Using vertical fixation for implantable collamer lens placement may improve clinical outcomes, according to a study published ...

We here use a game-theoretic approach 23 to evaluate the ecological and evolutionary conditions under which individual fixation strategies emerge, and to resolve whether the evolutionary stable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The number of periprosthetic humeral shaft fractures is on the rise related to the increasing performance of ...

The Tyranny of Metrics is a pearl of a book. And like all pearls, it was born of an irritation. As chair of the history department at the Catholic University of America, Jerry Muller found himself — ...

An oral fixation can result if a person doesn’t receive certain stimuli as a child. It can lead to unusual habits in adulthood, such as nail biting and eating ice. In the early 1900s, psychoanalyst ...

Oral fixation may occur if a person’s needs are not met during a specific stage of childhood development, according to a theory introduced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Oral fixations include habits ...

Diagnostic errors crop up in all kinds of settings, often with very serious consequences. What might cause them? The Institute of Medicine report “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care” (Balogh et al., ...

Sometimes, your first idea is not your best one. But you might fixate on it, especially if the idea has worked for you before. In academic terms, this phenomenon is called design fixation. In layman’s ...