OBJECTIVE Nightmares are a robust and modifiable predictor of increased suicidality and poor psychiatric outcomes, yet nightmare screening and treatment remain rare, even in sleep centers. This paper aims to examine what proportion of nightmare sufferers have discussed nightmares with a healthcare provider, as well as possible explanations for low rates of nightmare complaints. METHODS The pr...

But the Lord came down to see. .. the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, ''Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do;. .. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.''. .. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all th...

When not performing a task, we are usually engaged in a variety of thoughts, for instance about current problems, opportunities, our self-image, our relationships, about past experiences, and about plans for the future. Such mind wandering was found to occupy almost half of our time spent awake (Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010). Mind wandering may have had the evolutionary advantage of better a...

-The clinical use of the radiosensitizer misonidazole may be limited by the incidence of peripheral neuropathy reported following total doses in excess of 18 g. A recent report noted a decrease in nerve conduction velocity following a single i.p. injection of 1 mg/g misonidazole to mice. The present study was unable to confirm such changes when nerve conduction velocity measurements were made i...