Cholinergic input to, and cholinergic mechanisms within the lower lumbar (L6) and upper sacral (S1) spinal cord of rat may influence neuronal excitability and afferent transmission (Thor et al, 2000) and may provide the environment necessary for appropriate central nervous system control of bladder and bowel function. It is unclear, however, if cholinergic terminals and receptors are present in the L6 & S1 spinal segments of rat and when this may develop. Cholinergic mechanisms have been shown to alter sensory afferent transmission, enhance motoneuron excitability, induce plateau potentials via non-linear membrane properties in motoneurons and reveal oscillations in locomotor-related interneurons. The enhanced activity of sphincter motoneurons was attributed to non-linear properties during the continence phase of distention-evoked voiding in the decerebrate cat (Paroschy & Shefchyk, 2000). Candidate neurotransmitters inducing non-linear properties in cat sphincter motoneurons are 5-HT (Paroschy & Shefchyk, 2000) and acetylcholine via motoneuron axon collaterals (Sasaki, 1994) and other spinal sources. We have established using the antibody to the vesicular acetylcholine transporter (VAChT) that cholinergic terminals are present on ventrolateral Onuf (VLO), dorsomedial Onuf (DMO) motoneurons and parasympathetic preganglionic motoneurons (PGN) in the L6 and S1 rat spinal cord segments. Muscarinic receptor (M2), nicotinic-α4 and α7 receptor subunit immunoreactivity was also present on Onuf motoneurons and in regions dorsal to the PGN. One source of the cholinergic puncta on Onuf motoneurons may be from motoneuron axon collaterals which we observed on a postnatal day 15 VLO motoneuron. Cholinergic terminals were observed on vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-immunoreactive (VIP) afferents, interneurons in the intermediolateral (IML) region and perhaps on other afferents in the lateral and medial collateral pathway of L6 and S1 spinal segments. In the ventral horn, the cholinergic puncta and receptors appear to have a mature distribution around two weeks postnatal and the cholinergic terminals appeared to have a mature distribution in the IML region by three weeks postnatal. Using whole cell patch clamp recording techniques and thick slices of the L6 and S1 rat spinal cord, we observed excitatory responses of ventral horn neurons and motoneurons to carbachol (10-50 μM), a non-specific cholinergic agonist. Ventral horn neurons (postnatal day 8- 16) exhibited prolonged firing and prolonged depolarizations (plateau potentials) beyond the duration of the applied excitatory input from cholinergic (n=6/33) and other (n= 4/37) neurotransmitter systems. In a selection of the neurons with plateau potentials, the L-type calcium current played a role in the plateau production (n=5/5) and low frequency oscillations (n=2/2) as revealed by nifedipine. Postnatally, the voiding reflex changes from a perineal-evoked reflex, to the adult bladder-bladder reflex. Cholinergic input may be responsible in part for the bursting activity of the external urethral sphincter and the activation of the bladder, which is required for complete voiding reflexes in the adult rat. Plateau potentials and enhanced excitability due to cholinergic mechanisms could render inessential a constant excitatory drive that is required in the perineal-evoked voiding reflex in the neonatal rat and may underlie changes in the voiding reflexes that occur during postnatal development.

