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The Transmission of Birgittine and Catherinian Works within the Mystical Tradition: Exchanges, Cross-Readings, Connections
No full textThis chapter aims to trace the role of Catherine of Siena and Birgitta of Sweden within the Observant reform. After having described the particular modes of the transmission of their mystical works, i.e. respectively the Dialogo and the Revelations, the author focuses on some significant manuscripts from the Italian peninsula and on a few key-figures, both men and women—Alfonso Pecha of Jaén, Cristoforo di Gano Guidini, Tommaso da Siena, Chiara Gambacorta, the Birgittine nuns of Paradiso in Florence and Syon in England and others— in order to demonstrate that there were a fluid context of exchanges between Birgittine and Catherinian circles
Neuropsychological, medical and rehabilitative management of persons with multiple sclerosis
No full textMultiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic and disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system (CNS). The symptoms, progression, and severity of the disease are unpredictable and vary from one person to another. Major symptoms include fatigue, sensory-motor (e.g., visual disturbance, spasticity, locomotion), cognitive (e.g., decreased information processing speed, impaired memory), and psychiatric problems (e.g., depression). Although the etiology is unknown, MS is thought to be an autoimmune disease triggered by a viral or other infectious agent in genetically susceptible individuals. The CNS target of the disease is myelin, although it is now known that other aspects of the CNS such as axonal and gray matter regions are also involved
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