. Although it may well be unreliable and illogical, is a well-known habit to form firm, lasting, and definite first impressions. That they are often ^accurate and always superficial is to be admitted, but nevertheless they frequently form the basis of our later estimations and prejudice our views for good or evil, the more so when the situation is a new one to us, or one whose arrival we have b...

Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association Falls are common occurrences in the older population and account for considerable morbidity and mortality in this age group. Community-based studies suggest that approximately one-third of people over the age of 65 years will experience a fall within any given year.1-3 In many cases, the injuries sustained from these falls have a significant...

Possible Lines of Approach • Representative status of IM for the Victorian era, poet laureateship • IM and the culture of mourning, public and private, mourning process, melancholia • Form and structure of IM, composition over 17 years, issue of unity vs. division • Poetics: tetrameter, abba rhyme scheme, repetition, use of apostrophe • Comparison with other elegies (e.g. Milton’s “Lycidas,” Sh...

Lord Amulree was unique amongst UK geriatricians in having a 'wide angled' view of the care of elderly people. This resulted from his work at the Ministry of Health, his clinical commitments and his position in the House of Lords, which enabled him to bring the problems of old age, elderly people and infirmity before a much wider audience. It can be argued that his joint Parliamentary Presentat...

. e Marquess of Lothian, Baroness Swanjj?r?ugh, Lord Strabolgi, Lord Wellsestell, and Lord Taylor, who summed the debate. Baroness Elliot referred q? the N.A.M.H., saying that it was "an r?anisation which, I think, has done ?re from day to day, and with ordinary e?Ple, to care for the mentally sick than y other organisation which I know." (toUSE OF COMMONS une 1965 to'8th. Mr. Kenneth Robinson,...

Robert Shulman belongs to a rare breed. On the one hand, he is a true pioneer of MRI, a technology that has galvanised cognitive neuroscience by allowing researchers to trace the flux of metabolic activity in the living brain under diverse experimental conditions. On the other, he is a staunch behaviourist who believes that terms like ‘attention’ and ‘working memory’ should be expunged from sci...

Shulman KI, Sykora K, Gill S, et al. Incidence of delirium in older adults newly prescribed lithium or valproate: a population-based cohort study. J Clin Psychiatry 2005;66:424–7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....