Undue Influence as a Family Affair

Assessing Undue Influence.

A claim of undue influence (UI) often figures prominently in will and trust contests and in other legal matters. Mental health professionals (MHPs) are frequently asked to provide expert opinions on UI, but the task is challenging, because of the lack of a clear definition of UI, and conflicting and contradictory recommendations in the literature on the specific conduct of the MHP in rendering ...

Mourning is a family affair.

Mourning is a process of social disengagement. In our modern society, however, the influence of social and religious institutions on the process of mourning has significantly diminished and been partially replaced by mental health clinics. Given the latter's penchant for the intrapsychic view, the perspective on mourning has become reduced to the individual. These trends are clearly reflected i...

When Does Influence Become Undue?

Tissue-specific glucocorticoid action: a family affair.

Glucocorticoids exert a wide variety of physiological and pathological responses, most of which are mediated by the ubiquitously expressed glucocorticoid receptor (GR). The glucocorticoid response varies among individuals, as well as within tissues from the same individual, and this phenomenon can be partially explained through understanding the process of generating bioavailable ligand and the...

Clostridium difficile infection: it's a family affair.

tipped swab (Fisher Scientific) premoistened in Dey-Engley neutralizer (Becton Dickinson). The swabs were vortexed for 45 seconds in 200 piL of Dey-Engley neutralizer, plated onto prereduced C. difficile Brucella agar (CDBA), and cultured as previously described. For the fresh Clorox premoistened germicidal wipes only, an additional experiment was performed in which the inoculated site was wipe...