison d’être of Scholarly Communication.
Since then, unfortunately, academic publishing has turned into a real business, "the most profitable obsolete technology in history", dominated by the "Big Five", a cartel of the five publishing groups (Reed Elsevier, Wiley- Blackwell, Springer, Taylor & Francis, Sage) which rank in the highest positions in the international scientific publishing market, both in terms of profit margins (38% of Reed Elsevier's net profit), and the number of articles published every year, with a price spiral in subscription costs that peaked at 402% for the period 1986-2011.
Economic barriers are only one of the obstacles that restrict access to research findings. Paradoxically, although huge economic investments are made by the
institutions to enable the academic community to do research, much of the scientific literature is actually inaccessible. Jon Tennant remarks: "we spend 1/3 of the total global research budget (£59/175bn) in publishing and communicating results that 99% of people cannot access"
The Quality of Life as Primary End Point in the Psychotherapeutic treatment of Breast Cancer
No full textBackground: A low quality of life with symptoms of depression, anxiety and distress is generally present in patients with breast cancer. The purpose of this study consists of proving how a psychotherapeutic approach could improve the quality of life of patients, by reducing the symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Materials and Methods: Eight patients were identified, all with a stage comprised between t1 and t2, some with N+ all with M0, all of them had completed the specific oncology therapies. The psychotherapy of this group lasted 6 months with a total of 24 meetings with transpersonal psychotherapy used. During the meetings specific techniques were used such as: bioenergetics, creative meditations and drawing with Simonton method. The assessment test used was the WHO/QOF, of which six major domains were extrapolated (physical, psychological, level of independence, social relations, environment and spirituality) using an analog-visual scale.
Results: There was shown to be a general improvement in all domains studied and in particular, the physical and psychological domains. A doubling in score of the second domain was observed, increasing from an average of 4,11 to 8,6 (1,84 sd). In terms of the first domain (physical) it increased from a 5,06 to a 7,75 ( 1,6 7 sd). In the third domain (level of independence) it can be observed an increase from 7,89 to 9,31 (0,96 sd), in the fourth domain (social relations) it increases from 6,11 to 8,38 (1,85 sd), in the fifth domain (environment) from 6,67 to 8,25 (0,71 sd), in the second assessment in the domain (spirituality) it increases from 6,00 to 8,25 (1,91 sd).
Discussion: Several studies assert how a significant frequency of anxiety, depression and low quality of life affect patients with breast cancer. This study shows that a transpersonal psychotherapy of a group is effective on quality of life, anxiety and depression.
Conclusions: a psychotherapeutic approach of a group with transpersonal model can improve in a satisfactory manner the various aspects of quality of life in patients with breast cancer, reducing symptoms such as anxiety and depression
Evaluation of the nociceptive system with laser evoked potential in Parkinson’s Disease
No full textAlthough several studies reported an altered nociception system in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients, it is still not clear whether the impairment is at central or peripheral level. We studied twenty PD patients by using a neurophysiological approach, the Laser Evoked Potentials (LEPs), which allows the non-invasive exploration of pain pathways. Our findings show that PD patients have decreased amplitude of the N2/P2 complex, thus suggesting an abnormal encoding of the nociceptive stimuli at the central level. Further studies need to be fostered in order to better evaluate the characteristic of pain and nociceptive processing in PD patients
Le tesi di dottorato in Open Access
No full textIntervento presentato durante il Convegno: Le nuove frontiere nella comunicazione scientifica. I cinque anni di MJCP - Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. I traguardi di una Rivista Accademica Open Access.
Aula B- Palazzo dei Congressi- A.O.U. "G. Martino"- 22 febbraio 201
Riviste ad Accesso Aperto: linee guida CRUI - Commissione Biblioteche Gruppo Open Access 2009
No full textIntervento presentato durante il Convegno: Le nuove frontiere nella comunicazione scientifica. I cinque anni di MJCP - Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. I traguardi di una Rivista Accademica Open Access. Aula B- Palazzo dei Congressi- A.O.U. "G. Martino"- 22 febbraio 201
Transpersonal medicine and spirituality in end of life cancer care
No full textTranspersonal medicine is a new approach to medicine that use a new paradigm and also non-ordinary states of consciousness and peak experiences. Transpersonal means to go over the boundary, beyond the personal level including the spiritual or transpersonal dimension. End of life care is a special field where sufferance is extreme and verbal approach is limited or ineffective or inapplicable. The experience of death is dramatic for patients, familiars and sanitary, involving all aspects of life. Special care should be offered to the dying person, prioritizing, recapitulating, reorienting towards new meanings, especially about transcendence needs. The classic Maslow need pyramid, in hospice cancer patients, is completely inverted, when symptoms are adequately controlled. The death preparation is complex and needs a specific preparation of the therapist, who has to access non-ordinary states of consciousness and peak experiences, to drive patient by resonance and empathy in the uncertainty of death. A clinical case is described. In conclusions verbal interventions are frequently inapplicable in dying patients and transpersonal medicine, in non-ordinary state of consciousness, are useful. Treatment with specific transpersonal intervention allows patients to approach death with better quality of death and to live quietly the experience of dying
Agatino Santoro (1934-2017)
No full textAgatino (Tino) Santoro, Socio Emerito dell’Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, è mancato il 25 gennaio del 2017.
Professore Emerito di Anatomia Umana Normale era nato il 22 giugno del 1934 a Messina presso il cui Ateneo ha percorso tutti i gradi della carriera scientifica
I siciliani e la neurochirurgia del passato
No full textIl presente studio storico è volto ad indagare i contributi apportati da Autori Siciliani alla nascita ed allo sviluppo della Neurochirurgia in Italia: è stata eseguita un’ampia revisione della letteratura che ha permesso di reperire 312 pubblicazioni di 88 Autori in un periodo che l’Autore ha ritenuto di circoscrivere dalla metà del XIX secolo (quando cominciarono ad essere frequenti le craniectomie soprattutto per lesioni traumatiche) alla metà del XX secolo (quando la Neurochirurgia Italiana divenne branca chirurgica autonoma, segnata dalla costituzione, nel 1948, della Società Italiana di Neurochirurgia). In tutte i periodi storici esaminati gli Autori Siciliani, operanti nell’isola o in altre sedi, hanno contribuito in modo significativo. Di rilievo, soprattutto, il ruolo svolto alla fine dell’800 da due autentici pionieri: Antonino D’Antona, nativo di Riesi (CL) e clinico chirurgo a Napoli, e Francesco Durante, nativo di Letojanni (ME) e clinico chirurgo a Roma; quest’ultimo è universalmente celebrato per essere stato il primo ad asportare con successo, nel 1884, un tumore endocranico in una donna a lungo sopravvissuta. Nel lavoro vengono citati tanti altri Autori tra i quali qui va comunque menzionato Felice Visalli, nativo di Monforte S. Giorgio (ME), che fu tra i nove fondatori della Società Italiana di Neurochirurgia e che a metà del ‘900 vantava una larghissima esperienza operatoria e che fu autore di una vasta produzione scientific