Bonding Matters

Philosophy matters in brain matters

PURPOSE Although most neuroscientists and physicians would argue against Cartesian dualism, Descartes's version of the psyche/soma divide, which has been controversial since he proposed it in the seventeenth century, continues to haunt contemporary neurological diagnoses through terms such as functional, organic, and psychogenic. Drawing on my own experiences as a person with medically unexplai...

Matters of sex: sex matters.

Despite the popular concept that heart disease preferentially affects the male population, in every year for the past 16 years, cardiovascular disease has killed more women than men.1 Unfortunately, a disparity still exists between men and women in the diagnosis and aggressive treatment of heart disease. The perception that women are relatively protected is reflected by the fact that women are ...

Bonding.

In this paper, the bonding, relative stabilities and local ionic charges occurring in sodium chloride nanotubes are discussed. A new methodology is introduced which employs a linear relationship between nanotube cohesive energies determined via Density Functional Theory (DFT) and weighted-average Madelung Constants (MC(wa)). The slope of the linear plots reveals ionic charges and gives insights...

Halogen bonding, chalcogen bonding, pnictogen bonding, tetrel bonding: origins, current status and discussion.

The role of the closing lecture in a Faraday Discussion is to summarise the contributions made to the Discussion over the course of the meeting and in so doing capture the main themes that have arisen. This article is based upon my Closing Remarks Lecture at the 203rd Faraday Discussion meeting on Halogen Bonding in Supramolecular and Solid State Chemistry, held in Ottawa, Canada, on 10-12th Ju...

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