Swallow Intuition

Swallow surprise

of Virginia's governor Tim Kaine to sign a bill banning the use of certain state funds for embryonic stem cell research. This move has an ironic twist as Obama nominated Kaine as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, a position he will take on full time when his term as governor expires next January. In Germany, production of and research with new stem cell lines are still off limits, ...

Swallow preservation exercises during chemoradiation therapy maintains swallow function.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate a swallow preservation protocol (SPP) in which patients received swallow therapy before, during, and after radiation treatment and its efficacy in maintaining swallowing function in head and neck cancer patients. DESIGN Case series with chart review. SETTING Tertiary care academic medical center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eighty-five patients who received radiation (RT) o...

Measuring Intuition

The long-held popular notion of intuition has garnered much attention both academically and popularly. Although most people agree that there is such a phenomenon as intuition, involving emotionally charged, rapid, unconscious processes, little compelling evidence supports this notion. Here, we introduce a technique in which subliminal emotional information is presented to subjects while they ma...

Moral Intuition

Suppose we wish to understand a particular moral problem – for example, abortion. One way of proceeding is to reason on the basis of our existing substantive moral beliefs. We may, however, suspect that our moral beliefs about abortion, insofar as we have any prior to serious reflection, are unreliable. We may suspect, for example, that our beliefs about abortion reflect the influence of a reli...

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