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Transl Lung Cancer Res
August 2024
Division of General Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
Coron Artery Dis
August 2024
Clinical Skills Center, Clinical Medical College and Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, LuZhou, Sichuan Province, P.R. China.
J Relig Health
August 2024
Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Joseph L. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, Mail Unit #15, NY, USA.
Patients may feel "lucky" or "unlucky" regarding disease, but questions arise about what they mean. Interviews suggest that US patients often invoke luck in trying to understand why diseases occur and treatments succeed/fail, and do so in the context of religious and spiritual beliefs, struggling with whether luck comes from God; and feeling luck is involved at various points, whether good or bad, regarding the whole or just aspects of an illness, and reflecting personal traits or single events. Social contexts can affect these views.
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April 2019
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States of America.
Background: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) has been associated with brain-related changes. However, biomarkers have yet to be defined that could "accurately" identify antidepressant-responsive patterns and reduce the trial-and-error process in treatment selection. Cerebral blood perfusion, as measured by Arterial Spin Labelling (ASL), has been used to understand resting-state brain function, detect abnormalities in MDD, and could serve as a marker for treatment selection.
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January 2019
University of Pittsburgh, 4200 Fifth Avenue, 15260 Pittsburgh, USA. Electronic address:
Moral philosophers and psychologists often assume that people judge morally lucky and morally unlucky agents differently, an assumption that stands at the heart of the Puzzle of Moral Luck. We examine whether the asymmetry is found for reflective intuitions regarding wrongness, blame, permissibility, and punishment judgments, whether people's concrete, case-based judgments align with their explicit, abstract principles regarding moral luck, and what psychological mechanisms might drive the effect. Our experiments produce three findings: First, in within-subjects experiments favorable to reflective deliberation, the vast majority of people judge a lucky and an unlucky agent as equally blameworthy, and their actions as equally wrong and permissible.
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