Letters and Further Commentary

Invited Commentary Invited Commentary: Driving for Further Evolution

The concept of translational cancer epidemiology has evolved since its early beginnings in 1937 with the establishment of the National Cancer Institute. Conceptual models of cancer control research have also evolved over the last 30 years, to the point wherewe now have 4 stages of translational research (T0–T4). The current review by Lam et al. (Am J Epidemiol. 2015;181(7):451–458) covers cance...

Commentary on "letters from ainsworth: contesting the 'organization' of attachment".

As Main (1999) noted in her obituary for Mary Ainsworth, 'she was interacting weekly by letter and manuscript with her mentor and friend, John Bowlby, and their academic correspondence formed an important part of her, and implicitly our, life.' These letters of Ainsworth to John Bowlby during the 1980s, available in the Wellcome Trust Library in London, contain valuable reflections on the work ...

Commentary: Further commentary on the debate regarding increase in autism in California.

I have followed with interest the exchanges between Blaxill, Baskin, and Spitzer (JADD 2002), Croen et al. (JADD 2002), and Croen and Grether (JADD 2003) regarding the suggestion of Croen et al. that the purported dramatic increase in autism in California is a function of changing diagnostic practices with respect to mental retardation (MR). These authors would be wise to turn their attention t...

Commentary: delving further into liability for psychotherapy supervision.

In their article, "Liability and Risk Management in Outpatient Psychotherapy Supervision," Recupero and Rainey discuss some of the difficult matters related to outpatient psychotherapy supervision. We offer this commentary to make observations about their article and to further the discussion of liability and risk management. We believe there is a need to include this type of information in the...

Invited commentary: a further look at dietary questionnaire validation.