Author: Durezernab Berki

Following an explosion, brain injury does not just come from direct impact to the head, but instead can start from just the exposure to the blast. Primary blast injury is the direct result of an overpressure wave (Xu et al. 2016). It can arise despite there being no visible head contact or trauma. It is…

One of the leading causes of death worldwide is strokes, with more than 795,000 people experiencing a stroke each year in the United States (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2025). It is pertinent that the mechanism of predicting stroke is optimal, and that requires constant innovation and modification to current prediction clinical practices. In…

It has become common to refer to scams as ‘snake oil’, a term originating from the original snake oil scam back in the 19th century. Clark Stanley, the fraudulent salesman, took the idea of using snake oil from Chinese practices and sold a product known as Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Liniment (Weill Cornell Medicine, n.d.-b;…

The 2007 report “Brain of a white-collar worker” by Dr. Lionel Feuillet, Henry Dufour, and Jean Pelletier, describes the case of a 44 year old with a history of childhood postnatal hydrocephalus. His CT and MRI scans revealed massive enlargement of his ventricles (Figure 1) (Feuillet et al. 2007). A few weeks after a ventriculoperitoneal…

On September 7th of 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian journalist, was allegedly pricked by an umbrella on Waterloo Bridge in London (Nehring 2017). A tiny metal pellet that released ricin, a deadly protein poison, was found in his leg following his death. The murder weapon nor the killer were ever identified. This case can be…

Public executions, considered unjust by most countries, are still practiced in some regions. There have been 27 public executions from 2006-2008 in North Korea and 157 during 2015 in Saudi Arabia (Gilbert 2017; Database Center for North Korean Human Rights 2009). To understand the unjust nature of public executions, particularly hangings, increased biological, psychological, and…

Genocide is not history, it is still happening today. The Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang China are subjected to forced sterilizations, surveillance in re-education camps, and sexual abuse (The Associated Press 2020; Maizland 2022). While science perturbates genocide, from the psychology driving the perpetrators to the scientific advancement that help them with their oppression, it can…

Providing and caring for children is a vow some parents break, choosing to neglect and abuse them. Sometimes, maltreatment can even lead to death, like in the case of ten-year-old Canadian Aurore Gagnon who was slowly beaten to death by her stepmother, Marie-Anne Houde, and father, Télesphore Gagnon, in 1920 (Brief Case 2023). Aurore, though…

From the 15th to the 18th century, two million sailors met their demise simply because they were unable to consume enough Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid (Asc) (Carpenter 2012). Though scurvy, a deficiency of Asc, was a menace to the navies during this historic period, it is something that can theoretically affect anyone…

An incurable disease that deteriorates the brain at a rapid pace and leads to the inevitable fatality of its victim seems like something out of a nightmare. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare degenerative brain disorder belonging to a group of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a group of prion diseases that cause tiny holes in the…