Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
... of complaints and higher malpractice risk.We must remember that we accepted the duty of caring for patients when we entered medicine, and we must continue to practice with professional attitudes and behaviors no matter what the pressures we face. I believe strongly that we can address our share of the crisi...Emotional memory study reveals evidence for a self-reinforcing loop
... time by recollecting those events, you would also remember the emotional response. It could be like a loop in which the amygdala interacts with the hippocampus." According to Dolcos, this memory loop could help understand the searing recall of traumatic memories in people with post-traumatic stress disorder....Molecule important in cell construction also critical in learning and memory
... which is the area of the brain that enables us to remember people, places and things. "If the mice don't have -adducin, they can't make a new map," Picciotto said. "It's not enough to just have the electrical properties, the skeleton is very important in making long-lasting changes between nerve cells that r...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...recent model of behavior that their children could remember and emulate, but our data did not show a significant result for late quitting," Bricker said. One possible explanation, he said, was lack of statistical power in their data; there simply were not enough young-adult quitters whose parents were late qu...A Family's Guide to Living with HIV
...IV programs around the country. "It's important to remember that there is more to the child in our clinic than just his or her disease," says Dr. Cox, who sees virtually all children in Indiana afflicted with HIV at the Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease at Riley Hospital. Dr. Cox and Shalkow...Older people with the 'Alzheimer's gene' find it harder to 'remember to remember' even if healthy
...r problems with prospective memory, the ability to remember what to do in the future. For the group studied, ...ele. On a task in which participants were asked to remember to write a certain word when they saw a target word, the carriers showed significantly worse prospec...Spinal repair pioneer to speak in NY on 20th Jan
...r. The cars are still able to travel, the drivers remember where they wish to go, the tanks are full of fuel. The situation will not be repaired by adding more cars, or filling up the tanks to overflowing. What is required is to repair the roadway, to lay a bridge over the gap. "The pathway taken by nerve ...A proverb a day may make you healthier
...nt information about healthy living. "People often remember proverbs although they may not remember tables of data on calories or metabolic rates," says Choi, whose current research interests include ...New theory chalenges current view of how brain stores long-term memory
How do you remember your own name? Is it possible ever to forget it? The memory trace, or engram, "feels" like it is stored permanently in the brain and it will never be forgotten. Indeed, the current view of memory is that, at the molecular level, new proteins are...Do cigarette additives pose additional risk to smokers?
...ed with smoking. Accordingly, they urge smokers to remember that regardless of the findings from testing, there remain significant risks from smoking even "additive-free" cigarettes. Next Steps LSRO will now embark on the next phase of the project, evaluating the impact of individual additives....Holidays, birthdays and postponement of cancer deaths
...flect a general tendency for people to selectively remember positive events. He says while some may feel the findings of the study take away the hope of a prolonged life, others may see them in a different light. "I think all of us may know or have heard of someone 'hanging on' through the holidays o...Fair decisions more important when hospitals face crisis like SARS
...isis hit Toronto," she added. "It is important to remember and draw lessons from the difficulties inflicted on everyone -- medical personnel, SARS victims, non-SARS patients and their families alike."...Youki spray curbs spread of superbug MRSA
...ay is called Youki "we wanted people to be able to remember the name," says Jolly. Youki is currently being trialled in private hospitals in the UK by staff specializing in wound management. Wounds are only washed once, at the start of the healing process, then not allowed to get wet at all. "You need to spr...Thanks for the memories: cinematic portrayal of amnesia is profoundly misleading
...cter finds it difficult to retain new information, remember names or know where she is going or why. The film also shows the frustration of those around her, and although she is a comic character, it reflects her vulnerability when she finds herself alone, lost and profoundly confused. The widespread influen...Infants, children prefer sounds over pictures and only slowly become visually oriented, studies find
...a geometric shape paired with a sound and asked to remember it. The researchers told the children explicitly t...attention to the shape: "Don't forget, you have to remember the picture!" They were then shown a second shape-sound combination and asked if it was the same as ...Increased suicide rate is possibly linked to chemicals released from nearby asphalt plants
...vidson said the most important point for people to remember is that effective treatments exist for suicidal depression. Given that suicide can be a tragic consequence to depression, people who are experiencing persistent symptoms of depression should contact their health-care provider for a professional evalu...Holiday feasting could sabotage liposuction results
...or of the study. "This is especially important to remember as we approach the holiday season when people are invited to more parties and social activities where diet and exercise may be overlooked." According to the study, patients play a considerable role in the long-term success of their liposuction res...Humble Planaria worm offers ideal model for drug withdrawal research
...ng behaviors. They can even learn." Some might remember Planaria from biology experiments in grade school. According to Raffa, the worm was a popular research model in the 1960s, but hasn't been used much since. Because of its many advantages, however, he predicts they might experience a resurgence of use...Brains of people with autism recall letters of the alphabet in brain areas dealing with shapes
... people who do not have autism, people with autism remember letters of the alphabet in a part of the brain that ordinarily processes shapes, according to a study from a collaborative program of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health. The study was c......ronto, CANADA -- What happens in the brain when we remember our own past? Researchers are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to probe brain activity in search of the answer. According to a new fMRI study using a "diary" method to collect memories, it all depends on what we're thinking about!...