Understanding our fears

Lung cancer: our blood, sweat and fears.

Advancing Our Understanding

Conversion disorder: advances in our understanding.

than two millennia and used to describe atypical signs and symptoms that did not conform to established diseases, disappeared from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association’s classification of mental disorders. Critics had argued that the condition lacked validity and that it owed its longevity to tradition. Moreover, the term was pe...

Changing epidemiology: does it increase our understanding?

During the last decade there have been a number of reports using routinely collected health care administration data and from large cohort studies that have attempted to describe changes in the occurrence and identify risk factors for the development of the condition along with reporting its associated mortality. This article identified all studies reporting the occurrence and mortality associa...

Increasing our understanding of pigmentary disorders.

This article focuses on developments in pigmentary disorders that extend dermatologists' understanding of the field. Areas that are reviewed include the basic biochemistry, pharmacology, and physiology of the melanocortin system; melanosome development; genetic diseases associated with pigmentary disorders; pigmentary disorders secondary to systemic disease; drug-induced hyperpigmentation; envi...