Childhood, severed heads, and the uncanny: Freudian precursors by Shuttleworth, S

“…Drawing on literary texts from Robert Southey, Charles Kingsley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Frances Power Cobbe, and the art of John William Waterhouse, it explores how the ancient oracular figure of the teraph, interpreted, rather macabrely, as the severed head of a child, became an embodiment of both the workings of the unconscious mind and the uncanny in nineteenth-century culture, and the locus of cultural and social anxieties projected onto the figure of the child.…”

Cabezas cortadas y otros espectáculos: violencia, patetismo y truculencia en el teatro de Calderón by Ignacio Arellano

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Iban art sexual selection and severed heads : weaving, sculpture, tattooing and other arts of the Iban of Borneo / by 411181 Heppell, Michael, Limbang Anak Melaka, Enyan Usen

Julia Kristeva’s The Severed Head by Pleshette DeArmitt

“…This paper was presented as part of a roundtable on Kristeva’s The Severed Head at the inaugural meeting of the Kristeva Circle on October 13, 2012.…”
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Levodopa treatment in severe head injury by Deepak Agrawal, AK Mahapatra

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Management of Pediatric Severe Head Trauma by Onal C

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Balance of cytokines in patients with severe head injury by K. V. Shevchenko, V. A. Chetvertnykh, Yu. I. Kravtsov

“…Dynamic study of the blood levels of cytokines (interleukins IL-1β, IL-6, IL-1O and TNFalfa) was carried out in 40 patients with different outcomes of acute severe head injury. It was shown that severe head trauma resulted in the disbalance of pro- and antiinflammatory cytokines. …”
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The secondary brainstem lesion caused by severe head trauma by A. M. Shamayev

“… The traumatic brainstem lesion was determined in 49 injured patients with severe head trauma. The prophylaxis and diagnostics of dislocation prevent occurrence of secondary brainstem lesion.…”
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Factors affecting mortality in Pediatric Severe Head Injury by Pınar Özışık, Harun Demirci, Emel Uyar, Oktay Perk, Seçil Akay, İrem Bozkurt, Serhan Özcan

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Kristeva's Severed Head in Iraq: Antoon’s The Corpse Washer by Frances L. Restuccia

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Znaczenie odciętych głów w obrzędowości pogańskiej wczesnośredniowiecznych Słowian zachodnich<br>The Meaning of Severed Heads in Ritualism of Early Medieval Western Slavs</br> by Kamil Kajkowski

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Mid arm muscle circumference monitoring in severe head injury by SS Dhandapani, D Manju, M Agarwal, A Chutani, BS Sharma, AK Mahapatra

“…With an aim to assess the nutritional status in patients of severe head injury with midarm muscle circumference (MAMC) monitoring, the factors associated, and the prognostic significance with respect to functional outcome, 114 patients in age group 20-60, admitted within 24 hours of severe head injury (SHI), with GCS 4-8, and with no serious systemic disorder were enrolled for the study. …”
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The Effects of Early Tracheostomy on Outcomes of Patients with Severe Head Injury by Masih Saboori, Mohammad Esmaili Taramsari, Behnam Hosseini

“…BAckground: This study was designed to compare the length of ICU and hospital stay, need to ventilation support, and nosocomial pneumonia, in sever head injury patients, between early and late tracheostomy. …”
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Successful Decompressive Craniectomy in a Child with Severe Head Trauma by Gökçen Özçifçi, Ayşe Berna Anıl, Neslihan Zengin, Fulya Kamit Can, Dilek Arslan, Ümüt Altuğ, Fatih Durak

“…Decompressive craniectomy should be considered without delay in children with severe head trauma with neurological deterioration or intracranial pressure elevation refractory to medical treatment and in those with herniation.…”
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One-year results in elderly patients with severe head injury by Ming-Hsiu Lin, Lee-Jen Wu Suen, Chia-Hao Chang, Tsung-Chih Tsai, Chih-Cheng Lu

“…Background: This study explored the outcome of older adults with severe head injury after 1-year follow-up. Materials and Methods: Data were collected from the hospital medical information system. …”
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Estimation of Some Trace Elements in Severe Head Injured Patients by Nadhia Kh. Al-Adhami, Walid W. H. Al-Rawi, Abdulla Kh. Ibrahem

“…Objectives: Severe head injury is the most devastating neurosurgical condition and it is only next to cancers as the leading cause of death in developed countries. …”
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Book Review: Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Matthew R McLennan

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Association between Hyperglycaemia with Neurological Outcomes Following Severe Head Trauma by Javaher Khajavikhan, Aminolah Vasigh, Taleb Kokhazade, Ali Khani

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Cranioplasty as a surrogate marker for excellent outcome in severe head injury by Shejoy P Joshua, Deepak Agrawal, GD Satyarthee, D Gupta, S Sinha

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Severe head injuries and intracranial pressure monitoring outcome in Southern Iran by Majid Reza Farrokhi, Mousa Taghipour

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