Diminished, sidelined

Transgender patients sidelined by attitudes and labelling.

In spite of an enlightened constitution and enabling legislation, South Africa's small transgender population continues to battle medical prejudice and ignorance in addition to huge societal pressure to conform to socially constructed sexual stereotypes. An Izindaba investigation showed that transgender people need precise information and deep pockets to access hormone treatment and/or gender-r...

Sidelined: employment relations in professional sports

Diminished Rationality, Diminished Responsibility

Star players sidelined in chloride homeostasis in neurons

The chloride ion (Cl−) is the most abundant physiological anion and is involved in many cellular functions including intracellular membrane trafficking, volume control, and excitability, as well regulating shortand long-term plasticity in neurons (Woodin et al., 2003; De Koninck, 2007; Raimondo et al., 2012; Succol et al., 2012; Stauber and Jentsch, 2013). The intracellular chloride concentrati...

Self-enhancement diminished.

Self-enhancement is a positive bias in self-perception, which may imply error. However, conventional measures of self-enhancement are difference scores that do not distinguish a positive bias from a self-enhancement error, that is, they fail to identify those individuals who hold an irrationally or inaccurately positive view of themselves. We propose 2 new measures to separate error from bias. ...