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    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed

    "Forced Behavior" as epileptic seizure: Description of a patient with neuronal migration disorder

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    Forced thinking and behavior can be true epileptic phenomena. Forced thinking, characterized by abrupt intrusion of thoughts, could be produced by an epileptic discharge in frontal or temporal lobes Epileptic forced thinking appears distinct from obsessive thoughts and compulsive urges. A male patient, teacher of optic pathophysiology, from the age of 40 showed short (2-3 minutes) episodes, characterized by a compulsive urge to speak technically as he would in his job. At the age of 43 he showed two nocturnal generalized seizures. An EEG was performed and it showed intercritical and critical anomalies on the left anterior regions. A magnetic resonance (MR) showed the presence of a neuronal migration disorder (sub-ependimal cotrical nodular heterotopia). Soon after, a therapy with carbamazepine 800 mg/die was started and all types of paroxystical manifestations disappeared. This case is interesting and intriguing because of the overlapping of epilepsy, forced behavior and neuronal migration disorders. Considering the anatomic systems involved in epilepsy and obsessive-compulsive disorder, we will discuss the differences and the common features of both disturbances
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