Peter Singer is used to controversy—indeed, he seems to court it—but nothing could have prepared him for the reaction which followed his recent review of Midas Dekker’s Dearest Pet for the on-line version of Nerve magazine. Dekker’s book is a social, historical, and psychological examination of bestiality, and Singer’s review has been widely perceived as condoning the practice. The horrified re...

A central argument of Drs. Eta S. Berner and Mark L. Graber’s review is that feedback processes are crucial to enhancing or inhibiting the quality of diagnostic problem solving over time. Our goal is to enrich the conversation about diagnostic problem solving by presenting an explicit model of the feedback processes inherent in improving diagnostic problem solving. We present a simple, generic ...

This study provided controlled observations of a potential mechanism for the determination of the repetitive, aberrant perceptions or interpretations of everyday events that figure prominently in a range of psychological disorders: the adventitious reinforcement of acts of cognition by the actual consequences of concurrent motor acts. Adults made a series of two-choice brightness discrimination...

Licorice extract has long been known as a natural sweetener and thirst reliever. Many people who take large amounts are prone to complications overestimate its nutritional benefits. Glycyrrhetic acid, the active metabolite in licorice, inhibits 11-ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase enzyme type 2 causing increased cortisol levels hypernatremia, hypokalemia. In this case report, we ensure holistic st...