Issues for DSM-V: Suicidal Behavior as a Separate Diagnosis on a Separate Axis

Self-injurious behavior as a separate clinical syndrome.

The field of clinical psychology may benefit from adopting a deliberate self-injury syndrome as a distinct disorder for representation in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th ed., text rev.; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The phenomenological and empirical data supporting a deliberate self-injury syndrome are reviewed, and arguments for and against the adopti...

Issues for DSM-V

A Separate Jurisdiction For Cyberspace?

This article analyzes whether the technical characteristics of the Internet should create a separate legal jurisdiction, and if a separate jurisdiction would be beneficial to the Internet. Jurisdiction is a legal term for the limitation on the ability of a court to determine disputes. Generally, a nation state's jurisdiction only extends to individuals who reside within the country or to the tr...

Functional Localization of a ‘‘Time Keeper’’ Function Separate Separate

i t c k w t s c i t m The functional neuroanatomy of time estimation has ot been well-documented. This research investigated he fMRI measured brain response to an explicit, rospective time interval production (TIP) task. The tudy tested for the presence of brain activity reflectng a primary time keeper function, distinct from the rain systems involved either in conscious strategies o monitor ti...

Comparison between Combined and Separate Approaches for Solving a Location-Routing Problem in Hazardous Materials Transportation

In the case of hazardous materials management, selected routes for carrying hazardous materials (i.e., hazmat) have significant effects on locating hazmat distribution centers. Since, risk and cost are usually considered as two main attributes to determine the best routes, optimized locations are sequentially outlined depending on selected routes. In the present paper, t...