This paper. It’s elegant, it’s beautiful, and I love it. It’s a piece, if it takes off and is replicated, that is going to change the way we think about things, and give us new targets to combat dopamine disorders such as Parkinson’s. In other words, it’s HOT.
So I’m settled down to blogging of an evening, with some chocolate (the leftover Easter candy continues), some wine, and Sci-cat. Sci-cat has a wonderful talent for sitting JUST out of reach, and purring loudly, hoping that you, her servant, will show proper deference and move to pet her. At which point she will move […]
Amphetamines: A history of speed
So Sci pranced around happily with her dictionary for a minute. All I have to do is review it and…and then Sci realized she was going to have to READ THE DICTIONARY.
Ok, I was GOING to post this last night. But Sci’s laptop had epic internet fail. Hopefully it will work again anon. As it is, you’re getting your post late. Sci was going to do something for April 1. Too late now! In the meantime, let’s talk about flushing. Being female, Sci had a certain […]
This group of researchers decided to find out whether specifically activated neurons were essential for memory learning and expression. As you might imagine, what they had to do was pretty insanely complicated, but what they found makes it very well worth it.
…there are lots of hypotheses out there on how music improves certain aspects of brain function. And now, for the first time, researchers actually showed that musical training can change the way the brain develops, not just in terms of eventual function, but in its very structure.
This is post 5 in my ongoing, now-approaching-behemoth-size series of posts on depression. I’ve got other posts available on the etiology of depression, the current pharmacotherapies, studying depression in the lab, and the serotonin theory of depression, which of course you can read and refer to if you’re curious. This post will be on what […]
Dr. Philips was of the firm opinion that there were two kinds of death. The first was the kind where respiration ceased. Then, a person was dead. But they weren’t ALL dead. Just MOSTLY dead.
No, not where ARE you when you think of yourself. Where does it happen? What part of the brain? This question has become very important to the world of cognitive neuroscience recently. We used to think of self-reflection as taking place only in the prefrontal cortex. This would mean that only animals with a well-developed […]