“Simply not comprehensible.” Why?

Why psychiatry and neurology cannot simply merge.

Dr. Pies is with Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Address correspondence to Dr. Pies, Tufts University School of Medicine, BOX 1007, 750 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111; [email protected] (E-mail). Copyright 2005 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. C the case of the optician and the art critic. Each is viewing a painting at a museum, and each is asked to describe ...

Children—Not Simply “Little Adults”

God in America: Why Theology Is Not Simply the Concern of Philosophers

As citizens of the most technologically advanced and economically developed country in the world, nearly all Americans stalwartly maintain their faith in God, much more so than residents of other postindustrial countries (Norris and Ingelhart 2004). But what is the content and meaning of this belief? Perhaps belief in God has become so pervasive in contemporary American culture that it reflects...

Management Strategies in Sarcoidosis: Why Short-Term Prednisone Monotherapy Is Simply Not Enough

Despite therapeutic protocols increasingly being composed of multiple agents, it is not all that uncommon for individuals with sarcoidosis to present to sarcoid specialty clinics only on a 2-3 week prednisone course for treatment and not show any resolution of their signs and symptoms. In order to understand why the response in inadequate, we will need to delve deeper into the immunological cas...

Protecting brains, not simply stimulating minds.

Curricular enhancements in early childhood education that are guided by the science of learning must be augmented by protective interventions informed by the biology of adversity. The same neuroplasticity that leaves emotional regulation, behavioral adaptation, and executive functioning skills vulnerable to early disruption by stressful environments also enables their successful development thr...