With a pair of beefed-up forelimbs ready for action, praying mantises look as prepared any prize fighter, but these animals aren't just fighting glory, the stakes are far higher: they're after dinner. Yet, even mighty vulnerable to larger predators, so there will be occasions when it would wise disregard tasty treat avoid ending up on someone else's menu. ‘Most behaviour needs strike balance’, ...

Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy in which the retinal ganglion cells and their axons, which package and transmit visual impulses from the photoreceptors and associated retinal interneurons to the brain, die individually or in small groups, typically over many years (Figs. 1 and 2) (1). The resulting functional deficit is the second leading cause of irreversible visual loss in the U.S., and the m...

“Ms. V,” a 60-year-old college-educated woman, was brought by her daughter to the emergency department at a teaching hospital for the evaluation of heart palpitations. Ms. V had personality changes and mood swings with aggressive verbal and physical behaviors that had progressively worsened over the past year. A psychiatric consultation was requested to evaluate these emotional outbursts. On th...

599 On June 26th 2007 and October 16th 2008, Korean newspapers reported two separate incidents in which two women alleged that their male doctors sexually assaulted them during a gastroscopy and a gynaecological examination, respectively. As a consequence, an internist was convicted with sexually assaulting more than 3 of his female patients under sedation in a 2 month period, while a gynaecolo...

This paper describes the International Dating Violence (IDV) Study, which is a multinational study of violence against dating partners by university students. It presents preliminary data on the prevalence of violence against dating partners, and on violence by parents against children, as reported by students in 31 universities in 16 countries, five in Asia and the Middle East, two in Australi...

Open AccessMental health impacts of interpersonal violence in sportsCarla Edwards, Malte Christian Claussen, and Ralph Erich SchmidtCarla EdwardsDr. Carla MD, Michael G. DeGroote School Medicine, McMaster University, Waterloo Regional Campus, 10B Victoria Street South, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, N2G [email protected]://orcid.org/0000-0002-2256-1963 Department Psychiatry Behavioral N...

Recently, a colleague and fellow psychiatrist who works in an adjacent locked psychiatric unit was the victim of an attack by a patient. He replayed the scenario to me, and 1 of the scariest things about the event was that it seemed to occur without any provocation: the male patient lunged over the nursing station, grabbed him by the collar of his white coat, and proceeded to assault him. Altho...

THE authors have encountered the problem of sexual ideations or dreams in sedated or anesthetized patients in their own anesthesia practices, in reports from colleagues, through expert witness testimony, and in the review of contemporary civil and criminal proceedings. A recent review article examined the roles of the benzodiazepines (especially midazolam), propofol, and nitrous oxide in produc...

Implicit attitudes are mental states that appear sometimes to cause agents to act in ways that conflict with their considered beliefs. Implicit attitudes are usually held to be mere associations between representations. Recently, however, some philosophers have suggested that they are, or are very like, ordinary beliefs: they are apt to feature in properly inferential processing. This claim is ...

Two hypotheses have been offered to explain the relation between testosterone and antisocial behavior in delinquent and criminal populations. One is that testosterone leads directly to antisocial behavior. The other is that a constellation of dominance, competitiveness, and sensation seeking associated with testosterone leads to either antisocial or prosocial behavior, depending upon an individ...