I Have Never Liked the Term “Compliance”

I Have Never Liked the Term “Compliance”

Dynamic computation of incentive salience: "wanting" what was never "liked".

Pavlovian cues for rewards become endowed with incentive salience, guiding "wanting" to their learned reward. Usually, cues are "wanted" only if their rewards have ever been "liked," but here we show that mesocorticolimbic systems can recompute "wanting" de novo by integrating novel physiological signals with a cue's preexisting associations to an outcome that lacked hedonic value. That is, a c...

I went; I saw: I was never the same!

The most memorable patient I never saw.

Soon after midnight, after a busy day on the inpatient psych unit, I slipped into a deep sleep. Then the phone rang in the residents’ on-call room. “Dr. Lazarus?” the voice on the other end inquired. “Yes,” I replied, half asleep. “This is Dr. Hendricks (not her real name) in the ER. Are you the on-call psych resident tonight?” “I am,” I answered drowsily. Every physician knows that nightly awa...

‘He Never Liked Sport Anyway’ - Mother's Views of Young People Coping With a Bone Tumour in the Lower Limb

PURPOSE Treatment for a bone tumour can compromise quality of life (QOL), especially for young patients. We used qualitative methods to assess mothers' views of patients' experiences and their coping strategies at approximately 6 months after diagnosis (T1: n=12) and 12-18 months later (T2: n=11). SUBJECTS Mothers of young people (aged 6-22 years) who were undergoing treatment for either oste...