Review: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain

Medication Error, What Is the Reason?

Background: Medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. We introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. Case: A 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. Unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some preven...

Reason , Emotion and Information Processing in the Brain ∗

Building on evidence from neurobiology and neuroscience, we model the physiological limitations faced by individuals in the process of decision-making that starts with sensory perception and ends in action selection. The brain sets a neuronal threshold, observes whether the neuronal cell firing activity reaches the threshold or not, and takes the optimal action conditional on that (limited) inf...

Descartes on love and/as error.

medication error, what is the reason?

background: medication errors due to different reasons may alter the outcome of all patients, especially patients with drug poisoning. we introduce one of the most common type of medication error in the present article. case: a 48 year old woman with suspected organophosphate poisoning was died due to lethal medication error. unfortunately these types of errors are not rare and had some prevent...

Practical Reason and the Possibility of Error