The Headlines That Didn’t Happen

Prophylaxis: headaches that never happen.

The discovery of preventive drugs for headache involved both serendipity and design. Despite modest efficacy and uncertainty about mechanisms, prophylaxis has transformed the lives of countless headache sufferers in the last 50 years. Realizing its full potential will be the work of the next half-century.

What's the Worst That Can Happen?

Videogames: Dispelling myths and tabloid headlines that videogames are bad

Christian M Jones Laura Scholes Daniel Johnson Mary Katsikitis Michelle C. Carras University of the Sunshine Coast University of the Sunshine Coast Queensland University of Technology University of the Sunshine Coast Johns Hopkins University Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Queensland, Australia Baltimore, MD, USA [email protected] [email protected] dm.johns...

Ever at the ready for events that never happen

Stress, whether daily stress, work stress or traumatic stress, is unhealthy. This lecture covers three recent theoretical approaches in explaining the mechanisms underlying the influence of psychological stress on somatic health. It is argued that stress research should focus less on stressors themselves and put more emphasis on prolonged stress responses. Three mechanisms are identified that c...

Some Things That Can Happen When the Minimum Principle Fails

Most analysts feel about scalar valued, linear heat flows the way they do about their grandparents: they are stable, reliable, but dull. To a large extent, the origin of their stability is the minimum principle, which says that the flow preserves non-negativity. In this lecture, I will describe some examples of what can happen when one introduces boundary conditions which destroy the minimum pr...