Pseudoepilepsy attempts to define the "clinical aspects of false seizures." It is a multi-authored collection of essays on definition, differential diagnosis, diagnostic methods, etiopathogenesis, and treatment of pseudoseizures. The book has problems relating to: (1) variable quality of chapters; (2) lack of an appropriate audience; (3) omission of some pertinent information; and (4) incorrect...

Centered around his landmark book Diffusion of Innovations, Everett Rogers contributed to the professional literature in a number of fields for more than 40 years. In this article, four of his writing partners briefly examine his impact in the fields of diffusion theory, health communication, and entertainment-education, and in particular his impact on us as writers, as professionals, and as hu...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

Anti-virus does much more than reactively detect known viruses; it proactively scans for unknown ones too. So, how do scanners really work? David Harley has been researching and writing about malicious software and other security issues since the end of the 1980s. From 2001 to 2006 he worked in the UK's National Health Service as a National Infrastructure Security Manager, where he specialized ...

teacher or the practitioner in a referral institution who is looking for extensive background information and literature citations. Rapid advances in biomedical research technology have helped elucidate the structure and function of many components of the human body. Much of brain function, however, still remains enigmatic. Recent advances in computer and engineering technology might help to ch...

As should be evident from reading this book, the psychology of creative writing is complex and multifaceted, and there are many different levels in which it may be investigated. We decided to focus on five levels in this book. There is much overlap, however, among these five levels, and an understanding of one level typically increases our understanding of one or more other levels. Therefore, w...