ABSTRACT: This Editorial introduces the thematic series on 'Toward a New Psychiatry: Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Classification, Diagnosis and Care' http://www.biomedcentral.com/series/newpsychiatry.

ABSTRACT: A report on the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory meeting on 'Personal Genomes', Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA, 30 September to 2 October, 2011.

The 21st Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) was held on 28-31 May 2011 in Lisbon, Portugal. Over 3400 participants attained the meeting. The ENS meeting is an international event, which offers an exclusive opportunity for excellent continuous education, as well as an update of cutting-edge research in all ...

Neurotechnology provides means to engage micro- and macrostructural networks of the brain to both mitigate the manifestations of several neurological and psychiatric disorders, and alter cognition and motoric activity. Such capacity also generates questions of how these interventions may affect personal identity. This paper discusses the ethical implications regarding changes ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting was held in Toronto, Canada from 10-17 April, 2010. As usual, multiple sclerosis (MS) featured prominently with about 450 poster and platform presentations on various aspects. Highlights were presentations on the controversial theory of venous obstruction as a cause of MS and ...

More than 3000 neurologists attended the 20th Meeting of the European Neurological Society (ENS) and participated in the exciting and highly scientific programme. Eighty per cent of the submitted abstracts, which covered all aspects of neurology, were accepted. One major symposium, 16 oral presentations and 112 posters on multiple sclerosis ...

Dramatic advances in the understanding of the neurobiological bases of human behavior have prompted excitement and controversy surrounding the ethical, legal, and social applications of this knowledge. The authors critically examine the promise and challenges of integrating genomic and neuroimaging techniques into legal settings. They suggest criteria for enhancing the ...

INTRODUCTION: Little is known about the first Catalan neurological societies. Our aim was to analyse them from the formation of the pioneering Society of Psychiatry and Neurology of Barcelona founded in 1911. DEVELOPMENT: We performed a literature search using MEDLINE using the key words: neurological societies, using the doctoral thesis ...

The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Annual Meeting was held in Toronto, Canada from 10 to 17 April, 2010. As usual, multiple sclerosis (MS) featured prominently with about 450 poster and platform presentations on various aspects. Highlights were presentations on the controversial theory of venous obstruction as a cause of ...

Themed Virtual Issue Key papers in Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology on: Copyright © 2011 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Several organizations have developed guidelines to help authors and editors of medical journals negotiate ethics dilemmas in publishing, but very little is known about how these guidelines translate to the context of forensic psychiatry. In this article, we explore the important topic of ethics in forensic psychiatry publishing. First, we ...

Breaches of ethics are prevalent in biomedical publishing. Kapoor and colleagues identify several of the practical and ethics dilemmas that they have encountered in editing The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Biomedical publishing ethics is continually evolving, with discrepant practice among different publications. Publication ethics ...

The 51st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology was held in Tokyo (Tokyo International Forum) from Thursday, May 20 to Saturday, May 22, 2010 with as many as 5,471 attendants. Our Society has been celebrating its 50th anniversary during the period from 2009 through 2010. At the 51st ...

Basal iguanodontian dinosaurs were extremely successful animals, found in great abundance and diversity almost worldwide during the Early Cretaceous. In contrast to Europe and Asia, the North American record of Early Cretaceous basal iguanodonts has until recently been limited largely to skulls and skeletons of Tenontosaurus tilletti. Herein we describe ...

The oncoproteins MDM2 and MDMX negatively regulate the activity and stability of the tumor suppressor protein p53 and are important molecular targets for anticancer therapy. Grafting four residues of p53 critical for MDM2/MDMX binding to the N-terminal alpha-helix of BmBKTx1, a scorpion toxin isolated from the venom of the Asian ...

Some surgeons are beginning to doubt the reliability of bone cement in joint replacements. In 1967 Robert Mathys conceived the idea of an isoelastic prosthesis made of plastic, which would anchor into the bone without cement. He developed the idea by extensive tests in animals and, in 1973, the first ...

Examination of 400 Saxon, Romano-British, and mediaeval skeletons from seven archaeological excavations in the west of England showed an unexpectedly high incidence of osteoarthritis and osteophytosis. Three skeletons had evidence of an erosive peripheral arthritis-one with probable gout, one probable psoriatic arthropathy, and one with possible rheumatoid arthritis. The pattern ...

Three hundred patients with grass pollen hay-fever, with or without pollen asthma, were given one of three forms of treatment: preseasonal or coseasonal alum-precipitated pyridine extracted grass pollen (Allpyral) or methylprednisolone acetate in slow-release form (Depo-Medrone). Significant improvement was obtained with preseasonal Allpyral and with Depo-Medrone, but the degree of ...

Protryptiline, a new antidepressant, was evaluated in a double-blind study. Results were compared with those obtained in similar groups of patients treated with imipramine and amitryptiline. After full psychiatric and medical assessment, patients were rated on a "target-symptom" scale, were assessed weekly and underwent a number of tests before and ...

Simultaneous tests with 5 TU of the purified tuberculins PPD-S and RT 19-20-21 were given to 1617 schoolchildren in Muscogee County, Ga., and Russell County, Ala., USA. Contrary to findings reported from other places, in this area the qualitative differences between the two antigens were considerable. Low-grade tuberculin sensitivity, presumably ...

The molar extinction of rhodopsin is 40,600 cm.(2) per mole equivalent of retinene; i.e., this is the extinction of a solution of rhodopsin which is produced by, or yields on bleaching, a molar solution of retinene. The molar extinctions of all-trans retinene and all-trans retinene oxime have also been determined ...