Viewing affect and cognition as independent from one another has had a long history. Even if interaction between the two was entertained, affect was seen as contaminating cognition, leading to errant thinking and suboptimal decisions. A quite different perspective has emerged in recent years. From this view, rather than constituting distinct constructs or opposing forces, affect and cognition a...

ABST RACT Small bowel obstruction is a common surgical problem with many potential etiologies. A 24-year-old African-American male presented with bowel obstruction secondary to incarcerated inguinal hernia and mesenteric fibromatosis. The latter diagnosis was delayed. Surgical correction of both etiologies was required. Our case represents an interesting combination of one of the most common ca...

Grammatical change is an extremely interesting area but does presuppose some knowledge of grammar. For this reason, if you do not have this knowledge yet, this chapter will work best if you have first familiarised yourself with the terminology discussed in the chapters on grammar, i.e. especially chapters and 5–8. Chapters on grammatical change in traditional textbooks on the history of English...

The most recent consensus of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is that parasomnias are “undesirable physical events or experiences that occur during entry into sleep, within sleep or during arousals from sleep” (1). Parasomnias are often considered to be normal sleep phenomena, especially in children, and do not in general have a serious impact on sleep quality or quantity. However, in som...

Introduction: Upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) is characterized by repeated number of arousals at night, and excessive daytime sleepiness or somnolence (EDS). It is often missed in classical polysomnographic diagnostic approaches and misdiagnosed as simple snoring or idiopathic hypersomnia, thereby is often left untreated. We propose that positive airway pressure (PAP), which has shown t...

1. INTRODUCTION. Among the theorems of plane geometry, a privileged position is held by those that are true in neutral geometry, that is, without either assuming or denying the parallel postulate. Such, for example, are the first twenty-eight propositions of Euclid's Elements, including the triangle congruences SAS (I.4), 1 SSS (I.8), ASA (I.26), and the base angles of an isosceles triangle are...

Dr. Adam B. Cohen (Neurology): A 59-year-old man was admitted to the neurology service of this hospital because of chronic daily headache, fever, and myalgia. Approximately 6 months earlier, the patient had begun having headache, accompanied by muscle spasms, generalized myalgia, weakness, fatigue, difficulty sleeping, and anxiety. The headache was constant, affected both temporal and frontal r...