More and more patients are seeking advice on medical internet forums, which give them the chance to communicate easily with other laypeople as well doctors. Examining a forum acoustic neuroma, this paper investigates features of specific type discourse, in particular how medium influences way communicating information, changing role moderators online environment.

Essentialism is one of the most pervasive problems in mental health research. Many psychiatrists still hold the view that their nosologies will enable them, sooner or later, to carve nature at its joints and to identify and chart the essence of mental disorders. Moreover, according to recent research in social psychology, some laypeople tend to think along similar essentialist lines. The main a...

In tort lawsuits, plaintiffs may seek damages for loss of enjoyment of life, so-called hedonic loss, which occurred as a result of an accident or injury. In 2 studies, we examined how people judge others' adaptation and hedonic loss after an injury. Laypeople's forecasts of hedonic loss are relevant to concerns about whether jurors appropriately compensate plaintiffs. Longitudinal data of subje...

Decisions about whether a person is in need of mental health care are often made by laypeople with no training in the identification of mental health concerns. For example, the parent of a child displaying problematic behavior has to decide whether this behavior is likely related to mental health concerns and necessitates professional care. The process of identifying mental health concerns is m...

Pulver SR, Cognigni P, Denholm B, Fabre C, Gu WX, Linneweber G, Prieto-Godino L, Urbančič V, Zwart M, Miguel-Aliaga I. Why flies? Inexpensive public engagement exercises to explain the value of basic biomedical research on Drosophila melanogaster. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 384–392, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00045.2011.— Invertebrate model organisms are powerful systems for uncovering conserved princip...

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy in the perception of the own facial profi le by subjects and to compare the orthodontist’s perception of attractive profi le with those of laypeople and dental students. Materials and Methods: In this study, 180 subjects (90 dental students and 90 laypeople) from Riyadh province of Saudi Arabia were evaluated by a questionnaire. The questi...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the degree of perception of occlusal plane inclination and mandibular deviation in facial esthetics, assessed by laypeople, dentists and orthodontists. METHODS A woman with 5.88° of inclination and 5.54 mm of mandibular deviation was selected and, based on her original photograph, four new images were created correcting the deviations and creating...

Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality profiles and perception of maxillary midline diastema (MMD) among laypeople. Materials and methods: Hundred total of 200 laypeople (100 females and 100 males, mean age = 28.8 ± 5.5 years) were recruited in this cross-sectional study. They were asked to rate the attractiveness of two digital photographs of ideal ...

INTRODUCTION Previous studies evaluated the perception of laypersons to symmetric alteration of anterior dental esthetics. However, no studies have evaluated the perception of asymmetric esthetic alterations. This investigation will determine whether asymmetric and symmetric anterior dental discrepancies are detectable by dental professionals and laypersons. METHODS Seven images of women's sm...

The aim of this study was to compare smile attractiveness between one, three, and four premolar extraction protocols in patients with Class II division 1 subdivision malocclusions and to analyse the aesthetic influence of buccal and posterior corridor widths on smile attractiveness. The sample consisted of posed smile photographs obtained from 66 subjects, divided into three groups according to...