This is not a Biography

Neuroscience: This Is Not a Spider

Long-term memories of fear have been notoriously difficult to alter. A new study finds access through the window of reconsolidation.

No, This is not a Circle

A curve, also shown in introductory maths textbooks, seems like a circle. But it is actually a different curve. This paper discusses some easy approaches to classify the result, including a GeoGebra applet construction.

This Is Not Your Grandfather's Emergency Department.

Why this is not multiple sclerosis: a case based approach.

OBJECTIVE To present a case series of patients previously diagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS) which were later confirmed as an alternative diagnosis, and describe the clinical and paraclinical signs that led to this change. METHOD Nine patients are described. We reviewed the patient's clinical chart, magnetic resonance images (MRI) and cerebrospinal fluid. RESULTS There was a mean of three...

Antenatal Bartter's syndrome: why is this not a lethal condition?

There are four themes in this teaching exercise for Professor McCance. The first challenge was to explain how a premature infant with Bartter's syndrome could survive despite having such a severe degree of renal salt wasting. Second, the medical team wanted to know why there was such a dramatic decrease in the natriuresis in response to therapy, despite the presence of a permanent molecular def...