Islands of peril and pleasure

Peril and pleasure: an rdoc-inspired examination of threat responses and reward processing in anxiety and depression.

As a step toward addressing limitations in the current psychiatric diagnostic system, the National Institute of Mental Health recently developed the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) to stimulate integrative research-spanning self-report, behavior, neural circuitry, and molecular/genetic mechanisms-on core psychological processes implicated in mental illness. Here, we use the RDoC conceptualizati...

The Peril of Vehemence

The Promise and Peril of Executive Federalism:

The promise and peril of wireless technologies.

45 There is no denying the fact: Wireless, in all its forms, is hot. We’re deluged with news of how new wireless technologies will change the face of healthcare. They will lower costs, increase quality, make up for the coming shortage of doctors and nurses, connect the most rural of hospitals and clinics, move healthcare to the home, eliminate alarm fatigue ... indeed, the list seems endless. T...

Certain promise and uncertain peril

A Hippocratic oath is required not only for the individual patient but also for the community at large. This thought is provoked by a number of debates in health care on the potential conflict between personal need and the common good. Should high-tech medicine be funded at the expense of preventative and community health? Did the saving of individual lives through antibiotics spawn killer stra...