The concept of evidence has become central in Western healthcare systems; however, few investigations have studied how the shift toward specific definitions of evidence actually occurred in practice. This paper examines a historical case in psychiatry where the debate about how to define evidence was of central importance to nosological decision making.
Archive for May 2013
Reducing the risk of depression and suicide due to economic crisis – Development of support to reduce the risk of depression and suicide linked with job loss or financial difficulties
A Tricky Object to Classify: Evidence, Postpartum Depression and the DSM-IV
Face Your Fears: A Proven Plan to Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and Obsessions
Percent of Births Outside Marriage, 1960-2008/2011, Selected Countries
Genetic moderation of the association between regulatory focus and reward responsiveness: a proof-of-concept study
Long-term criminal outcome of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Voters with Disabilities: Challenges to Voting Accessibility, GAO-13-538SP
Perceived Stress and Depressive Symptoms Among Latino Adults: The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity Cluster Patterns
New Directions in Urban Environmental Justice: Rebuilding Community, Addressing Trauma, and Remaking Place
Impact of quality improvement strategies on the quality of life and well-being of individuals with spinal cord injury: a systematic review protocol
The Experience of Thinking: How the Fluency of Mental Processes Influences Cognition and Behaviour
When retrieving a quote from memory, evaluating a testimony’s truthfulness, or deciding which products to buy, people experience immediate feelings of ease or difficulty, of fluency or disfluency. Such “experiences of thinking” occur with every cognitive process, including perceiving, processing, storing, and retrieving information, and they have been the defining element of a vibrant field of scientific inquiry during the last four decades. This book brings together the latest research on how such experiences of thinking influence cognition and behavior.