Neuroscience: This Is Not a Spider

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.

Nukuhiva Berland, 1935 is a troglobitic wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae), not a nursery-web spider (Pisauridae).

The monotypic genus Nukuhiva Berland, 1935 with N. adamsoni (Berland, 1933) as type species, is re-described and transferred from the Pisauridae Simon, 1890 (fishing or nursery-web spiders) to the Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833 (wolf spiders) based on genitalic and somatic characters. Nukuhiva adamsoni, originally described from French Polynesia, appears to inhabit mountainous habitats of volcanic o...

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...