Die Belastungsinkontinenz des Mannes ist eine häufige Komplikation der radikalen Prostatovesikulektomie. Abgewandelte Operationstechniken und Rekonstruktions-verfahren führen zu verbesserten postoperativen Kontinenzraten und weisen auf die Bedeutung einzelner Komponenten am urethralen Verschlussmechanismus hin. Im Vergleich zum weiblichen ist der männliche Harnkontinenzmechanismus nur ansatzweise verstanden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die am urethralen Verschluss beteiligten Komponenten und ihre Verbindungen zu angrenzenden Strukturen makroskopisch und mikroskopisch analysiert und auf ihre funktionelle Bedeutung untersucht. Zehn konservierte Leichname wurden für Untersuchungen des männlichen Urogenitaltraktes genutzt, aus drei Becken wurden Organpakete für die Erstellung von mikroskopischen Schnittpräparaten entnommen. Die histologischen Untersuchungen konnten zeigen, dass die Form des Musculus sphincter urethrae externus im Transversalschnitt von der Schnitthöhe abhängig ist. Seine Fasern strahlen in die Faszie des Musculus levator ani ein. Auch die Fasern des Corpus perineale inserieren in die Faszie dieses Muskels. Anhand dieser Ergebnisse wird die zentrale Rolle des Musculus levator ani im männlichen Harnkontinenzapparat deutlich. Der eigentliche Verschlussdruck wird demnach durch den Musculus levator ani aufgebaut und durch das Corpus perineale von dorsal auf die Urethra übertragen. Die Aufgabe des Musculus sphincter urethrae externus wird nicht als primär aktiv, sondern als dynamisches Widerlager für die membranöse Urethra beschrieben. Außerdem geht die Arbeit auf die noch wenig erforschte Mediatorfunktion der glatten Muskulatur im männlichen Urogenitaltrakt ein. Diese Ergebnisse präzisieren die Vorstellung des Kontinenzmechanismus des Mannes als Zusammenspiel von unterschiedlichen Komponenten und geben Anlass, aktuelle Standardtechniken der Beckenchirurgie zu überdenken und den Fokus auf schonende bzw. rekonstruktive Operationsverfahren zu richten.:Inhaltsverzeichnis Seite Bibliographische Beschreibung……………………………….………........…………… 3 Inhaltsverzeichnis………………………………………………………….........………….. 4 Verzeichnis der Abkürzungen…………………………………….…….......…………… 7 Verzeichnis der Abbildungen……………………………………….…….......…………. 8 Verzeichnis der Tabellen…………………………………………….…………........……. 9 1 Einleitung……………………………………………………….………...........………. 10 1.1 Epidemiologie der Harninkontinenz………………………….…...…………… 10 1.2 Stellenwert der radikalen Prostatektomie im Spektrum der operativen Therapieverfahren zur Behandlung des Prostatakarzinoms…............... 11 1.3 Protektion und Rekonstruktion von Kontinenzstrukturen....…..... 13 1.4 Zielstellung der Arbeit……………………………………………………....…...... 15 2 Material und Methoden……………………………………………………........…. 16 2.1 Instrumentarium und Reagenzien…………………………………………….. 16 2.2 Körperspender…………………………………………………………….......…....... 16 2.3 Konservierung…………………………………………………………....….......…... 16 2.4 Makroskopische Darstellung………………………………………………....…... 17 2.5 Gewebeentnahme…………………………….................................…..... 19 2.6 Fixation und Einbettung…...................................………………….... 20 2.7 Färbung………………………………………………………….…………...........……. 21 2.8 Histologische Auswertung…………………………………....…………………... 22 3 Ergebnisse……………………………………………............………………………… 23 3.1 Makroskopie………………………………………………………..........…………….. 23 3.1.1 Musculus sphincter urethrae externus – ein fächerförmiger Muskel mit ausgeprägter Vaskularisierung......................................... 23 3.1.2 Corpus perineale…...........................................…………....... 26 3.1.3 Musculus levator ani – Bestandteil der ventralen Suspension des Harnkontinenzorgans………………………………………...............…………… 26 3.2 Mikroskopie……………………………………………………….........…………....... 28 3.2.1 Musculus sphincter urethrae externus und Corpus perineale inserieren im Musculus levator ani und lateralen Venenplexus…...….… 28 3.2.2 Form und Verlauf des Musculus sphincter urethrae externus........………........................................................................... 32 3.2.3 Glatte Muskulatur als dynamische Verankerung des Harnkontinenzorgans......................................................... 34 4 Diskussion…………………………………………...........………………………….... 37 4.1 Struktur und Form des Musculus sphincter urethrae externus…. 37 4.2 Verankerung des Musculus sphincter urethrae externus …......... 39 4.3 Kontroverse Ansichten zum Corpus perineale und seiner Verankerung….................................................................................. 41 4.4 Glattmuskuläre Komponenten im männlichen Kontinenzsystem.43 4.5 Vorstellungen zum männlichen Harnkontinenzmechanismus…… 44 4.7 Experimentelle Arbeiten zum Harnkontinenzorgan im Vergleich..48 4.8 Auswirkungen der Ergebnisse auf die Praxis…………………......……… 53 5 Zusammenfassung……………………………………………………........…….… 55 Anhang…………………………………………………………………............……………….. 59 Erklärung über die eigenständige Abfassung der Arbeit……….......………. 64 Lebenslauf…………………………………………………………………………...........….... 65 Danksagung………………………………………………………………...........……………. 66 Literaturverzeichnis………………………………………………........………………...... 67

