Abstract Introduction Many people suffer from recurring nightmares that induce fear in their dreams and incur lasting psychological effects. One possible solution to alleviate these might be wake up directly them. Though we typically think of sleep as an “off” state where the sleeper is unable make decisions, one exception lucid dreaming. In dreams, dreamer aware dream can perform deliberate ac...

THE title of this book is self-explanatory. It is so written that doctors in any part of the world and in any typc of practice can quickly learn the up-to-date treatment of many of the common emergencies which wc may be called upon to treat. It could be of particular value to those whose time is too limited to permit of much critical reading. It should therefore appeal particularly to the "succ...

XVar By BRIGADIER J. A. SINTON, V.C., O.BE., F.R.S., M.D., D.SC., D.P.H. Hon. Consultant in Malaria to the War Olice I CANNOT tell you how much I appreciate the honour that the Committee has done me in its invitation to give the Robert Campbell Memorial Oration. I feel especially proud as I have had the honour, the privilege, and the pleasure not only of being one of his old students, but also ...

F or three decades, from the mid1930s until his death in 1962, Homer Smith was the preeminent figure among those interested in the physiology of the kidney. His leadership reflected not only the seminal research contributions of Smith and his colleagues and the conceptual framework that he developed, but also the extraordinary lucidity that he brought to the exposition of work in renal physiolo...

This book belongs on the reference shelves of clinical chemical laboratories, but would not be as valuable to strictly research laboratories. It is worth its price to obtain certain invaluable chapters: Sodium and Potassium by Flame Photometry by Hald, an authority on this subject, Nitrogen by the Kjeldahl Method by Archibald, an experienced investigator, and Free and Conjugated 17-Hydroxycorti...

THIS book may help to inform medical students and practitioners, whose knowledge of bacteriology is of necessity restricted in breadth as well as in depth, with the general aspects of the wider, but cognate, science now fashionably recognised as microbiology. This science assimilates what is still known as bacteriology, and invades the territory of the botanist and zoologist. It considers not o...

The head injured (HI) population demonstrates a wide variety of impairment from person to person. Within single individuals the nature and severity of the injury can change rapidly as healing progresses. These complex cognitive, emotional, language and physical deficits often present cognitive rehab team members with diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment challenges (Hagen, 1981; Rollin, 1987). ...

BACKGROUND It remains unclear if fatal brain injuries in young children are characterized by immediate rapid deterioration or can present after an initial period of lucidity. This issue has legal implications in child abuse, for which understanding the clinical course affects perpetrator identification. OBJECTIVE To determine patterns of neurologic presentation on hospital admission in infant...

It has often been asserted that the discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 was the starting point for molecular biology. Whether or not this is true, it cannot be doubted that Francis Crick became a dominant figure in the early years of molecular biology. In those years there was a continual interaction between theory and experiment, in which Crick paid a leading role. I was in Cambridge at ...

Abnormalities in the sleep/wake cycle and within sleep itself have extensively been studied in a broad range of psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. Despite increasing evidence for a mechanistic overlap between the disruptions of circa-dian timing control and neuropathology, the relationship remains unclear (Wulff et al., 2010). One possible way to address this problem from a psychiatri...