Good Laboratory Practices: Myers et al. Respond

Good Laboratory Practices Are Not Synonymous with Good Scientific Practices, Accurate Reporting, or Valid Data

QSO Lensing Magnification: A Comparison of 2QZ and SDSS Results

The lensing magnification of background QSOs by foreground galaxies and clusters is a powerful probe of the mass density of the Universe and the power spectrum of mass clustering. However, the observational results in this area have been controversial. In particular, the 2dF QSO survey suggests that a strong anticorrelation effect at g < 21 is seen for both galaxies and clusters which implied t...

Evidence-Based Therapies: Translating Research into Practice

A plethora of evidence exists supporting the use of certain clinical practices for children and adolescents over others (e.g., Kazdin et al., 1990; Weiss & Weisz, 1995; Weisz et al., 1995), yet current research shows that practitioners rarely use these interventions in their own practice (e.g., Weersing et al., 2002) and that therapy conducted in community settings is not as effective as therap...

Integrating behavioral and physiological models of hippocampal function.

In recent modeling of hippocampal function, we have attempted to integrate formal behavioral analyses of classical conditioning with psychobiological data on brain lesions (Gluck and Myers [1993] Hippocampus 3:491-516; Myers and Gluck [1994] Behav Neurosci 108(5):835-847). Based on comparative behavioral analyses, we have argued that animals with hippocampal region damage are unable to alter st...

Positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia and the Dexamethasone Suppression Test.

Although the Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST) was originally proposed as a specific marker for major depressive disorder (Carroll et al. 1981), several recent studies have reported high rates of DST nonsuppression in schizophrenic patients, ranging from 22% to 73%. DST nonsuppression in schizophrenia has been attributed to depressive symptomatology (Munro et al. 1983), negative symptomatolo...