PCR Innovators Day: dreaming with our eyes wide open…

Raising the CD4+ initiation threshold with our eyes wide open.

Amygdala: Eyes Wide Open

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A Case of Pathological Day Dreaming

By far the greatest number of these meetings were spent in walking about the country around Palo Alto. Occasionally the hour was spent in reading, writing or some such occupation as gathering pepper-berries. The boy was observed at the piano, at the table, and in contact with others. Possibly the most effective description will be one that consists of actual occurrences, grouped under several s...

Eyes wide open: surgery to westernize the eyes of an Asian child.

January-February 2009 Douglas Opel and Benjamin Wilfond, discuss other real-life examples of cosmetic surgery in cognitively impaired children. They argue that it is all too easy—and wrong—to dismiss such procedures if the psychological benefit to the parents is clearer than the benefit to the child. “[E]xploring parental motivations and clarifying parental values may be precisely what is neede...

Calcified Pericarditis associated with Ventricular Septal Defect: Should We Close the Hole or Open Our Eyes?

We present the case of a 45-year-old woman with recent onset of dipnea and atrial fibrillation. She was referred to our center for treatment of an associated ventricular septal defect. Echocardiography confirmed the presence of a membranous ventricular septal defect, but also showed signs of constriction. Cardiac computed tomography displayed a severe, diffuse calcified pericarditis. We show th...