FRUITLESS SUCKING- AND IDIOCY.

Spinsters, Synaptic Defects, and Amaurotic Idiocy

In this issue of Neuron, Sweeney and Davis present a beautiful characterization of Drosophila mutants in a gene named spinster. The results indicate a function of the endocytic pathway in regulating transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling at the Drosophila motor synapse. This study provides important new information at an intersection of several disciplines, including membrane traf...

Congenital Idiocy, Sexual Infantilism, and Dwarfism

Congenital hypopituitarism is a relatively rare condition, as is congenital idiocy. For this reason, their simultaneous presence in the same patient can hardly be attributed to chance. The occurrence of both of these clinical features in two patients stimulated this report. It is hoped that the publication of cases, exhibiting clinical combinations of this type, may eventually allow for a more ...

[Sucking in preterm newborns and the sucking stimulation].

BACKGROUND Non-nutritive sucking stimulation may anticipate the beginning of oral feeding and may influence the development of sucking in pre-term newborns. AIM To describe the development of the sucking pattern and the effects of NNS. METHOD Participants of this study were 95 preterm newborns (PTNB), adequate for their gestational age (GA), born with GAs inferior or equal to 33 weeks, rand...

Thumb and finger sucking.

Avoiding Long and Fruitless Dialogues in Critiquing

An important issue in critiquing approaches to product recommendation is how to avoid long and fruitless critiquing dialogues when none of the available products are acceptable to the user. We present a new approach called progressive critiquing in which the non-existence of a product that satisfies all the user's critiques triggers an explanation alerting the user to the possibility that none ...