I Gave Up—Why Carla Markham Got off the Couch

O12: Off the Couch and Out the Door: Improving Treatment Through a Refined Understanding of Psychotherapeutic Change

State-of-the-art psychotherapy for anxiety disorders represents some of the most efficacious treatments in the mental health literature. Nevertheless, these treatments are not panacea. Too many patients drop out of treatment, response rates leave room for improvement, and residual symptomatology is common. The quest to improve therapy for patients suffering from mental disorders necessitates on...

An Interview with Carla Shatz – Harvard’s First Female Neurobiology Chair

CS: Well – let me say first off a couple of things: What I expected to happen in my life, never happened, and what happened was not what I had expected. I fully expected while I was growing up, that I would have kids and a family. I was married but I put off the decision to have kids for too long and when it finally came time to have them, I found that I could not conceive. The subsequent infer...

Adjusting to Separation

An Update of Couch Effect on the Attenuation of Megavoltage Radiotherapy Beam and the Variation of Absorbed Dose in the Build-up Region

Purpose: Fiber carbon is the most common material used in treating couch as it causes less beam attenuation than other materials. Beam attenuation replaces build-up region, reduces skin-sparing effect and causes target volume under dosage. In this study, we aimed to evaluate beam attenuation and variation of build-up region in 550 TxT radiotherapy couch.Materials and Methods: In this study, we ...

What My 1-Year-Old Son Has Taught Me about Pharmacist Practice.

JCPH – Vol. 64, n 3 – mai–juin 2011 232 my crawling son somehow got the remote control off the couch by pulling a pillow toward him, I knew my world would never be the same . . . outsmarted by a 9-month-old! Change can come quickly, and sometimes we just need to roll with it. Although we cannot anticipate everything, we can and must quickly adapt to the new opportunities and challenges that pre...