Fragestellung: Die Trichterbildung der proximalen Urethra ist ein typischer, aber nicht beweisender Befund bei Frauen mit Streßharninkontinenz. In der Studie wurde geprüft , ob spezifische pathomorphologische Veränderungen des Kontinenzkontrollsystems bei Frauen mit Trichterbildung gehäuft vorkommen und ob der Trichterbildung der Urethra ein diagnostischer Aussagewert zukommt. Methoden: 54 Frauen (mittleres Alter 52±11 Jahre) mit einer klinisch und urodynamisch gesicherten Streßharninkontinenz und ohne vorhergehende urogynäkologische Operationen wurden standardisiert kernspintomographisch (Protonendichte. Gewichtete Aufnahmen, transversale Schnittebene in Höhe der proximalen Urethra) untersucht. Folgende pathomorphologische Veränderungen des Strßharnkontinenzkontrollsystems wurden unterschieden: Urethradefekte, Defekte des M. levator ani und Defekte der Fascia endopelvina. Die Trichterbildung der Urethra wurde beim Pressen mit Hilfe der Introitussonographie diagnostiziert. Ergebnisse: Im Untersuchungskollektiv fanden sich 32 Frauen mit und 22 Frauen ohne Trichterbildung der Urethra. Streßharninkontinenz in Kombination mit einer Trichterbildung war signifikant vermehrt assoziiert mit einer Strukturveränderung des M. levator ani im MRT-Bild (erhöhte Signalintensität) und einem introitussonographisch diagnostizierten vertikalen Deszensus. Defekte der Urethralmuskulatur und der endopelvinen Faszie wurden nicht vermehrt gefunden. Schlußfolgerungen: Die Trichterbildung der Urethra reflektiert eine funktionellen Zustand der Urethra, welcher durch multifunktionelle pathomorphologische Veränderungen des Sreßharnkontinenzkontrollsystems bedingt ist. Die Diagnose Trichterbildung der Urethra besitzt keine diagnostische Relevanz. / Aims of study: Funneling of the proximal urethra is a typical ultrasound finding in stress urinary incontinence but no definitive proof. The study was performed to determine whether women with funneling of the urethra show specific pathomorphologic changes of the continence control system at MR imaging and whether the demonstration of urethral funneling has any diagnostic relevance. Methods: Fifty-four women (mean age 52±11 years) with clinically and urodynamically proven stress urinary incontinence without prior urogynecologic surgery underwent standardized MR imaging (proton-density-weighted sequence, transverse section orientation at the level of the proximal urethra). The following pathomorphologic changes of the stress urinary continence control system were distinguished: urethral defects, defects of levator ani muscle and defects of endopelvic fascia. Funneling of the urethra was confirmed by introital ultrasound during pressing. Results: In the study group were 32 women with and 22 woman without urethral funnelling. Stress urinary incontinence in combination with funneling of the urethra was found to be associated with a significant increase in structural changes of the levator muscle at MR imaging (increased signal intensity) and vertical prolapse at ultrasound. Defects of urethral muscles and defects of endopelvic fascia were not found to be increased. Conclusions: Funneling of the urethra reflects a functional condition of the urethra caused by multifunctional pathomorphologic changes of the stress continence control system. The demonstration of urethral funneling has no any diagnostic relevance.

La sexualité, pourtant base de la reproduction humaine, n’a intéressé les démographes que comme facteur ou déterminant indirect de la fécondité (principalement en Afrique Centrale). L’intérêt des chercheurs en sciences sociales pour des études sur la sexualité est né avec l’émergence du SIDA dans la perspective des comportements sexuels à risque d’IST/VIH/SIDA. Or, cette perspective restreint le champ d’investigation et limite la connaissance, car la sexualité va au-delà des comportements sexuels à risque. Pour nous rendre compte des évolutions ou changements intervenus dans le vécu de la sexualité des jeunes, nous avons mené une enquête par sondage auprès de 2000 jeunes célibataires, scolarisés et non scolarisés, âgés de 15-24 ans dans la ville de Kinshasa. Cette enquête quantitative a été complétée par 19 entretiens approfondis auprès des jeunes filles et garçons, 3 focus groups, des entretiens avec des responsables de différents services et, structures administratifs et de santé qui encadrent les jeunes, … L’étude a cherché à répondre à la question principale de savoir : Comment les jeunes célibataires de Kinshasa vivent-ils leur activité sexuelle et comment se protègent-ils contre les risques d’IST/VIH lors de cette sexualité ? Plus concrètement, l’étude a permis de caractériser cette sexualité de ces jeunes en termes d’intensité et de déterminants. Elle a également