Commentary: Can we finally move the needle in organ donation?

Why move the eyes if we can move the head?

To see while moving is a very basic and integrative sensorimotor function in vertebrates. To maintain visual acuity, the oculomotor system provides efficient compensatory eye movements for head and visual field displacements. Other types of eye movement allow the selection of new visual targets and binocular vision and stereopsis. Motor and premotor neuronal circuits involved in the genesis and...

Myocardial strain: can we finally measure contractility?

The measurement of myocardial performance is of critical importance for the diagnosis and management of the patient with cardiac disease. Despite decades of investigation, the search for the optimal method to measure the contractile properties of the myocardium still continues. Extrapolations from experiments in isolated muscle preparations and the intact animal heart have resulted in invasive ...

Organ donation in the United States: can we learn from successes abroad?

Time to move to presumed consent for organ donation.

Can We Move Beyond the Secular State?

The article argues for re-consideration of the secularization so often in the West regarded as an essential condition for a democratic state. Its inbuilt incoherence and problematic consequences suggest that the term secular should be abandoned. Deep-seated reasons for objecting to such a proposal follow, discussing an affront to personal integrity, confronting intellectual apartheid and analys...