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Is modern medicine ill with dehumanization?
Mar 19, 2012 18:53
“Anyone who has been admitted into a hospital or undergone a procedure, even if cared for in the most appropriate way,...
American Academy of Neurology: Neurologists should ask patients about abuse
Feb 3, 2012 5:57
A new position statement issued by the American Academy of Neurology calls on neurologists to begin screening their patients...
How participation rate in studies may affect interpretation of results
Jan 29, 2012 1:55
A paper published in the 6th 2011 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics analyzes the fact that clinical researchers have...
The amygdala and fear are not the same thing
Jan 27, 2012 21:02
In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because...
The impact of deleting 5 personality disorders in the new DSM-5
Jan 24, 2012 19:09
A newly published paper from Rhode Island Hospital reports on the impact to patients if five personality disorders are removed...
A gender-biased metric guides funding decisions in psychology research
Jan 18, 2012 22:02
How do psychologists gauge scientific impact? One way is the so-called “journal impact factor,” or JIF, a ranking of...
Taking another look at the roots of social psychology
Jan 18, 2012 21:56
Psychology textbooks have made the same historical mistake over and over. Now the inaccuracy is pointed out in a new article...
Many NIH-funded clinical trials go unpublished over 2 years after completion
Jan 6, 2012 19:22
In a study that investigates the challenges of disseminating clinical research findings in peer-reviewed biomedical journals,...
The perils of ‘bite-size’ science
Short, fast, and frequent: Those 21st century demands on publication have radically changed the news, politics, and culture—for...
Sociology: A women’s subject with low-status
According to the science hierarchy, sociology has low status whereas mathematics has high status. Both this hierarchy and...
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