Winter excess morbidity: is it a summer phenomenon?
The data serendipitously indicate an alternative hypothesis - that winter excess morbidity is a feature of health benefits derived in the summer and differentially available to the more affluent, such as opportunities for outdoor leisure. This hypothesis deserves testing in a study designed for that purpose, although it is not entirely satisfactory as an explanation of existing data.
Hemispherical distribution of brain activation correlating with speech sound processing in aphasia can change during the first months after brain injury. Event-related potentials are a potentially useful method for detecting individual activation patterns relevant to recovery in aphasia rehabilitation.