Amir Aharoni, Department of Life Sciences and the National Institute for Biotechnology in the Negev (NIBN), Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel. The size of the microbial world is beyond our imagination. In last year’s crystal ball article, Tom Curtis compared the size of the microbial world to the size of the universe pointing out that the number of microorganisms in the world is billion...

A 29‐year‐old male patient presented with decreased vision for 2 years following electrocution injury (electric cables with 25000 volts). No significant family or ocular history was elicited. He was diagnosed to have pigmentary retinopathy in both eyes clinically. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 6/12, N8 in the right eye and 6/18, N8 in the left eye. Anterior segment examination reveale...

A full particle simulation study is carried out on the electron acceleration at a collisionless, relatively low Alfven Mach number (MA = 5), perpendicular shock. Recent self-consistent hybrid shock simulations have demonstrated that the shock front of perpendicular shocks has a dynamic rippled character along the shock surface of low-Mach-number perpendicular shocks. In this paper, the effect o...

Previous research on sensitization in Aplysia was based entirely on unnatural noxious stimuli, usually electric shock, until our laboratory found that a natural noxious stimulus, a single sublethal lobster attack, causes short-term sensitization. We here extend that finding by demonstrating that multiple lobster attacks induce long-term sensitization (≥24 h) as well as similar, although not ide...

279 Intensive electric shock therapy, i.e., therapy given daily or oftener, has become a validated procedure in the management of acute excitement states( 1-3). This type of treatment has been advocated for curative purposes in both neurotic(4) and psychotic (5, 6) illnesses. It has also been used in the management of chronic psychotic patients (7, 8). This report deals with the use of intensiv...

A 4-interval forced-choice procedure was used to determine the detection threshold for electric shock in psychopathic and nonpsychopathic criminals. The use of a constant-current stimulator, a concentric electrode, and monitoring of the skin-electrode impedance permitted precise control over the characteristics of shock administered. The results indicated that the psychopathic Ss had a signific...