We simply cannot go on being so vague about ‘function’

So where do we go from here?

i First, I would like to thank Bernd Carsten Stahl for the opportunity to write this editorial, and for his vision, hard work, and dedication. It also has been a privilege to work with the editorial team, the reviewers, and, of course, the authors. IJTHI is off to a good start. It has been exciting for me to be part of a new journal and to see it go from just a concept to its fourth issue. Alth...

Should we go nuts about nuts?

Since the beginning of the 1990s, increasing evidence supports beneficial effects of nut consumption on health. A new analysis of the Spanish PREDIMED trial, published in BMC Medicine, has expanded our knowledge. The study showed that individuals eating nuts more than three times per week died less often from cardiovascular disease and cancer than non-consumers. The study also adds an important...

Why psychiatry and neurology cannot simply merge.

Dr. Pies is with Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Address correspondence to Dr. Pies, Tufts University School of Medicine, BOX 1007, 750 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111; [email protected] (E-mail). Copyright 2005 American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc. C the case of the optician and the art critic. Each is viewing a painting at a museum, and each is asked to describe ...

So We Don't Go for ‘the Big (type) “o”’ – so What?

What do we know about what we cannot remember? Accessing the semantic attributes of words that cannot be recalled.

Two experiments examined access to the semantic attributes of words that participants failed to retrieve. The results indicated access to all 3 dimensions of the semantic differential--evaluation, potency, and activity, as revealed by attribute judgments and by the nature of the commission errors made. There was no evidence for superior access to the emotional-evaluative dimension, inconsistent...