“Looks Can be Deceiving”: An Innovative Way to Teach Nursing Students about Substance Use Disorder

“Looks Can Be Deceiving”: Adrenal Teratoma Causing Diagnostic Difficulty

Teratomas are unusual tumours that derived from totipotent cells with their origin from more than one or usually all three germ cells. Here authors are presenting a case of primary retroperitoneal tumour that is a rare clinical entity. A 19-year-old male presented with right lumbar pain and was found to have complex cyst with large calcification in right adrenal gland on imaging. Intraoperative...

Looks Can Be Deceiving: Reconsidering the Evidence for Gliotransmission

Gliotransmission, a process involving active vesicular release of glutamate and other neurotransmitters by astrocytes, is thought to play a critical role in many brain functions. A new paper by Nedergaard et al. (2014) identifies an experimental flaw in these previous studies suggesting that astrocytes may not perform active vesicular release after all.

Dancing wheelchairs: an innovative way to teach medical students about disability.

Duckietown: An Innovative Way to Teach Autonomy

Teaching robotics is challenging because it is a multidisciplinary, rapidly evolving and experimental discipline that integrates cutting-edge hardware and software. This paper describes the course design and first implementation of Duckietown, a vehicle autonomy class that experiments with teaching innovations in addition to leveraging modern educational theory for improving student learning. W...

Appearances can be deceiving.

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