Helping behavior: The cry for help

Drowning: a cry for help.

IN this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Layon and Modell review current evidenced-based management of drowning victims who reach medical care. Modern resuscitation research of the drowning victim now spans decades. This review article expertly and comprehensively evaluates information resulting from that investigation; perhaps as important as that which is said, is that which is not said. Throughout t...

Dacrystic seizures—a cry for help

A 69-year-old man with a history of myocardial infarction presented with crying-like spells. MRI demonstrated abnormal signal in the left mesiotemporal lobe, and he was diagnosed with stroke. Over the following 1 year, he developed progressive cognitive decline, slow gait, masked facies, hypophonic voice, and brief facial and upper extremity spasms (8 per hour) often followed by brief crying sp...

A CRY for help to fight fat.

OBESITY HAS BECOME a serious and growing public health problem (27). Attempts to develop new therapeutic strategies have focused mostly on energy expenditure and caloric intake. Recent studies link energy homeostasis to the circadian clock at the behavioral, physiological, and molecular levels (7, 17, 25). In fact, most aspects of physiology, including sleep-wake cycles, cardiovascular activity...

A cry for help from Kansas.

DEAR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE American Science Community: As I write this from my troubled home state of Kansas, the State Board of Education is debating once again whether to de-emphasize the theory of evolution. Those in the majority on the Board have stated that they are considering changing the very definition of science to allow for science classes to discuss the merits of intelligent d...

Helping people help themselves