If One Receptor Doesn't Do It, Try Another

Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency: If at First You Do Not Diagnose, Try and Try Again

Ornithine transcarbamylase (OTC) deficiency is well known for its diagnosis in the neonatal period. Presentation often occurs after protein feeding and manifests as poor oral intake, vomiting, lethargy progressing to seizure, respiratory difficulty, and eventually coma. Presentation at adulthood is rare (and likely underdiagnosed); however, OTC deficiency can be life-threatening and requires pr...

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The selling process : If , at first , you don ' t succeed , try , try , try again

About 40 percent of attempts to sell a house end with the seller not selling. This aspect of behavior has not been studied carefully and, by organizing the data in a way that reveals the behavior of sellers instead of listings, I consider some hypotheses related to the ability of a market process to efficiently allocate resources. First, a change in market conditions may cause the seller to cha...

How do jurors argue with one another?

We asked jurors awaiting trial assignment to listen to a recorded synopsis of an authentic criminal trial and to make a choice among 4 verdict possibilities. Each participant juror then deliberated with another juror whose verdict choice differed, as a microcosm of a full jury’s deliberation. Analysis of the transcripts of these deliberations revealed both characteristics general to the sample ...

Creating one problem to try and fix another: the saga of ischemic preconditioning

In this issue of Brain and Behavior, Vasdekis et al. (2013) thoroughly review the theory behind remote ischemic preconditioning and the results to date of its application among patients with atherosclerotic narrowing of arteries supplying various organs including the brain. In these various trials and observations, clinicians and researchers artificially created ischemia to limbs to reduce isch...