OUGHT WE TO ENHANCE OUR COGNITIVE CAPACITIES?1

Cardiology 1985: 'Whither are we tending and what ought our aim to be?' Presidential address.

MUCH HAS HAPPENED in the field of cardiovascu-lar medicine since the 1984 Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association in Miami. For all the noteworthy advances that were made, certain events brought more notoriety than others. At times, the notoriety was unfortunate and ill focused, as in the abortive attempt at interspecies transplantation with "Baby Fae." At other times the attentio...

Can We Add Auricular Composite Graft to Our Rhinoplasty Armamentarium?

BACKGROUND The ala of the nose, with its particular texture and characteristics, poses both aesthetically and functionally intriguing challenges and is rather problematic regarding choices for reconstructive methods. Both flaps and grafts have been used to restore natural structure of nasal ala. The present study summarizes a ten-year experience of reconstructive surgery using small composite...

Curbside Consults : a tradition we ought to abandon

Physicians, having shared and survived the gauntlets of medical school and residency, tend to be supportive of one another. At the same time, having first hand knowledge of the time commitment that goes with our profession, we are often hesitant to ask for one another's assistance. These factors have been instrumental in the evolution of the curbside or sidewalk consult, a practice that is ingr...

How we ought to describe computation in the brain.

I argue that of the four kinds of quantitative description relevant for understanding brain function, a control theoretic approach is most appealing. This argument proceeds by comparing computational, dynamical, statistical and control theoretic approaches, and identifying criteria for a good description of brain function. These criteria include providing useful decompositions, simple state map...

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