Two comparable samples of college men and women from 1966 and 1996 were compared using the Kurtz Body Attitude Scale (BAS; R. M. Kurtz, 1966). As predicted, women in 1996 reported a significantly more negative body attitude than women in 1966 did. No significant differences in the 2 samples of men were found. With the 1996 sample, the relationship between body attitude and self-esteem was also examined using Marsh's Self-Description Questionnaire-III (SDQ-III; H. W. Marsh & R. O'Neill, 1984). There was a significant relationship between body attitude and general self-esteem, and there were also complex gender differences in the relationships of various SDQ-III facets to body attitudes.

Factors that may be associated with successful weight loss in the obese are of clinical and theoretical significance. Although perceived behavioral control (PBC) had been shown to predict weight loss in a nonclinical population, it had not been used to predict weight loss in the obese. We studied obese women enrolled in a 15-week structured weight loss program and hypothesized that PBC would predict weight loss for low binge eaters better than for high binge eaters. Results indicated that the ability of PBC to predict weight loss immediately posttreatment and 6 months posttreatment depended on binge eating severity, whereas prediction of group attendance was independent of binge eating status.

The association between aphasia and the central nervous system has a long and rich history which is reviewed here from the time of the ancient Egyptians to 1861, the year in which Broca presented his celebrated case of "Tan." It is shown that the association between cortical damage and aphasia did not originate with Broca's "discovery" in 1861, and that Broca's historic frontal lobe localization was the result of an ongoing process involving the slow development and gradual confirmation of debated hypotheses. In particular, the ideas of Gesner, Gall, and Bouillaud stand out as meriting special recognition in the history of localization and aphasia.

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