First of all, a big warm welcome to Kim H, whose blog, All my faults are stress related, has just become the latest scienceblog! I hadn’t read her until now, but I love it already. So I’m sure you’ve all heard by now about that pink dolphin that was spotted a couple of times. It […]
Ok, the serotonin theory of depression may not be wrong. But it is definitely incomplete. One might ask why we use serotonergic drugs to treat depression if the theory behind it is wrong. A good question, but to this I say: because it worked. This is post four of my series on depression. For previous […]
I’ve had some sturm und drang over this post. I’ve been wanting to do a basic post on serotonin, but I’ve also been wanting to do a post on the serotonin theory of depression (and why it is at the very least incomplete). The idea of a serotonin post is a significant challenge, but the […]
The other title of this post is “what happens when you leave a guy alone on a desert island for a few weeks”, and the other OTHER title of this post is “people who are obsessive enough to measure their body hair”. But what, you may ask, is the real title of the PAPER? Anonymous. […]
How I deal with the pacing of my lectures. Dirty tricks included.
About a week ago, a prof in my MRU loaned me a book he’d just read, saying it would be right up my alley. He was very right. I couldn’t put it down. It’s already changed a great deal about the way that I think about addiction, as well as the way I think about […]
Actually, I would like to dedicate this post to the lovely Stephanie Zvan of Almost Diamonds. This is because Stephanie recently sent Sci her blogging muse: an entire box of dark chocolate Moose Munch!!!!!! Moose Munch is indeed Sci’s muse, and could not have come at a better time. Stephanie Zvan is awesome for any […]
Every so often, Sci wishes she had a life outside the lab. So then Mr. SiT takes her away from it all for a weekend. This is super fabulous, and Sci has a wonderful time, coming back refreshed and rejeuvenated to… …her overflowing email …her hungry cat …her overflowing desk …etc and in the heat […]
Welcome to depression post three! Previously I covered the symptoms and etiology of depression, and some of the most common antidepressant medications and how they work. Now I’d like to go into some of the research behind it. After all, it’s not like we just grab a depressed person and say “here, take this and […]
This is another post along the lines of the odd things that get off certain members of the humans species. I’m sure some of us wish we were these people, but in some cases (like this one), it’s not a fortunate as you might suppose. Chuang, et al. “Tooth-brushing epilepsy with ictal orgasms”. Seizure, 2004, […]