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Bhopal: No Silver Linings

In the November 2003 issue of EHP, Liu et al. (2003) concluded that " relatively low concentrations of gaseous air pollutants are associated with adverse effects on birth outcomes. " Although this may be true from a purely statistical sense, there appear to be limitations of this research that suggest cautious interpretation of the findings. Liu et al. (2003) evaluated individual-level birth ce...

Learning from silver linings

The cardinal goal of decision neuroscience is to identify the neural mechanisms that translate external rewards into an internal sense of value (Rangel et al., 2008; Huettel, 2010; Glimcher, 2011; Rangel and Clithero, 2012). The brain region most commonly associated with “reward” has been the ventral striatum (vStr, neurosynth.org forward inference, 1/2013). Studies of fMRI activation and neuro...

Gray Hair, Silver Linings, and the WDS

“Gray Hair and Silver Linings”was an editorial by Frank Bruni published in The New York Times on Sunday, November 9, 2014. As my hair is silver and my 65 birthday is in the rear view mirror, I read this article with great interest and downloaded it for future reference. The author recounted a “wake-up” episode he experienced in the waiting room of a dermatologic surgeon anticipating the removal...

Silver Linings in Federal Civil Justice Reform

Silver linings for patients with depression?

Depression has become one of the biggest health problems globally, but in certain places more than in others, suggesting cultural as well as biological causes. Neuroscientists are only beginning to understand underlying processes and to develop effective treatments for those cases where conventional psychotherapy and drugs fail.