The authors investigated the hypothesis that dissociation may represent a functional dysconnectivity syndrome using a transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) approach. Transcranial magnetic stimulation investigations that included motor thresholds and the transcallosal conduction time (TCT) reflecting the interhemispheric transfer were performed in 74 right-handed students. All subjects complet...

PURPOSE To use mini-ethnographies narrating patient illness to improve the cultural competence of the medical students. METHODS Between September 2013 and June 2015, all sixth-year medical students doing their internship at a medical center in eastern Taiwan were trained to write mini-ethnographies for one of the patients in their care. The mini-ethnographies were analyzed by authors with foc...