The Educational Climate Inventory: Measuring Students' Perceptions of the Preclerkship and Clerkship Settings.

Purpose: To develop an instrument to assess educational climate, a critical aspect of the medical school learning environment that previous tools have not explored in depth.

Method: Fifty items were written, capturing aspects of Dweck's performance-learning distinction, to distinguish students' perceptions of the educational climate as learning/mastery oriented (where the goal is growth and development) versus performance oriented (where the goal is appearance of competence). These items were included in a 2014 survey of first-, second-, and third-year students at six diverse medical schools.

Disability from "soft" neuropsychiatric sequelae due to frontal lobe injury.

Each year about 1.5 million people suffer from a traumatic brain injury. Many of these are seen in primary care settings and most recover completely.

Sixteen novel mutations in the Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase gene in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a decade of discoveries, defects and disputes.

Objective: Since the discovery of mutations in the gene encoding Cu/Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) ten years ago, testing for SOD1 gene mutations has become a part of the investigation of patients with suspected motor neuron disease. We searched for novel SOD1 mutations and for clinical characteristics of patients with these mutations.

Methods: Analysis was made of patient files at the Neurogenetic DNA Diagnostic Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital.