When dysphoria is not a primary mental state

Running head: MENTAL STATE DECODING The influence of dysphoria and depression on mental state decoding

When being upset is not a mental health problem.

I live in Central London under the Heathrow flightpath. As I write this editorial, my house has just been shaken by the final flight of the last three Concordes. Just over two years ago, on Sept 11th, we experienced the opposite, a strange week of silence, when all overflights were banned for a week. And when they resumed, for a while I looked out of my window as each plane came past, and exper...

Mental illness is not a state of mind.

“You will know very few happy moments in life, so make the most of them.” Those are words I often heard from my late mother, leading me to believe that life was going to be a painful affair. In retrospect I wonder whether she was dealing with chronic depression or whether she was “merely” dogged by unhappiness. But is unhappiness so different from depression? The World Health Organization defin...

When is a computer not a computer?

We recently bought an IBM-BLOKBUSTR computer, after reading Osherson’s (1985) beguiling description of its ability to do the uncomputable. We had hoped to use it in our study of the human ability to generate music. But we ran into problems that we had not anticipated. Readers of this journal who plan to use this rather unusual machine in their research, might want to profit from our experience....

When Is a Reservoir Not a Reservoir?

a novel gram-positive actinobacterium isolated from a human clinical source. Four-year prospective study of STAPH-IDENT system and conventional method for reference identification of Staphylococcus, Stomatococcus, and Micrococcus spp. Alvarez-Grande J. Relapsing bacteraemia due to Micrococcus luteus in a haemodialy-sis patient with a Perm-Cath catheter. To the Editor: Some 80% of parasitic infe...