Are comic books an effective way to engage nonmajors in learning and appreciating science? (65/89)

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"PDSA-ADHD": a newly reported syndrome. (66/89)

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Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation in children. (67/89)

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The physician as writer. (68/89)

A surgeon, turned writer, discusses his experiences and the perils of changing professions. He reminisces about his early formative years, growing up in Troy, New York, and investigates the beauty of language and the pitfalls of misuse.  (+info)

Infant humor perception from 3- to 6-months and attachment at one year. (69/89)

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Joyful and serious intentions in the work of hospital clowns: a meta-analysis based on a 7-year research project conducted in three parts. (70/89)

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Simulation of Mendelism revisited: the recessive gene for attending medical school. (71/89)

Much of the recent confusion concerning studies of complex phenotypes such as neuropsychiatric disorders may derive from the inappropriate assumption of simple Mendelian transmission. This has sometimes led to unrealistic expectations regarding the potential benefits of linkage studies. To investigate how Mendelism may be simulated, we collected data on a common familial behavioral trait, attendance at medical school, among the relatives of 249 preclinical medical students. The "risk" of first-degree relatives going to medical school was approximately 61 times that of the general population. Complex segregation analysis carried out under a unified model provided strong evidence of vertical transmission. The results were compatible with transmission of a major effect, and a recessive model provided as satisfactory a fit as a general single-locus model. Moreover, a commonly applied test, allowing the transmission probability parameter (tau 2) to deviate from its Mendelian value, did not give a significant improvement of fit. Only a more general model where all three transmission probabilities (tau 1, tau 2, and tau 3) were unrestricted resulted in a significantly better fit than did the recessive model.  (+info)

Sex differences during humor appreciation in child-sibling pairs. (72/89)

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