One Nation Under Therapy: Why Self-Absorption Is Eroding Self-Reliance Christina Hoff Summers and Sally Satel. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005.doi:10.1111/j.1542-734X.2005.00260.xMarshall W. FishwickJohn Wiley & Sons, Ltd.The Journal of American Culture...
Future research should focus on two of the findings from this study. First, how do women decide who the “special” partners are with whom they will have anal intercourse? This has implications for sexual health, and HIV and STI prevention. The women mentioned trust and longer-term ...
The condition should probably just be called plantar heel pain10 or the even less precise plantar foot pain (because some people have more arch than heel pain). In an alternate universe, we might be calling it “calcaneal stress syndrome,” emphasizing the possibility of bone fatigue in the ...
Today, the treatment – now called “electroconvulsive therapy” – still causes headaches and some short-term memory loss, but its success short-circuiting depression has sparked doctors to begin treating other brain illnesses with electricity. For...
This episode takes a look at the broader set of research on teaching children social skills to ask whether we CAN do it and if we can, whether we SHOULD do it and if we should, what kinds of tools should we use? The popular Social Stories method? Role plays? Peer coaching?
People with hazardous or harmful substance use who have not (yet) developed addiction should also be identified, and interventions should be initiated to address their substance-related risks. This is particularly relevant for alcohol, where even in the absence of addiction, use is frequently ...
FES has been used to restore voluntary upper-limb movements in individuals with neurological injuries using FES therapy (FEST) [59,116,144]. It should be noted that subjects are asked to attempt each movement during FEST, while FES is applied by the therapist to assist movement completion. Suc...
Only well designed randomized trials and cost-effective analysis can evaluate whether, or not these approaches should be incorporated into general practice. On the other hand, if IMRT is indicated for another reason, the hippocampus can be considered as other OAR assuming that no other standard ...
should pose no diagnostic problem; marked functional disturbance with swelling will be obvious on physical examination, and the bullet fragmentation with soft tissue disruption will be obvious on biplanar x-rays. As in the therapy of any other form of trauma, objective data should guide treatment ...
One of the key aims when considering the usability of a QoL tool is to assess its ease of use. When the QoL instrument attempts to glean too much information they have a tendency to become less user-friendly. Ultimately, we feel the NEI-VFQ and NEI-VFQ-25 will and should remain the ...