What the PLAB did not Teach Me

What Kind of Free Will Did the Buddha Teach?

Tell me, what did you see? The stimulus on computers.

Most psychology experiments start with a stimulus, and, for an increasing number of studies, the stimulus is presented on a computer monitor. Usually, that monitor is a CRT, although other technologies are becoming available. The monitor is a sampling device; the sampling occurs in four dimensions: spatial, temporal, luminance, and chromatic. This paper reviews some of the important issues in e...

The courage to study what we wish did not exist.

This editorial marks the final issue of Volume 15 of the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (JTD). Much like the work of compiling manuscripts for this volume, it reflects a collaboration between the editorial assistant (Smith) and the editor (Freyd). We bring to this editorial our perspectives from our JTD work but also our insights from work as researchers of institutional betrayal. Most recent...

Microglia Responses in Acute and Chronic Neurological Diseases: What Microglia-Specific Transcriptomic Studies Taught (and did Not Teach) Us

Over the last decade, microglia have been acknowledged to be key players in central nervous system (CNS) under both physiological and pathological conditions. They constantly survey the CNS environment and as immune cells, in pathological contexts, they provide the first host defense and orchestrate the immune response. It is well recognized that under pathological conditions microglia have bot...

What the Wright Brothers Did and Did Not Understand About Flight Mechanics—In Modern Terms

When the Wright Brothers began their work at the end of the 19 century there were no theories of aerodynamics or of flight mechanics. Data were available for the lift and drag of certain kinds of airfoils, mostly thin and highly cambered imitations of birds’ wings. The theory of airfoils began in 1902, but had no practical consequences until World War I, and was unknown to the Wrights and their...