There are many analogies between medical and judicial practice. This article explores one such analogy, “medicalization” “criminalization.” Specifically, drawing on an analogy a judge’s speech act of delivering verdict physician’s giving diagnosis, it suggests novel account the phenomenon “overdiagnosis.” Using this approach, we can make some headway in understanding debates over early detectio...

unlike the languages we know, some of the arabic sentences form without any verbs. arab grammarians call these sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate without any linking verbs, nominal sentences. examining theses sentences indicates that their predicate is composed of one of the following words or structures: 1. noun, 2. prepositional phrase, 3. an adverb of time or place, 4. a nomi...

background: cerebrovascular disease leading to stroke is the most common cause of aphasia. speakers with agrammatic non-fluent aphasia have difficulties in production of movement-derived sentences such as passive sentences, topicalized constituents, and wh-questions. to assess the production of complex sentences, some passive, topicalized and focused sentences were designed for patients with no...

Clemens Boucsein,* Martin Nawrot,* Stefan Rotter, Ad Aertsen, and Detlef Heck Neurobiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biology III and Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg; Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg, Germany; and University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Department of Anatomy and Neurobio...