A Dream... or Was It?

Was it a vision or a waking dream?

Reminiscent of Wilder Penfield’s famous experiments, Neurologists in France have reported a remarkable case in which intraoperative electrical stimulations of the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC) in a conscious patient induced transient dreamlike states with vivid visual imagery (Herbet et al., 2014). The implicated circuitry and nature of the experiences evoked comparisons with findings from o...

It was logical but was it the whole truth?

Calcific aortic stenosis (AS) was initially characterized as a degenerative process (disorder) because of a tendency to describe any disorder that was not well understood and often occurred in the ‘elderly’ as degenerative. In the last ‘15–20’ years, the observation of the presence of risk factors for arterial atherosclerosis in patients with calcific AS, the production of aortic valve calcific...

Murder, she wrote or was it merely selective nontreatment?

Was It Malarious Fever or Sun-Stroke Cured by Quinine?

days. What is this "terrible disease" that is cured so easily and safely with quinine? "true cases of insolation"? JSo, I say, most assuredly no-, hundreds upon hundreds of Europeans, Military and Civilian, in India, have lost their lives from this " terrible disease" in the past, and many do now, annually, for want of the great antidote, whose value and power is not known to the mass, even of ...

A collaborative initiative: pipe dream or possibility?

Students of social sciences and economics are familiar with and have had lengthy discussions about the game theory known as the “prisoner’s dilemma.” The “prisoner’s dilemma” was created by Merrill Flood and Melvin Dresher in the 1950s and later formalized by Albert W. Tucker. The theory behind this game reveals why two people may not cooperate even if it is in the best interest of both parties...