Editorial: Statistics in the new millennium

Editorial: Natural diversity in the new millennium

Natural diversity is a recurrent theme in everyday life and in research. Thus, the objective of this topic was to highlight progress or novelties that occurred in this new millennium. The topic includes many different fields as can be seen by the variety of the articles. Indeed, subjects covered include variations in strawberry aroma, diversity of protein families, and peculiar ecosystems. Howe...

Psychiatry in the New Millennium.

Psychiatry enters the new millennium grappling with complexity at many levels. Gone are many simple ideas, for example, that there is “a gene for schizophrenia” or “a gene aggression”. Gone are simple ideas that related single neurotransmitters to mental disorders. Gone too are the ideas that correlated circumscribed brain regions with particular cognitive or emotional functions. Instead behavi...

Transfusion in the new millennium

Prehistoric man left drawings of himself pierced by arrows. This means he was as aware of blood as he was of his own limbs. The flint implements he used as tools and weapons distinguished him from other creatures and contributed to the violence of his era. As he hunted food and fought enemies, he observed bleeding and the properties of blood. A cut, received or inflicted, yielded a vivid red co...

The Viewpoint of IJMS New Editorial Board

Collaboration in the New Millennium

1 The presidential addresses of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) of the past decade convey a consistency of format and themes. They highlight significant weaknesses in some of the basic questions and methodologies of psychotherapy researchers. These include neglect of topics concerning the understanding of change and over-valuation of the randomized clinical trial (RCT). Although va...