Nancy is 47 years old and the mother of three children. Her first child, Abby, is from her first marriage and is currently a freshman in college and living out of state. Nancy also has a daughter, Rachel, who is 11, and a son, Matthew, who just turned 8 from her current marriage. Nancy is a schoolteacher and her husband, David, sells surgical equipment to health care providers around the countr...

Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis is a rare disease of the nervous system which causes one to lose his/her feeling of pain. The disease is subtype four of hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy (HSAN IV) that results from NTRK1 gene defect. Direct sequencing was performed to screen NTRK1 for mutations. The result revealed a homozygous deletion of adenine on intron 14 that ma...

This article explores the life and importance of Mary in Islam and Christianity, aiming at clarifying the criteria for which Mary has been revered in each tradition. It will be shown that Mary in Christianity is almost merely important because she was the mother of Jesus, while the Muslim reverence for her is based on her own noble characteristics. From the Muslim perspective, even if Mary had ...

The feeling of body ownership is a fundamental aspect of self-consciousness. The underlying neural mechanisms can be studied by using the illusion where a person is made to feel that a rubber hand is his or her own hand by brushing the person's hidden real hand and synchronously brushing the artificial hand that is in full view. Here we show that threat to the rubber hand can induce a similar l...

455 A 16-year-old girl presents to her physician with a sixmonth history of fatigue, insomnia, lack of energy, a 10-pound weight loss, and disinterest in friends and school. Three months ago, after a fight with her boyfriend, she took several aspirins to “fall asleep and not wake up”. She wishes to be dead but has no plans to kill herself. In the past month, she has self-lacerated her wrist twi...

What transpires in the minds of violent criminals? Do their actions follow from uncontrollable impulses or simply reflect an absence of moral feeling? Abby Stein’s (2007) response is that violence is “...the inevitable outcome of severely damaging early interpersonal relationships” (p. 38). Her work as a forensic psychologist and Adjunct Associate Professor at the John Jay Criminal Justice prog...

A Little while ago Mrs. A., a housewife in ^rpington, went on a bus. Though it sounds the east remarkable thing in the world, it was a tr'Umph in its way?because Mrs. A. had for Months had a fear of leaving her own house, which dipped her with a panic hand if she as much as stepped across the threshold. Marooned in her semi-detached just as irrevocably, it seemed, as a castaway, Mrs. A. had rea...

Look at Megan. Not just at her distinctively chimpanzee features – her accentuated brow ridge, her prognathic face, her coarse, black hair – but at the totality of her being; her darting eyes, her slow, studied movements, the gestures she makes as her companion, Jadine, passes nearby. Can there be any doubt that behind certain obvious differences in her appearance, resides a mind nearly identic...

Subclavian Artery Thrombosis (SAT) typically arises secondary to some form of injuries and arthrosclerosis. The contributing factors are coagulopathies and emboli. And, the conserving blood is naturally reflowed from circle of Willis. A cold, painful, cyanosis, and pulseless upper extremity are proved as the symptoms. Recently, a 42-years-old smoker, diabetic, and hyperlipidemic woman was admit...

Community participatory research with deaf sign language users to identify health inequities. Primary prevention of childhood lead exposure: A randomized trial of dust control. 43 Korfmacher KS. Boundary networks and Rochester's " smart " lead law: The use of multidisciplinary information in a collaborative policy process. For some reason, it's always the bruises I remember first. The colors an...