Letters from Chicago

Letter from chicago: compulsion.

About a quarter of a century ago I failed psychiatry because of my imperfect understanding of the obsessive-compulsive disorders. I had not grasped the difference between compulsions and obsessions, the professor pointed out from behind his big desk; and I had written that these disorders were rare when in fact they were exceedingly common. So I spent the summer clarifying these points in my mi...

Letter from Chicago: Winter's tales.

Letter from Chicago: Oblomov's syndrome.

Points from Letters

(a) Undergraduate medical education, leading up to the M.D. degree. After qualification, all doctors have to serve a period of interneship for at least one year, as well as pass a state licensing examination, before they can practise as general practitioners. (b) Graduate education, covering usually a period of at least three years, with a view to specialization. During this period, graduates g...

From Letters to Pixels

Specifying regions of interest to search 3D anatomical space can be di cult. Ontology-based queries are often imprecise and return extra (unwanted) data. Drawing regions of interest in graphical 3D representations of a model organism in principle allows for high precision, but user interfaces can be awkward to use and time consuming. In this poster we promote the use of spatial descriptions as ...