Modern medicine is a game of reason. The times harmonizing bodily fluids and quackery seem long gone. We no longer believe in phlebotomy or burning women to free our communities from bewitched spirits, even though bloodletting had occasionally worked based on chance for some medical practitioners during the Middle Ages. Individual experience still an invaluable skill any clinician, albeit more ...

This study strives to investigate the importance of ‘education’ and ‘gender’, as two major sociolinguistic variables, in accepting or rejecting the words coined by the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL). A total of 500 students from state universities in Tehran were chosen as subjects and provided with a questionnaire consisting of 50 APLL equivalents. The respondents’ ac...

Long-term modification of synaptic strength is one of the basic mechanisms of memory formation and activity-dependent refinement of neural circuits. This idea was purposed by Hebb to provide a basis for the formation of a cell assembly. Repetitive correlated activity of pre-synaptic and post-synaptic neurons can induce long-lasting synaptic strength modification, the direction and extent of whi...