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Speak, Act, Remember

The fields of language production and verbal memory have relatively little contact. I argue that utterance planning for language production has substantial memory maintenance demands and that utterance planning provides the maintenance and ordering processes for short-term verbal memory tasks. There has already been some movement toward this view. I discuss benefits to pursuing these links more...

Silent Synapses Speak Up

*Department of Psychiatry The existence of silent or ineffective synapses in the †Department of Cellular and Molecular spinal cordwas proposed over 20 years ago (Wall, 1977), Pharmacology based on experimentally induced rapid changes in the Department of Physiology ability of afferents to evoke single unit activity. However, University of California a limitation of this approach was that it was...

Silent clusters – speak up!

Microorganisms have provided mankind with a multitude of useful compounds ranging from industrial enzymes to anti-cancer compounds and antibiotics. With the aging population, our need for treatment principles against cancer, Alzheimer's disease and metabolic disorders is increasing. Also, the occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic microorganisms has become one of our main ...

Why take up rheumatology?

Insurance Take-Up Among the Near-Elderly in the Age of the Affordable Care Act

Near-elderly individuals, those 60 to 64 years old, have high health care needs and, if uninsured, often delay costly care until they enroll in Medicare (Card et al. (2008); McWilliams et al. (2009)). The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014 provided new coverage options to uninsured near-elderly individuals. Although understanding the extent to which the ACA affected the near-elder...