Better or worse than the original

Better or worse than expected? Aging, learning, and the ERN.

This study examined age differences in error processing and reinforcement learning. We were interested in whether the electrophysiological correlates of error processing, the error-related negativity (ERN) and the feedback-related negativity (FRN), reflect learning-related changes in younger and older adults. To do so, we applied a probabilistic learning task in which we manipulated the validit...

Retirement: for better or worse?

enjoyed much more than work. “I’m so busy I don’t know how I had time to work!” Others are adrift. One of my physician colleagues, recently retired due to illness, and still adjusting, reported that he met another retired doctor, who summed up his retirement this way: “I used to be important.” Retirement and disability are quite different but may overlap. The person who retires because of a dis...

For Better or Worse ? Minireview

embryonic stem (ES) cells (as well as the numerous tools Over the past several years, the scientific and popular available for studying tumor development in the mouse), press has been bubbling over with experimental findings there are two important differences between mice and that would seem to be setting the stage for a magic humans regarding telomeres and telomerase regulation. bullet agains...

Is the NHS getting better or worse?

Autism spectrum disorders in the DSM-V: better or worse than the DSM-IV?

The DSM-V-committee has recently published proposed diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders. We examine these criteria in some detail. We believe that the DSM-committee has overlooked a number of important issues, including social imagination, diagnosis in infancy and adulthood, and the possibility that girls and women with autism may continue to go unrecognised or misdiagnosed under ...