Pain after Surgery—Acute Becomes Chronic: Might There be a Silver Rocket?

The transition from acute to chronic pain: might intensive care unit patients be at risk?

Pain remains a significant problem for patients hospitalized in intensive care units (ICUs). As research has shown, for some of these patients pain might even persist after discharge and become chronic. Exposure to intense pain and stress during medical and nursing procedures could be a risk factor that contributes to the transition from acute to chronic pain, which is a major disruption of the...

What Might be the Case after a Change in View

When it comes to belief dynamics Y how a rational agent ought to change her full-beliefs after learning something new Y doxastic conservatism seems to have a lot going for it. Information is not gratuitous, the slogan goes, and so changes in view should always be minimal changes in view. This is the core of conservatism, and looks like just the kind of constraint that rationality imposes on bel...

Bats Aggregate to Improve Prey Search but Might Be Impaired when Their Density Becomes Too High

Social foraging is a very common yet extremely complex behavior. Numerous studies attempted to model it with little supporting evidence. Studying it in the wild is difficult because it requires monitoring the animal's movement, its foraging success, and its interactions with conspecifics. We present a novel system that enables full night ultrasonic recording of freely foraging bats, in addition...

Manipulating nature: Might there be a cardiovascular price to pay for the miracle of assisted conception?

Might There Be a Cardiovascular Price to Pay for the Miracle of Assisted Conception?

Assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) have brought the miracle of childbirth to literally hundreds of thousands of adults who would otherwise not have conceived children; indeed, it is now estimated that 1% to 3% of all births in many developed nations involve ARTs.1 The first ART birth, however, was not until 1978, and so even the oldest such offspring are only now entering young adult lif...