Are you practicing dogma?

Conducting forensic examinations on the road: are you practicing your profession without a license?

Psychiatrists and other mental health professionals retained in civil or criminal litigation are frequently required to travel to a state in which they are not licensed to perform assessments and offer testimony. Adverse professional and legal consequences may await the unwary peripatetic forensic expert. Failure to address local practice requirements may result in disqualification to testify a...

Recognition Memory: Can You Teach an Old Dogma New Tricks?

Familiarity and recollection are components of recognition memory. Whether these underlie two separate processes or a single process differing only in memory strength is a matter of continued debate. In this issue of Neuron, Haskins et al. provide further evidence in support of a dual-process perspective, whereas Shrager et al. provide evidence supporting a single-process viewpoint.

Practicing epidemiology: how competent are we?

You Are What You Eat ?

eat’, both in terms of portions and composition. When we think of this axiom, we conjure visions of ample food portions, rich in energy, high in fat, and associated with persons of equally ample body size proportions and body fat composition. However, these relationships are more complex than they may appear at first glance. The physical, physiological and behavioural manifestation of the compl...

You are what you eat.

Wernicke encephalopathy consists of a triad of ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and altered mental status. It is caused by thiamine deficiency and although it is commonly seen in alcoholics, patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity could be a new group of patients to watch for. Florid papilloedema and optic neuropathy are not commonly seen but are still consistent with the diagnosi...