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SummaryEpileptic seizures mainly develop during slow-wave sleep. Our experiments, using multi-site, extra- and intracellular recordings, show a transformation without discontinuity from sleep patterns to seizures. The cerebral cortex is the minimal substrate of paroxysms with spike-wave complexes at ~3 Hz. Simultaneously, thalamocortical neurons are steadily inhibited and cannot relay signals from the outside world to cortex. This may explain the unconsciousness during certain types of epilepsy.
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With an aim of bringing matters up to date regarding concepts of ethics and ideology, this paper is intended as an analysis of a specific aspect of health, namely mental health prevention and promotion, according to a specific type of discourse focusing on public and preventive health that is current in popular magazine articles. The authors aim to determine whether this discourse carries an ethical intention or conversely, favours an ideology aiming toward the medicalization of life. The next step will be to verify whether there is a shift from ethics, which fosters reflection of the subject, based on the values of the latter, toward ideology, which sets standards, principles and rules. The research has been divided into three sections. A review of the scientific and governmental literature is made, in order to present the development of public and preventive mental health. Then it shall be seen how ethics and ideology fit within the discourse. Next, the magazines catalogued will be assessed, based on precise criteria, and the articles analysed will be examined, to describe their intent and to demonstrate the shift from ethics to an ideology favouring a social medicalization.