Off the Wall/ Madness, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Enhanced sensitivity to information of negative (compared to positive) valence has an adaptive value, for example, by expediting the correct choice of avoidance behavior. However, previous evidence for such enhanced sensitivity has been inconclusive. Here we report a clear advantage for negative over positive words in categorizing them as emotional. In 3 experiments, participants classified bri...

Murder, She Wrote: Enhanced Sensitivity to Negative Word Valence

Enhanced sensitivity to information of negative (compared to positive) valence has an adaptive value, for example, by expediting the correct choice of avoidance behavior. However, previous evidence for such enhanced sensitivity has been inconclusive. Here we report a clear advantage for negative over positive words in categorizing them as emotional. In 3 experiments, participants classified bri...

Murder, she wrote or was it merely selective nontreatment?

Off the wall

O ne of the most intriguing events in the history of life on earth is the evolution of self-replicating cells. Indeed, it is dazzling to even think about the complexity of the evolutionary changes required to go from a random mixture of molecules to highly organized bacterial cells that are capable of replicating themselves. A predominant theory is that RNA may have formed the basic genetic ele...

Slow euthanasia-or "she will be better off in hospital".

PROFESSOR MITCHELL: Dr Emerson clearly identified the site of the process correctly, but this is a different sort of process from the ordinary dissection that he was talking about. Did he have aortic medionecrosis ? DR SMITH: He did not have dissection, with blood tracking through the media. PROFESSOR MITCHELL: Would Dr Emerson like to put it all together with investigations and management ? DR...