Vinod Kumar Gupta

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Does failure have any value?

Why scientists must share their failures Failure moves research forwards 4th May 2017 We don’t ask people in other professions to do it, but it’s vital for speeding up progress in crucial areas of...

10 January 2019 2,313 9 View

What would migraine and other primary headache scientists like to forget?? And why????

1. Lateralization of headache. 2. Blood-brain barrier. 3. Plasma glutamate cannot freely cross the BBB. 4. Plasma magnesium cannot freely cross the BBB. 5. Cortical spreading depression till...

10 December 2018 3,272 3 View

What is the role of electricity in the language, composition, and output of the human body and of non-human denizens, and of life in general?

Are we creatures of electricity? How does the transformation of a unknown dimension transform itself into a known commodity that is utilized by the human / non-human creatures that abound on Earth...

28 November 2018 1,046 3 View

Is scientific discovery a multi-part random act, a primal action of inspiration, or data crunching?

03 AUGUST 2018 NATURE Gigantic review of German science recommends more data and diversity Big data and diversity lacking at Germany’s biggest science organization.

09 August 2018 9,516 1 View

Is medical science fundamentally divorced from common sense or logic?

Science is an oversimplification or a simple explanation for a seemingly complex observed phenomenon--this is a universal definition applicable to all branches of science. Science is not a simple...

30 August 2017 1,581 2 View

Has a homonymously-distributed positive scintillating scotoma ever been described in / by a migraine patient?

This is one of the toughest questions in migraine pathophysiology. I have described my own scintillating scotoma in the attached file. I am currently in the process of submitting an exhaustive...

24 August 2017 3,967 3 View

Music does not help autism--how do such clinical trials start, as hopes are raised to be dashed only?

The medical profession allows nutty trials, fooling the participants who are already over-stressed. This is nothing but a SHAME and a SCAM. I would not be surprised if there were to be a trial of...

01 January 1970 6,082 2 View

What humans do best -- thinking

We think, therefore, we are. I start this thread, to celebrate and never end, our quest as a thinking species. "There is the churning and the boiling of the sea, and the foam on top of it and...

01 January 1970 5,997 11 View

Propranolol -- what is/are the pharmacologic mechanism(s) of action of this forgotten molecule in the prophylaxis/prevention of migraine attacks?

Propranolol came into migraine research by pure accident or simplistic chance or retrogressive serendipity in 1967, leaving science and the migraine research community to struggle for its...

01 January 1970 8,913 3 View

Dooes smoking cigarettes trigger migraine? How?

Nicotine has a powerful neuroendocrine effect. Does nicotine cause or protect against migraine attacks? What are the mechanisms involved? Antimigraine action of nicotine: theoretical basis and...

01 January 1970 2,871 2 View