This study suggests the need for increased attention to TBI and its cognitive, behavioural and psychiatric sequelae in jail populations.

A remembrance ceremony allows researchers to acknowledge their indebtedness to animals Last year, millions of mammals-including dogs, cats, rodents, rabbits, and monkeys-were killed in US laboratories.1 We usually give little thought to this sacrifice, one that allows the development of new medicines and the chance for us as medical students and physicians to perfect our practical procedures. We rarely discuss our feelings about animal experimentation. Whether or not it is ethical to use animals in research, it is important to recognize their suffering and death. Our university's initiative to remember laboratory animals that have died is part of a global movement of remembrance. What does this movement hope to achieve?Three years ago at the University of Washington, a group of students held a memorial ceremony for the university community to acknowledge the animals used in its biomedical research. It is now an annual event. Activists by nature, we were interested in influencing the way in which we think about and practice modern medicine. Most of us were influenced by Buddhism, which emphasizes human respect for animals. Many of us had spent time caring for and about animals at different times in our lives and so were struck by the way in which animals were discussed in medical school lectures in a detached and abstract wayfor example, as "animal models." While our school held 2 memorial events each year for the people whose bodies were used in anatomy training, nothing was done to acknowledge the 3,100 fellow primates and the 126,000 other animals used annually. Rather than joining 1 side of the usually polarized debate, we saw that as medical students and soon-to-be physicians, we could honor these deaths without making a stand for or against the use of animals in scientific research. Our focus was the contribution of these deaths and the suppressed emotions of laboratory workers, and we drew atPlease see this article on wjm's web site for a link to a list of resources