Charles Valentine Riley

Dylan Riley

The essays in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences contribute to a historical and comparative sociology of social science by systematically comparing the rises, falls, and absences of ‘‘methodological positivism’’ across the human sciences. Although all of the essays are of extremely high quality, three contributions develop the argument most fully: George Steinmetz’s introduction and W...

The Riley-Day syndrome

Familial dysautonomia (Riley et al., 1949) is an autosomal recessive disease affecting Jews of Eastern European ancestry (Brunt and McKusick, 1970). As the name implies the autonomic nervous system is defective, and this is seen clinically as defective control of temperature, blood pressure, and swallowing, by skin blotching, excessive sweating, lack of tearing, and bowel disturbance. Abnormali...

Bannayan Ruvalcaba Riley Syndrome

A 63-year-old male with history of prostate cancer treated with radiation presented for a colonoscopy for small volume hematochezia. The colonoscopy revealed numerous polyps, which were found to be ganglioneuromas on histological examination. He was referred to medical genetics with suspicion for hamartomatous polyposis syndrome and was found to have a mutation in the PTEN gene. Based on this a...

Familial dysautonomia (Riley-Day syndrome).

Familial dysautonomia, also known as Riley-Day syndrome, is a disorder of autonomic nervous system with an autosomal recessive mode of inheritance. Reduction and/or loss of unmyelinated and small myelinated fibers is found, as reduction of dopamine beta-hydroxylase in blood. The diagnosis is based on clinical features: diminished lacrimation, insensitivity to pain, poor temperature control, abo...

Linkwitz-Riley Crossovers: A Primer