The Saphenopopliteal Junction—Can You Put Your Finger on It?

Defining osteopathic medicine: can you put your finger on it?

Rogers • Editorial A of us have been in situations like this: You may have trained in a major medical center, you may work there now, or you may be attending a large educational symposium. You look around and you observe, “I am as good as anybody else here, but there is something different.” The problem is, can you put your finger on it? As members of a “hands-on” profession, we osteopathic phy...

Overconfident: Do You Put Your Money on It?*

A group exhibits overconfidence if significantly more than half the group members declare to be better than the median in some characteristic. Overconfidence was found in verbal reports for a variety of characteristics and settings but was less often studied for choice behaviour. In an experiment we tested how perceived relative skill influences verbal and choice behaviour. Treatments varied ta...

Hard to Put Your Finger on it: Haptic Modality Disadvantage in Conceptual Processing

Recent neuroimaging research has shown that perceptual and conceptual processing share a common, modality-specific neural substrate, while work on modality switching costs shows that they appear to share some of the same attentional mechanisms. In two experiments, we employed a modality detection task that displayed modality-specific object properties (e.g., shrill, warm, crimson) for extremely...

Can you put your faith in DAT?

Put your chips on transcriptomics.

The course of any disease is determined by a complex interplay between innate characteristics and environmental triggers. Accordingly, evidence-based risk factor assessment in heart disease requires a detailed family history to gauge inherited features and accurate estimates of smoking, diet, exercise, and other aspects that constitute important extrinsic disease modifiers. The value of traditi...