…and can mean saying ‘yes’ to innovation

Saying yes to exercise and NO to cardiac injury.

Clinical studies demonstrate benefits of exercise in both preventing cardiovascular disease in the general population and mitigating existing disease in cardiovascular patients.1–3 Systemic effects of exercise on skeletal muscle and peripheral vessels as well as metabolism and insulin sensitivity undoubtedly contribute to these benefits. However, growing evidence from animal studies suggests th...

When Not Saying NO Does Not Mean Yes: Psychophysiological Factors Involved in Date Rape

To understand how a woman who does not want to be a willing sexual partner can at times acquiesce and not fight the date rape predator, the neurobiology of our responses to threat needs to be understood. Under situations of extreme threat, instead of responding just to danger signals with only the options to fight or flee, we also retain in our nervous system a primitive immobilization response...

Teaching white privilege to white students can mean saying good-bye to positive student evaluations.

Advocacy: yes we can.

It is an honor and privilege to address you as president of the American Society for Clinical Investigation. For more than 100 years, this organization has represented the best of physician-scientists. Since it is now 2012, there is the possibility that this could be the last ASCI presidential address. But we will assume the Mayans miscalculated and that we should look to the future. With the A...

Emma Borg Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication

In this paper I want to explore the arguments for so-called ‘unarticulated constituents’ (UCs). Unarticulated constituents are supposed to be propositional elements, not presented in the surface form of a sentence, nor explicitly represented at the level of its logical form, yet which must be interpreted in order to grasp the (proper) meaning of that sentence or expression. Thus, for example, w...