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Are you pulling my airway?

E xcessive airway narrowing is a hallmark of asthma. This is due to unencumbered shortening of airway smooth muscle, leading to severe airways obstruction and even closure of airways. Remarkably, in healthy subjects, this does not occur, and there is little doubt that the explanation of this apparent ‘‘protection’’ in normal subjects will be essential for our understanding of asthma. Parenchyma...

You Are Always on My Mind

Dr. Torrey is a research psychiatrist who specializes in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He is Founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, Associate Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, and the author of American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System. Ms. Dailey is a legislative and policy counsel at the Treatment Advocacy Center. S...

Self discovery enables robot social cognition: Are you my teacher?

Infants exploit the perception that others are 'like me' to bootstrap social cognition (Meltzoff, 2007a). This paper demonstrates how the above theory can be instantiated in a social robot that uses itself as a model to recognize structural similarities with other robots; this thereby enables the student to distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate teachers. This is accomplished by the ...

Internal medicine: I cannot live without you as you are my destiny.

1060 Some time ago, Professor Anetta Undas, Editor­ ­in ­Chief of the Polish Archives of Internal Medicine and Professor Jacek Imiela, national consultant in internal medicine, invited me to write about my life as an internist and the role of internal med­ icine in today’s world of narrow specialization. My adventure with internal medicine started a long time ago during my medical education. As...

Are you my parent? Are you my child? The role of genetics and race in defining relationships after reproductive technological mistakes.