The Vietnam Veteran as Ventriloquist

Veteran Status as a Screening Device during the Vietnam Era'

This paper examines the role of veteran status as a screen during the Vietnam era. While overall earnings differentials between Vietnam-era veterans and nonveterans are small, they vary systematically with schooling, age, and race. Little evidence is found supporting the hypothesis that veteran status is generally a positive screen. During the Vietnam era, the military apparently drew relativel...

The unconsciousness defense as applied to post traumatic stress disorder in a Vietnam veteran.

This case describes the use of the unconsciousness defense regarding a Vietnam veteran who was charged with assault with a deadly weapon. This is the first time that such a defense has been used in conjunction with the post-traumatic syndrome which has been described by various authors including Figley,l Wilson,2 Horowitz,3 and is presently included in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-III ...

War stress and trauma: the Vietnam veteran experience.

Neural Basis of the Ventriloquist Illusion

The ventriloquist creates the illusion that his or her voice emerges from the visibly moving mouth of the puppet [1]. This well-known illusion exemplifies a basic principle of how auditory and visual information is integrated in the brain to form a unified multimodal percept. When auditory and visual stimuli occur simultaneously at different locations, the more spatially precise visual informat...

When the patient reports atrocities. Specific treatment considerations of the Vietnam veteran.