INTERSTICE. Encounters between artists, children and educators. Thoughts in-between the arts and education

INTERSTICE is an Erasmus+ project developed by universities, artists and cultural settings from Catalonia, United Kingdom, Italy, and Norway to promote spaces of encounter between educators, artists, and children, to improve our learning processes and to build a pedagogy of co-creation through the arts. This is the main product of INTERSTICE project, a collaborative book where project partners share the key ingredients that we think are necessary to build creative approaches to learning

When less is more - Implicit preference for incomplete bodies in xenomelia

Individuals with xenomelia identify with an amputated rather than with their physically complete, healthy body. They often mimic amputees and show a strong admiration of and sexual attraction towards them. Here we investigated for the first time empirically whether such unusual preference for amputated bodies is present also on an implicit level. Using the well-validated Implicit Association Test we show that individuals with xenomelia manifested a stronger implicit and explicit preference for amputated bodies than a normally-limbed control group and a group of involuntary amputees did. Interestingly, the two latter groups did not differ in their implicit and explicit preference for complete versus amputated bodies. These findings are an important step in understanding how deeply rooted attitudes about a socially normative body appearance may be influenced by a developmentally disordered experience of one's own bodily self. We conclude that this is the first behavioral evidence demonstrating a conflict of self-identification on an implicit level and this enriches current understandings of xenomelia as a primarily neurological disorder

Chirurgia del torace

Dedicato agli studenti e agli specializzandi dei primi anni. Si è cercato di trasmettere al lettore sia le nozioni di biologia e fisopatologia che sono alla base della moderna pratica chirurgica sia un quadro, il più completo possibile della diagnostica, della clinica e della tecnic