Translating Women’s Silences

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Snail silences suppressor

2 JEM Vol. 206, No. 1, 2009 Learning to tolerate ourselves On age 139, Duty et al. find self-reactive B cells in healthy adults that might harm their own body if given the chance. Checkpoints during B cell development ensure that immune cells won’t confuse the self for an intruder. At birth, many B cells express self-reactive receptors. Most of the...

Niaid Womens Health Research (fy 2015-2016)

Challenges to womens reproductive health: maternal mortality

Motion Silences Awareness of Visual Change

Loud bangs, bright flashes, and intense shocks capture attention, but other changes--even those of similar magnitude--can go unnoticed. Demonstrations of change blindness have shown that observers fail to detect substantial alterations to a scene when distracted by an irrelevant flash, or when the alterations happen gradually [1-5]. Here, we show that objects changing in hue, luminance, size, o...