Lawrence Kohlberg: Consensus and Controversy (Sohan Modgil and Celia Modgil (Eds.))

Stefan Kramer and Neil Lawrence ( Eds . ) Machine Learning in

Variation in human DNA sequences account for a significant amount of genetic risk factors for common disease such as hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer. Identifying the human sequence variation that makes up the genetic basis of common disease will have a tremendous impact on medicine in many ways. Recent efforts to identify these genetic factors through large scale associa...

Acupuncture analgesia: areas of consensus and controversy.

The clinical practice of acupuncture is growing in popularity world-wide. In parallel, interest in the scientific basis of acupuncture has been increasing, as reflected by a dramatic rise in the number of scientific publications on acupuncture and related techniques (ART) in the recent decade [16]. After 40 years of extensive studies, compelling evidence has been obtained to support acupuncture...

The Neurobiology of Decision: Consensus and Controversy

We review and synthesize recent neurophysiological studies of decision making in humans and nonhuman primates. From these studies, the basic outline of the neurobiological mechanism for primate choice is beginning to emerge. The identified mechanism is now known to include a multicomponent valuation stage, implemented in ventromedial prefrontal cortex and associated parts of striatum, and a cho...

Adaptive phenotypic plasticity: consensus and controversy.

Phenotypic plasticity is an environmentally based change in the phenotype. Understanding the evolution of adaptive phenotypic plasticity has been hampered by dissenting opinions on the merits of different methods of description, on the underlying genetic mechanisms, and on the way that plasticity is affected by natural selection in a heterogeneous environment. During much of this debate, the au...

Investigational treatments: coverage, controversy, and consensus.