Theoretical neuroscience has experienced explosive growth over the past 20 years. In addition to bringing new researchers into the field with backgrounds in physics, mathematics, computer science, and engineering, theoretical approaches have helped to introduce new ideas and shape directions of neuroscience research. This review presents some of the developments that have occurred and the lesso...

It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis Moore Lappé, and Barry Commoner, among others) thre...

(on the shoulder of reinforcement learning and decision making models) What are the big problems that neuroscience could solve? • mood disorder (Depression, Bipolar ..) : ~ 10% of the population (at some point in life) in US • anxiety disorder (Panic, OCD, PTSD): ~18% of the population • addiction: alcohol ~ 10% of the population (at some point in life) • eating disorder (Anorexia, Bulimia): ~ ...

A report of a patient with Lazarus phenomenon (the return of spontaneous circulation after cardiopulmonary resuscitation) following cardiac arrest (myocardium ischemia) is presented. A 65 year patient was found unconscious at home. He taken to the emergency department On arrival he was unconscious, his pupils fixed and dilated bilaterally. Resuscitation proceeded for 55 minutes. He was then pro...

A continuing, oft-expressed concern about the legal system, in the English-speaking world at least, is the rising cost of legal services, whether civil or criminal. Given the labour-intensive nature of legal services, this is not surprising to an economist, as we discuss below. In order to be effective, policy must be informed before reforms are considered, lest reforming zeal be dissipated ine...

The artist is a landscape painter whose work addresses issues of land use and development. She is particularly inter­ ested in the many ways our built envi­ ronment has changed over time in re­ sponse to changes in our culture. She is currently an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She holds a BA from Yale and an MFA in painting from the University of Michi­ gan. To view mor...