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Thinking Internationally

Dreams Bring Lucidity to Our Thinking

exist. At the same time, he was aware that he was thinking, and he was able to contemplate his own thoughts. Scientists call this reflection on one’s own thinking “metacognition” – a skill that so-called lucid dreamers have, as well. Elisa Filevich and Simone Kühn at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin are studying which brain regions are particularly pronounced in lucid dr...

Thinking outside our cages.

Researchers seem to be stuck reiterating the now-familiar argument that barren boxes are bad for welfare and that rodents are due ethical consideration. But the prerequisites for real progress are new kinds of arguments, new types of data, and removal of very real practical and cultural obstacles to implementation of meaningful enrichment. We must discover what we have to do to effectively chan...

From Particularities to Context: Refining Our Thinking on Illness Narratives.

This paper examines how illness narratives are used in medical education and their implications for clinicians' thinking and care of patients. Ideally, collecting and reading illness narratives can enhance clinicians' sensitivity and contextual thinking. And yet these narratives have become part of institutionalizing cultural competency requirements in ways that tend to favor standardization. S...

HIV result giving. Is it time to change our thinking?

BACKGROUND Ensuring patients receive post-test discussion when collecting HIV test results is an integral component of the HIV testing process. New South Wales Health Department (NSW Health) policy recommends that all patients be given their HIV results in person. We assessed the number of patients who returned for HIV test results to Royal Prince Alfred Sexual Health Clinic in Sydney, Australi...