Do I really have Asperger's Syndrome? The other day, one of my friends suggested that I was showing some autistic signs, which made me quite worried. I thought something may have been wrong with me. Since then I've taken several AQ tests on the internet and most of them say I may be an "Aspie." I'm too frightened to tell my peers because they'll most like treat me differently, and I'm to embarr...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a common psychiatric disorder. It may go unrecognized, however, as many patients are embarrassed by their symptoms and are thus reluctant to report them. Recent research findings on OCD point to neurologic dysfunction in the circuitry of the orbitofrontal cortex and basal ganglia. The advent of the use of serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SRIs) as well as beh...

When journalists from other countries would ask me in the 1980s how the United States could suffer such embarrassingly large losses in its savings and loan, and later its banking, industry, I would be somewhat embarrassed myself, as an American citizen, trying to explain how things could go so wrong in such a developed country. A decade later, the tables seemed to have turned. Many countries ha...

The third of these assumptions is now all but forgotten (I suspect that homeopaths feel embarrassed by its overt incorrectness), but despite the fact that the two other axioms also fly in the face of science, they still form the basis of homeopathy today. Initially Hahnemann was remarkably successful, and homeopathy conquered much of the world 2. With hindsight, this early popularity probably a...

We introduce a novel framework based on the probabilistic model for emotion wording assistance. The example sentences from the online dictionary, Vocabulary.com are utilized as the training data; and the writings in a designed ESL’s writing task are the testing corpus. The emotion events are captured by extracting patterns of the example sentences. Our approach learns the joint probability of c...

Drawing on positive psychology, i.e. the study of how people flourish and thrive, (MacIntyre, Gregersen Mercer, 2016), this paper aims to analyse elements which learners regard as most important have enjoyable experiences in English classroom. The participants are first-year university students enrolled an for Specific Purposes course that were inquired about their life-long trajectories studyi...

Case Report A 67-year-old right-handed male who had suffered an ischemic left basal ganglia stroke with right hemiparesis was evaluated for post-stroke rehabilitation therapies. He had undergone comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation six months earlier. When he was discharged home, he required supervision for upper and lower body dressing but was at a “modified independent” level for ambulation...

Food allergies present numerous challenges to coping in everyday life. Even simple things like planning a lunch with a friend can be stressful for people with food allergies. But are some people more adversely impacted by having a food allergy than other people? This paper addressed this question by investigating whether individual differences in the Big Five personality traits (neuroticism, ex...