The gastric cardia: what it reveals about our society

The World Beyond Our Borders What Might Our Students Need to Know About It?

I have been asked by APA to discuss the relevance of the rest of the world to American psychology students. This assignment grows out of a new wave of concern about America's place in the world. Economic and political events of the 1970s have increased the conviction in many circles that American college students are not obtaining a realistic picture of their place in the world from their colle...

Neuroimaging of schizophrenia: what it reveals about the disease and what it tells us about a patient.

Neuroimaging in psychiatry, and in schizophrenia in particular, moves ahead at a rapid pace delivering new insights into the nature of the illness and its intriguing symptoms via technologies such as MRI, fMRI, PET, and SPET scanning. How do these impact on understanding the patient in front of us? What do they mean for the busy clinician in clinic? We outline some of the recent findings in neu...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

What is our contract with society?

I recently interviewed a young woman for a summer job in our division who had just graduated from college and was preparing applications for medical school. Partly to enhance her medical school applications, but mostly because of her own inner beliefs, she had worked part-time at a number of places over the past few years that dealt directly with attempts to correct some of the problems in our ...

What Difference Reveals About Similarity

Detecting that two images are different is faster for highly dissimilar images than for highly similar images. Paradoxically, we showed that the reverse occurs when people are asked to describe how two images differ--that is, to state a difference between two images. Following structure-mapping theory, we propose that this disassociation arises from the multistage nature of the comparison proce...