"Surgeon=General Sternberg: Two Opinions."

Paul W. Sternberg

Paul W. Sternberg was born on Long Island, New York. He was an undergraduate at Hampshire College, obtaining his B.A. in 1978. He received his Ph.D. in Biology from MIT in 1984 for work on nematode development with Robert Horvitz, and pursued postdoctoral research in yeast molecular genetics with Ira Herskowitz at UCSF. He joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology, where he i...

IgE in Reed-Sternberg cells.

Two opinions about one child--what's the clinician to do?

How does a clinician proceed when she or he gets conflicting information from parent, child, and school? The special section in this issue entitled, ‘‘Information Variance and Its Diagnostic Implications,’’ tackles a conundrum that confounds evaluations in youth (Achenbach, et al. 1987, Youngstrom, et al. 2003) and adults (Achenbach, et al. 2005) alike. After years of wrestling with the reality...

Item noise in the Sternberg paradigm

The list length effect in recognition memory is the finding that performance improves as the number of items studied decreases. Models have attempted to operationalize interference in recognition memory as noise that accumulates over items in the study list, other contexts in which studied items have appeared, or a combination of both sources. Item noise models predict a list length effect. The...

Reed-Sternberg-like cells in follicular lymphoma

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 32-year-old woman presented with abdominal bloating and postprandial discomfort for 3 weeks. Multiple neck and axillary lymph nodes were palpable on physical examination. The lymph nodes were involved by low grade follicular lymphoma with effacement by clo...