recent research from a number of clinical trials has shown that transdiagnostic cognitive-behavioral therapy is efficacious, having shown comparable effects on primary anxiety disorder diagnoses as traditional diagnosis-specific cbt, and highly economical for treatment providers. however, a majority of anxiety disorder patients present with two or more “comorbid” diagnoses at once. given that t...

In this paper, we are mainly concerned with consistency-based diagnoses for systems represented in a propositional framework. Several characterizations of such diagnoses (mainly minimal diagnoses, kernel diagnoses, MT-diagnoses) have been proposed so far. Unfortunately, minimal diagnoses, and MT-diagnoses characterize only some consistency-based diagnoses and the set of kernel diagnoses for a s...

Bedside ultrasound is a useful tool to the clinician evaluating a possible emergency medical condition. The use of ultrasound by clinicians, from emergency physicians to surgeons to family practice physicians, is increasing. With increased use, unusual or unexpected findings will occur. The clinician-sonographer should be aware of the potential limitations as well as the possible incidental fin...