Challenging glass

A stranger in the looking glass: developing and challenging a hypnotic mirrored-self misidentification delusion.

This article describes a study that used hypnosis to temporarily re-create mirrored-self misidentification, which is the delusional belief that the person one sees in the mirror is a stranger. Following a hypnotic suggestion to see a stranger in the mirror, high hypnotizable subjects described seeing a stranger with physical characteristics different to their own. Whereas subjects' beliefs abou...

Challenging wisdom

Received: 10 October 2005 Revised: 11 October 2005 Accepted: 11 October 2005 ‘After all, an improviser must anticipate before playing, and composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often, one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.’ The central part of this sentence from ‘Brahms the Progressive,’ one of Arnold Schoenberg’s most renowned and influential writings (in Style a...

Probiotics: Challenging the Traditional Modes of Action

A trial was conducted to evaluate the performance of broiler birds which supplemented with a commercial inactivated probiotic. Four hundred and fifty day old broiler chickens were allocated into 3 treatments with 6 replicates each. Each replicate was placed on clean wood shavings in floor pens receiving feed and water ad libitum. In treatment 1, feed was supplemented with 500 g/ton of a heat-in...

Nutrition and Food Sciences: Fascinating and Challenging

Challenging Current Medical Misconceptions

Charles H., a 56 year old computer store manager, came to his local emergency room, complaining of vague chest discomfort present for about 4 h. Based on an absence of prior history of cardiovascular disease, a normal cardiovascular examination and electrocardiogram (ECG), and a failure to report any pain relief following the administration of sublingual nitroglycerin, the patient was discharge...