Positive State Obligations Regarding Fundamental Rights and ‘Changing the Hearts and Minds’

Hearts and minds.

Editorials in Heart reflect the range of original papers we receive, covering diagnosis, management, epidemiology, and pathology of cardiovascular disease. Little has been published on the clinically well recognised interaction between the heart, psychology, and behaviour. There are two contributory factors: cardiologists tend to be suspicious about the reliability and validity of psychological...

Simulating hearts and minds

Central organ: The human heart could be described in mechanical terms as a simple pump moving our blood around, but its detailed function involves many layers of complexity. A complete model of its activity is therefore still a major challenge, which researchers are addressing now. (Image: Guillermo Marin, Fernando M. Cucchietti, Mariano Vázquez, Carlos Tripiana, Guillaume Houzeaux, Ruth Arís, ...

Hearts and minds and nanotechnology.

One way to interpret this last finding would be to assume that when people become more familiar with nanotechnology, they like it more. This so-called familiarity hypothesis is attractive because it supposedly shows an easy path to achieving public support and government funding for nanotechnology. As more information is disseminated, funding will become more politically acceptable. However, th...

Changing Minds, Changing Brains

Measures of brain function are used today in many areas of psychological research, and developmental psychology is no exception. The infusion of cognitive neuroscience into psychology has been met variably with enthusiasm, skepticism, and opposition. The most productive attitude towards this sea change, I maintain, consists of a healthy dose of both enthusiasm and skepticism [see also Kagan, 20...

The HIV positive health care clinician: rights, obligations, and the academy.