Increasing Our Capacities

Multiple myeloma: increasing our treatment options.

Increasing our understanding of pigmentary disorders.

This article focuses on developments in pigmentary disorders that extend dermatologists' understanding of the field. Areas that are reviewed include the basic biochemistry, pharmacology, and physiology of the melanocortin system; melanosome development; genetic diseases associated with pigmentary disorders; pigmentary disorders secondary to systemic disease; drug-induced hyperpigmentation; envi...

Increasing our understanding of reactivity to pedometers in adults.

PURPOSE To investigate the presence of reactivity, if any, to wearing sealed and unsealed pedometers, with and without step count recording. METHODS On the first visit to the laboratory, 63 participants (41 females and 22 males; age = 23.6 +/- 9.6 yr, body mass index = 22.7 +/- 3.0 kg x m(-2)), blinded to the study aim, were provided with a sealed pedometer (New Lifestyles NL-1000) and inform...

Increasing Our Insular World View: Interoception and Psychopathology for Psychotherapists

Interoception has been determined to be an elemental aspect of the neural foundations of physiological homeostasis, subjective experience, and motivated behavior. This paper reviews current neuroscience research regarding interoception and forms of interoceptive dysfunction that may result in psychopathology, focusing on depression, and anxiety, in a manner conducive to psychotherapists engagin...

Increasing our understanding of the health-income gradient in children.

There have been numerous attempts to both document the income-health gradient in children and to understand the nature of the tie. In this paper, we review and summarize existing studies, and then use a unique school-based panel data set from the USA to attempt to further our understanding of the relationship. The long duration (5 observations, 9 years) allows us to add to the understanding of ...