Out of air is not out of action

FISH Out of WATER: How Much Air is Too Much?

Out of the body, but not out of mind.

‘‘. some of the delusions of the insane have their origin in what may justly be called motor hallucinations; a disorder of the nervous centres of the motor intuitions generates in consciousness a false conception or delusion as to the condition of the muscles, so that an individual lying in his bed believes himself flying through the air, or imagines his legs, arms, or head, to be separated fro...

Neuroscience: Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind

How does the brain hold information about multiple stimuli online after they have disappeared? A new study shows that neurons in the human medial temporal remain active while images are memorized, demonstrating that spiking activity keeps multiple memories online.

Out of sight, but not out of mind.

Clinicians have had some success in treating or preventing several rarely discussed opportunistic infections. The author discusses seven infections, outlining the disease and possible treatments. Aspergillosis, a fungal infection found in the lungs and sinuses, can be treated with intravenous amphotericin B. However, researchers are studying oral itraconazole as an alternative treatment. B-19 p...

Out of sight but not out of mind: memory scanning is attuned to threatening faces.

Working memory (WM) theoretically affords the ability to privilege social threats and opportunities over other more mundane information, but few experiments have sought support for this contention. Using a functional logic, we predicted that threatening faces are likely to elicit encoding benefits in WM. Critically, however, threat depends on both the capacities and inclinations of the potentia...