'Tis Better Not to Know. Song

When is it better not to know everything?

table solutions.Myguess is that the real limitation is concern about the medical-legal implications of not following up on incidental findings,3 although therehavebeen fewstudies of such concerns.4 But physicians—not lawyers—create the beast that they most fear, the standardof care.What if all radiology societies declared that, as of a certain date, the new standard of care was erasing or not a...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Molecular approaches to diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis what we know and what we do not know.

Invasive aspergillosis (IA) are a major complication in immunocompromized patients where can be serious and rapidly fatal. Early diagnosis and early appropriate antifungal treatment is important in reducing mortality and morbidity. But despite many efforts to develop detection methods, the diagnosis of IA still remains challenging and current conventional methods are limited for adequate diagno...

do we know what we do not know? a response to celine bonnet

Better Not to Know? Emotion Regulation Fails to Benefit from Affective Cueing

Often we know whether an upcoming event is going to be good or bad. But does that knowledge help us regulate ensuing emotions? To address this question, we exposed participants to alleged social feedback that was either positive or negative. On half the trials, a preceding cue indicated the feedback's affective quality. On the remaining trials, the cue was uninformative. In two different blocks...