appréhendé les stratégies des jeunes en ce qui concerne la protection des rapports sexuels contre le risque d’IST/VIH auquel ils s’exposent. A cause de leur appartenance aux ethnies et religions dont les normes et valeurs interdisent l’activité sexuelle préconjugale, les jeunes kinois sont massivement opposés à la sexualité préconjugale. Cette opposition se révèle de façade, car non seulement la majorité est sexuellement active, mais surtout s’initie précocement. Près de 70 % des filles comme des garçons étaient déjà sexuellement actifs au moment de l’enquête et 1 jeune sur 2 s’était initié avant l’âge de 16,7 ans pour les filles et de 16,9 ans pour les garçons. Leurs croyances religieuses retardent l’initiation sexuelle, tandis que l’appartenance à un ménage aisé facilite l’adoption des comportements à moindres risques. Dès qu’ils commencent leur activité sexuelle, celle-ci devient, non seulement quasiment régulière (surtout chez les jeunes qui sont moins exposés aux informations sur la Santé de la Reproduction), mais aussi multipartenaire. Les jeunes kinois changent de temps en temps de partenaires qu’ils recrutent principalement dans le cercle de pairs. Du fait d’appartenir au même cercle, les jeunes considèrent leurs partenaires comme étant habituels et n’utilisent le condom qu’avec un partenaire « occasionnel » ou lors d’un rapport sexuel rémunéré, une façon pour eux d’appliquer le principe de la stratégie ABC de la lutte contre le sida qui conseille l’utilisation du préservatif avec des partenaires occasionnels. En plus, la plupart des jeunes observent presque toujours une période de continence d’au moins un mois avant d’avoir des rapports sexuels avec leurs nouveaux partenaires. En observant cette période, les jeunes se considèrent davantage comme des partenaires habituels et, même sans avoir procédé préalablement au test sérologique, ils passent à l’acte sans préservatif, s’estimant toujours moins exposés au risque d’IST/VIH. Malgré leur intense activité sexuelle, d’une part, et leur bonne mise en application des conseils pour une sexualité à moindres risques dans leurs pratiques, toutes les structures éducatives (famille, école, église) ne conseillent aux jeunes que l’abstinence sexuelle. Cette inadéquation entre les besoins des jeunes et l’éducation sexuelle offerte mérite d’être soulignée afin d’attirer l’attention des parents et des décideurs sur les dangers que courent les jeunes s’ils ne sont plus correctement accompagnés dans le vécu de leur sexualité.

Submitted by DULCEGLEIKA VILLAS BÔAS SARTORI null (dulcegleikasartori@yahoo.com.br) on 2016-04-14T19:52:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 CORRELAÇÃO ENTRE A FORÇA MUSCULAR DO ASSOALHO PÉLVICO E STATUS HORMONAL DA VAGINA EM MULHERES CONTINENTES.pdf: 772099 bytes, checksum: 892c550ddbdc0f4bbf49a4e2dfdf2d2e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Paula Grisoto (grisotoana@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-04-15T19:46:25Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 sartori_dvb_dr_bot.pdf: 772099 bytes, checksum: 892c550ddbdc0f4bbf49a4e2dfdf2d2e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-15T19:46:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 sartori_dvb_dr_bot.pdf: 772099 bytes, checksum: 892c550ddbdc0f4bbf49a4e2dfdf2d2e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-01 / Objetivos: Avaliar a correlação entre o status hormonal da vagina e hipermobilidade uretral com a força muscular do AP, nas diferentes faixas etárias em mulheres continentes. Métodos: Foram avaliadas prospectivamente 140 mulheres continentes, divididas em quatro grupos de acordo com a faixa etária, G1 (n = 34) de 30 a 40 anos, G2 (n = 38) de 41 a 50 anos, G3 (n =35) de 51 a 60 anos e G4 (n= 33) acima de 60 anos. Os seguintes parâmetros foram avaliados: dados demográficos utilizando questionário clinico; hipermobilidade do colo vesical usando o teste do cotonete; trofismo vaginal com exame ginecológico; status hormonal da vagina com a colpocitologia; força muscular do AP, utilizando a perineometria e eletroneuromiografia (EMG). Resultados: Não houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre a força muscular do AP, características demográficas, trofismo vaginal e hipermobilidade do colo vesical nos diferentes grupos (p>0,05). Foi encontrado um maior número de mulheres atróficas acima de 60 anos. Houve uma excelente concordância no trofismo vaginal avaliado pelo exame ginecológico e colpocitologia (Kappa = 0,888). Porém observamos que as mulheres com hipermobilidade apresentavam menor força muscular em relação às mulheres sem hipermobilidade na EMG. Conclusão: Apesar da atrofia vaginal ser maior nas mulheres acima de 60 anos , não observamos diferença na força muscular do AP durante o processo de envelhecimento fisiológico. Sendo assim, não podemos dizer que o trofismo é o único fator relacionado à força muscular do AP, dificultando a indicação de mulheres para profilaxia. Palavras - chave: continência urinária; força muscular; músculo assoalho pélvico; status hormonal; prolapso; hipermoblidade do colo vesical / Objectives: To assess the correlation between hormonal status and PF muscle strength. Methods: 140 continent women were prospectively evaluated, and divided into four groups according to age: G1 (n = 34) 30-40 years, G2 (n = 38) 41-50 years, G3 (n = 35) 51-60, and G4 (n = 33) older than 60 years. The following parameters were evaluated: demographic data using clinical questionnaire; hypermobility of the bladder neck using the swab test; vaginal trophism by gynecological examination; hormonal status of the vagina by cytology; muscle strength of the PF using perineometer and electromyography (EMG). Results: There was no statistical difference between PF muscle strength, demographic characteristics, vaginal trophism, and hypermobility of the bladder neck in the different groups (p > 0.05). There was a larger number of atrophic women among those over 60 years of age. Vaginal trophism assessed by physical examination was highly consistent with the findings of colpocytology (Kappa = 0.888). We found, however, that women with hypermobility by EMG had less muscle strength as compared to those with no hypermobility. Conclusion: Although vaginal atrophy is more intense in women older than 60 years, no difference was found in muscle strength of the PF during the physiological aging process. As a consequence, it is not possible to state that trophism is the only factor related to PF muscular strength, thus precluding the selection of women who should be referred to prophylaxis. Key-notes: urinary continence; muscle strength; pelvic floor muscles; hormonal status; prolapse; bladder neck hypermobility

Orientador: João Luiz Amaro / Resumo: Objetivos: Avaliar a correlação entre o status hormonal da vagina e hipermobilidade uretral com a força muscular do AP, nas diferentes faixas etárias em mulheres continentes. Métodos: Foram avaliadas prospectivamente 140 mulheres continentes, divididas em quatro grupos de acordo com a faixa etária, G1 (n = 34) de 30 a 40 anos, G2 (n = 38) de 41 a 50 anos, G3 (n =35) de 51 a 60 anos e G4 (n= 33) acima de 60 anos. Os seguintes parâmetros foram avaliados: dados demográficos utilizando questionário clinico; hipermobilidade do colo vesical usando o teste do cotonete; trofismo vaginal com exame ginecológico; status hormonal da vagina com a colpocitologia; força muscular do AP, utilizando a perineometria e eletroneuromiografia (EMG). Resultados: Não houve diferença estatisticamente significativa entre a força muscular do AP, características demográficas, trofismo vaginal e hipermobilidade do colo vesical nos diferentes grupos (p>0,05). Foi encontrado um maior número de mulheres atróficas acima de 60 anos. Houve uma excelente concordância no trofismo vaginal avaliado pelo exame ginecológico e colpocitologia (Kappa = 0,888). Porém observamos que as mulheres com hipermobilidade apresentavam menor força muscular em relação às mulheres sem hipermobilidade na EMG. Conclusão: Apesar da atrofia vaginal ser maior nas mulheres acima de 60 anos , não observamos diferença na força muscular do AP durante o processo de envelhecimento fisiológico. Sendo assim, não podemos dizer que o trofismo é ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Objectives: To assess the correlation between hormonal status and PF muscle strength. Methods: 140 continent women were prospectively evaluated, and divided into four groups according to age: G1 (n = 34) 30-40 years, G2 (n = 38) 41-50 years, G3 (n = 35) 51-60, and G4 (n = 33) older than 60 years. The following parameters were evaluated: demographic data using clinical questionnaire; hypermobility of the bladder neck using the swab test; vaginal trophism by gynecological examination; hormonal status of the vagina by cytology; muscle strength of the PF using perineometer and electromyography (EMG). Results: There was no statistical difference between PF muscle strength, demographic characteristics, vaginal trophism, and hypermobility of the bladder neck in the different groups (p > 0.05). There was a larger number of atrophic women among those over 60 years of age. Vaginal trophism assessed by physical examination was highly consistent with the findings of colpocytology (Kappa = 0.888). We found, however, that women with hypermobility by EMG had less muscle strength as compared to those with no hypermobility. Conclusion: Although vaginal atrophy is more intense in women older than 60 years, no difference was found in muscle strength of the PF during the physiological aging process. As a consequence, it is not possible to state that trophism is the only factor related to PF muscular strength, thus precluding the selection of women who should be referred to prophylaxis. Key-no... