Psychoimmunology before its time

Drink No Wine Before Its Time

We consider the impact of taxes on the quantity and quality produced of goods, such as wine, for which market value accrues with age. Any pair of taxes that includes a volumetric sales tax and any one of three other types of tax – an ad valorem sales tax, an ad valorem storage tax, or a volumetric storage tax – spans the quality/revenue space and can support an optimal tax system. Provided soci...

Old before its time: HIPAA and e-health policy.

Psychoimmunology and Functional Psychoses: the Indian Scene

This morning in beautiful city of Lucknow, I have been selected to deliver the "Tilak Venkoba Rao oration" which is indeed a land mark step in my career for a variety of reasons. I am fortunate that I am delivering this oration in the city of my alma mater where I have grown worthy of this oration. I owe a lot to my alma mater and to my revered teachers particularly Prof. B.B. Sethi who brought...

The Psychoimmunology of Lyme/Tick-Borne Diseases and its Association with Neuropsychiatric Symptoms

Disease progression of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Lyme/tick-borne diseases can be better understood by greater attention to psychoimmunology. Although there are multiple contributors that provoke and weaken the immune system, infections and persistent infections are significant causes of pathological immune reactions. Immune mediated ef-fects are a significant contributor to the pathophysiolo...

Distribution of the time at which a Brownian motion is maximal before its first-passage time

We calculate analytically the probability density P (tm) of the time tm at which a continuous-time Brownian motion (with and without drift) attains its maximum before passing through the origin for the first time. We also compute the joint probability density P (M, tm) of the maximum M and tm. In the driftless case, we find that P (tm) has power-law tails: P (tm) ∼ t −3/2 m for large tm and P (...