Patients' preferences for seclusion or forced medication in acute psychiatric emergency in the Netherlands.

Objectives: This study examined patients' preferences for coercive measures in case of emergency situations on acute psychiatric wards.

Methods: From November 2004 until January 2006, 104 adult patients completed a questionnaire after they underwent seclusion, nonconsensual medication, or both on one of three acute psychiatric wards in the Netherlands.

Results: Equal numbers of patients preferred seclusion and medication, and both measures were equal in perceived aversiveness and perceived efficacy.

Is syntax separate or shared between languages? Cross-linguistic syntactic priming in Spanish-English bilinguals.

Much research in bilingualism has addressed the question of the extent to which lexical information is shared between languages. The present study investigated whether syntactic information is shared by testing if syntactic priming occurs between languages. Spanish-English bilingual participants described cards to each other in a dialogue game.