I n a recent issue of PNAS, Maia and McClelland (1) report findings that raise questions regarding the interpretation of a highly influential neuropsychological study of decisionmaking behavior (2). That study has been interpreted widely as evidence that decision-making behavior is governed by emotional factors outside of awareness. The impact of Maia and McClelland’s study is not so much to ch...

ARD Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Leaders Feeling the pressure The normal synovium occupies a tissue space confined by the joint capsule. This outer limit is sometimes clear, as in the volar plate of digital hinge joints, and sometimes imperceptible, as in the normal suprapatellar region where areolar synovial tissue appears to blend into the interstitial spaces of the thigh. The limit becom...

A locust can make a tasty morsel for a hungry predator, so being able to notice potentially dangerous looming objects and trigger the correct response could save a locust’s life. In locusts, a visual neuron called the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD) spikes in response to looming objects and could therefore be the trigger for escape responses. Tomas Money and colleagues at Quee...

The Kokoda Track, which spans Papua New Guinea's Oro and Central Provinces, has become a site of profound Australian national feeling. Each year, thousands trekkers travel to Guinea “do” the 96-km hiking trail, in remembrance battle waged along it during Second World War. For Province people, meanwhile, Kokoda—denoting both track place where commences—is also intense feeling, albeit ways that a...

Aim To develop a conceptual framework of the core qualities and competencies intensive critical care nurse based on experiences patients, their relatives nurses. Design Meta-ethnography. Data sources A comprehensive, systematic search in seven databases supplemented with hand, citation reference search. Sources published from 2007 to 2019 were included. Review Methods Noblit Hare's understandin...

There is a large tradition of work in moral psychology that explores the capacity for moral judgment by focusing on the basic capacity to distinguish moral violations (e.g., hitting another person) from conventional violations (e.g., playing with your food). However, only recently have there been attempts to characterize the cognitive mechanisms underlying moral judgment (e.g., Blair 1995, Gold...