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Vierzehn echte Kriminalfälle mit Befragung bei Polizei oder Gericht: inquisitorische Hexen-Folterung, Kindesmisshandlung, Mord, Drogenhandel, angebliche Vergewaltigung, Menschenversuche eines NS-Arztes, Anders Breivik, Guantanamo. Einblicke in die Denkweise von Tätern und manipulative Gesprächstechnik. - Rezension : Zusammenhanglos nebeneinander stehen 14 sehr verschiedene polizeiliche und gerichtliche Befragungen - von Inquisitions-Folterung einer jungen Frau als Hexe im 15. Jh. über Fälle von Kindesmisshandlung, Partnermord, Sexualmord, Serienmord, Drogenhandel,htm

In the years 1893 to 1897, Eugenie Rosenberger accompanied her husband, a sailing ship captain, on four journeys from European ports to the Irrawaddy delta in Burma (Myanmar). It was the age of the "rice voyages" with sailing ships, which were facing increasing competition in rice transport from the faster steamers. After her last journey, Rosenberger consolidated her diaries and letters and, in 1899, published her book Auf Großer Fahrt. It would be­come a bestseller. Rosenberger's descriptions of the ports of Bassein (Pathein) and Rangoon
(Yangon) inspired the author of this article to illustrate her literary images with historical photos as well as many he took on the Irawaddy himself in 1988. The text outlines the political and economic situation in Burma in the 1890s. The author describes the water vehicles mentioned by Rosenberger and explains why the water world on the Irawaddy, which he experienced
first­hand in 1988, is comparable to that of the nineteenth century. The con­cluding section sketches the political and economic history of Burma as well as its economic downfall, as a result of which ancient Asia was still quite di­scernible there in many places in 1988 - much in contrast to the neighbour­ing countries.

"Tausende von deutschsprachigen jungen Männern verließen im 17. Jahrhundert ihre Heimat und traten, meist als Soldaten, in die Dienste der Niederländischen Vereinigten Ostindischen Kompanie. Etwa dreiundzwanzig von ihnen hinterließen Aufzeichnungen in Form einer 'Ostindianischen Reisebeschreibung'. Dieses Material stellt heute eine bemerkenswerte, unabhängige Quelle für die Geschichte der VOC dar. Zahlreiche Einzelbeobachtungen und Tagebucheintragungen erlauben eine Rekonstruktion der Umstände, unter denen vor allem die einfachen Angestellten der Kompanie lebten. Unsere Erkenntnisse aus den offizielleren Dokumenten werden durch die Reiseberichte in vieler Hinsicht ergänzt und bereichert." (Autorenreferat)

Damit das Zusammenleben von Menschen in einem Gemeinwesen funktionieren kann, sind formelle wie auch informelle Regeln nötig. Doch was passiert, wenn Menschen sich aus übergeordneten Gründen nicht (mehr) an Regeln gebunden fühlen, sich darüber hinwegsetzen und die Gemeinschaft damit spalten? Unter anderem am Beispiel der Proteste gegen Corona-Maßnahmen gehen Heidelberger Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Psychologie, Rechts- und Politikwissenschaft den Gründen, den Folgen und dem Ausmaß sogenannter gesellschaftlicher Selbstermächtigung auf den Grund und erörtern mögliche Gegenmaßnahmen.

[EN] Already moderate alcohol consumption has detrimental long-term effects on brain function. However, how alcohol produces its potent addictive effects despite being a weak reinforcer is a poorly understood conundrum that likely hampers the development of successful interventions to limit heavy drinking. In this translational study, we demonstrate widespread increased mean diffusivity in the brain gray matter of chronically drinking humans and rats. These alterations appear soon after drinking initiation in rats, persist into early abstinence in both species, and are associated with a robust decrease in extracellular space tortuosity explained by a microglial reaction. Mathematical modeling of the diffusivity changes unveils an increased spatial reach of extrasynaptically released transmitters like dopamine that may contribute to alcohol's progressively enhanced addictive potency ; This work was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (668863-SyBil-AA) and the ERA-NET NEURON program (FKZ 01EW1112-TRANSALC and PIM2010ERN-00679), as well as the Spanish State Research Agency through the Severo Ochoa Program for Centres of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2017-0723), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (center grant TRR265-B08), and the Czech Science Foundation (GACR; grant no. 16-10214S to L.V.). S.C. and D.M. further acknowledge financial support from the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) and FEDER funds under grant nos. BFU2015-64380-C2-1-R, BFU2015-64380-C2-2-R, and PGC2018-101055-B-I00 and the Generalitat Valenciana through the Prometeo Program (PROMETEO/2019/015). S.C. also acknowledges support of the Ministerio de Sanidad, Servicios Sociales e Igualdad (#2017I065). E.S. acknowledges financial support from the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV-17-0642). S.D.S. is supported by a NARSAD Young Investigator Grant (grant no. 25104), by the European Research Council through a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (grant no. 749506), and by the ...

Common risk factors for psychiatric and other brain disorders are likely to converge on biological pathways influencing the development and maintenance of brain structure and function across life. Using structural MRI data from 45,615 individuals aged 3–96 years, we demonstrate distinct patterns of apparent brain aging in several brain disorders and reveal genetic pleiotropy between apparent brain aging in healthy individuals and common brain disorders. ; The author list between I.A. and M.Z. is in alphabetic order. The authors were funded by the Research Council of Norway (276082 LifespanHealth (T.K.), 213837 (O.A.A), 223273 NORMENT (O.A.A.), 204966 (L.T.W.), 229129 (O.A.A.), 249795 (L.T.W.), 273345 (L.T.W.) and 283798 SYNSCHIZ (O.A.A.)), the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority (2013-123 (O.A.A.), 2014-097 (L.T.W.), 2015-073 (L.T.W.) and 2016083 (L.T.W.)), Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen (SKGJ-MED-008), the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (ERC Starting Grant, Grant agreement No. 802998 BRAINMINT (L.T.W.)), NVIDIA Corporation GPU Grant (T.K.), and the European Commission 7th Framework Programme (602450, IMAGEMEND (A.M.-L.)). ; acceptedVersion