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:38:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrea de Davide Ratto Morelli.pdf: 720847 bytes, checksum: f67ae12322be10f9bae642d62c44bd21 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-15 / This study aims to gather information on some types of pathological organizations of the personality, using psychoanalytic knowledge. Several authors underlie it, starting with Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, Wilfred Bion, Herbert Rosenfeld, Hanna Segal and getting to John Steiner, Donald Meltzer, Frances Tustin, Judith Mitrani and James Grotstein, whose works in these areas are discussed more deeply. Efforts are made to understand and identify points of convergence, divergence and/or intersection among concepts like claustrum, psychic retreats, autistic capsules and adhesive pseudo-object relations. Discussion of the importance of continence and the development of schizo paranoid and depressive positions, permeate all the work and are fundamental to the approach of the clinical material presented. Analyst's psychic continence is questioned in face of difficulties as the claustrum seduction, attraction of adhesive pseudo-object relations, embarrassment of tenderness and struggles for dominate or exclusion of the analyst. Facing the difficulties of handling complex defensive systems, such as pathological organizations, confidence in the existence of unconscious need of psychic truth remains encouraging and cherishing, both to continue the trajectory of psychoanalytic exercise, and to achieve the needs of patients / Este estudo tem por objetivo recolher informações sobre alguns tipos de organizações patológicas da personalidade, utilizando conhecimentos psicanalíticos. Vários autores embasam-no partindo de Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, Joan Riviere, Wilfred Bion, Herbert Rosenfeld, Hanna Segal e chegando a John Steiner, Donald Meltzer, Frances Tustin, Judith Mitrani e James Grotstein, cujos trabalhos nessas áreas são discutidos mais profundamente. Esforços são realizados para compreender e identificar pontos de convergência, divergência e/ou intersecção entre conceitos como claustros, refúgios psíquicos, cápsulas autistas e pseudorrelações objetais adesivas. Discussões da importância da continência e da elaboração das posições esquizoparanoides e depressivas perpassam todo o trabalho e são fundamentais para a abordagem do material clínico apresentado. A continência psíquica do analista é questionada em face de dificuldades como a sedução dos claustros e a atratibilidade de pseudorrelações objetais adesivas, o embaraço diante da ternura e lutas por dominar ou excluir o analista. Diante da dificuldade de manejo com sistemas defensivos complexos, como os das organizações patológicas, a confiança na existência da necessidade inconsciente da verdade psíquica permanece estimulante e acalentadora tanto para continuar a trajetória do exercício psicanalítico, quanto para alcançar as necessidades dos pacientes

Background: The best technique of radical prostatectomy – open retropubic versus robot-assisted surgery – is a subject of controversy. Patients and Methods: Between January 1st, 2007 and December 31st, 2011, 2,177 men underwent radical prostatectomy at our department. 252 (12%) cases were laparoscopic robot-assisted, the remainder open retropubic procedures. In Germany, certified prostate cancer centers are required to collect urinary tract-related outcome data after radical prostatectomy using the International Consultation of Incontinence Questionnaire Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms. The questionnaire data were used to compare both surgical approaches concerning the urinary tractrelated outcome 1, 2 and 3 years postoperatively. Results: Neither the voiding score nor the incontinence score or the bother scale sum differed between the two cohorts at any of the measurement times. Conclusions: Concerning continence recovery, in this series, there were no detectable differences between robot-assisted and open radical prostatectomy.

The philosophical literature on akrasia and/or weakness of the will tends to focus on individual actions, removed from their wider socio-political context. This is problematic because actions, when removed from their wider context, can seem absurd or irrational when they may, in fact, be completely rational or, at least, coherent. Much of akrasia's apparent mystery or absurdity is eliminated when people's behaviours are considered within their cultural and political context. I apply theories from the social and behavioural sciences to a particular behaviour in order to show where the philosophical literature on akrasia and/or weakness of the will is insightful and where it is lacking. The problem used as the basis for my analysis is obesity caused by overeating. On the whole, I conclude that our intuitions about agency are unreliable, that we may have good reasons to overeat and/or neglect our health, and that willpower is, to some degree, a matter of luck. / Graduate / 0630 / 0573 / 0422 / felshereeno@aol.com