Crazy Little Thing Called Sox—New Insights in Oligodendroglial Sox Protein Function

A crazy little idea.

Have you ever wondered if a family physician can actually influence patients to adopt lifestyle changes? To find this out, we conducted a small project based in our family practice in Edmonton, Alta. The results might surprise you. In 2010, Dr Klein was preparing for a year’s sabbatical. Some of his patients expressed concern about his upcoming departure and asked if he would be returning. He r...

This thing called life

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place - life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education - learning skills for traditional academia and to foster ha...

A little thing called love: condom use in high-risk primary heterosexual relationships.

CONTEXT Condoms are less likely to be used in primary relationships than in other relationship types. An understanding of what women and men expect when entering into these relationships, as well as how they make decisions about condom use and other prevention behaviors, is essential to efforts to curb the spread of HIV. METHODS Qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 high-risk...

What’s that Thing Called Embodiment?

Embodiment has become an important concept in many areas of cognitive science. There are, however, very different notions of exactly what embodiment is and what kind of body is required for what type of embodied cognition. Hence, while many nowadays would agree that humans are embodied cognizers, there is much less agreement on what kind of artifact could be considered embodied. This paper iden...

What is this thing called somnolence?