ARD Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases Leaders Feeling the pressure The normal synovium occupies a tissue space confined by the joint capsule. This outer limit is sometimes clear, as in the volar plate of digital hinge joints, and sometimes imperceptible, as in the normal suprapatellar region where areolar synovial tissue appears to blend into the interstitial spaces of the thigh. The limit becom...

A locust can make a tasty morsel for a hungry predator, so being able to notice potentially dangerous looming objects and trigger the correct response could save a locust’s life. In locusts, a visual neuron called the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD) spikes in response to looming objects and could therefore be the trigger for escape responses. Tomas Money and colleagues at Quee...

The Kokoda Track, which spans Papua New Guinea's Oro and Central Provinces, has become a site of profound Australian national feeling. Each year, thousands trekkers travel to Guinea “do” the 96-km hiking trail, in remembrance battle waged along it during Second World War. For Province people, meanwhile, Kokoda—denoting both track place where commences—is also intense feeling, albeit ways that a...

There is a large tradition of work in moral psychology that explores the capacity for moral judgment by focusing on the basic capacity to distinguish moral violations (e.g., hitting another person) from conventional violations (e.g., playing with your food). However, only recently have there been attempts to characterize the cognitive mechanisms underlying moral judgment (e.g., Blair 1995, Gold...

Y ou are doing a breast reduction. You have chosen a vertical flap and inverted T incision. You like the vertical reduction and medial pedicle because there is a shorter incision , but you think there will be too much skin excess, so it will be better to excise it now. For some reason, every time you do the inferior pedicle the base of the pedicle becomes thin and narrow. This worries you. You ...

A locust can make a tasty morsel for a hungry predator, so being able to notice potentially dangerous looming objects and trigger the correct response could save a locust’s life. In locusts, a visual neuron called the descending contralateral movement detector (DCMD) spikes in response to looming objects and could therefore be the trigger for escape responses. Tomas Money and colleagues at Quee...

1. Director, Erik Erikson Institute for Research & Education, The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts; Co-director of the Peaceful Schools Project, Child & Family Center, The Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, Kansas and faculty Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Consultant to the FBI Critical Inciden...