Sometimes a Colonnade is Just a Porch

SomEtimES a WinnEr iS a DrEamEr Who jUSt Won’t QUit

HISTORY The optimal ACL reconstruction is still a highly demanding clinical issue in orthopaedic research. In vitro and in vivo studies highlight that pure single bundle ACL surgery is not completely able to functionally restore knee rotational stability patterns. In the past few decades, several surgical reconstructions, combining intraand extra-articular procedures, have been proposed with th...

Review Symposium Sometimes an Orgasm Is Just an Orgasm

Sometimes a noun is just a noun: comments on Bird, Howard, and Franklin (2000).

Bird, Howard, and Franklin (2000) have proposed a semantic-conceptual explanation of grammatical category-specific deficits that attributes impairments in noun and verb processing to two distinct mechanisms. According to their account, apparent deficits in verb production are not category specific, but rather result from the lower imageability of verbs compared to concrete nouns. Noun deficits ...

Rebuttal: When it comes to scientific inference, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

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Can status epilepticus sometimes just be a long seizure?

Commentary Status epilepticus (SE) is a grave, life-threatening neurological emergency requiring rapid administration of definitive therapy to avoid irreversible brain injury (1), but it seems paradoxical that many children who experience it do surprisingly well. For instance, children who experience SE are no more likely to go on to develop chronic epilepsy than those who experience an ordinar...