Yesterday I was out with my running group, and chatting with an acquaintance. She was saying that someone at her office had accused her of “eating her feelings” when she was stressed. Her: She accused me of eating my feelings! I’m kind of upset she would say that…so I had a cookie, and then a […]
The title for this one comes from those stupid “1 tip for a flat belly!” and “The thing moms know about whitening teeth!” ads that keep popping up for me. You know the ones. Well, now, screw that. WHAT’S more important than getting a flat belly or whitening your teeth?! CURING YOUR AGING NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTIONS!!! […]
One of the problems with depression as a disorder is that the symptoms never seem to manifest the same. To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, here are some of the DSM IV recognized symptoms of depression: 1) Insomnia or hypersomnia (not sleeping OR sleeping too much) 2) Having no appetite OR […]
The short answer from my reviewing of the literature? Not much. And it had so much POTENTIAL! Dangit that’s like blowing the punchline before I tell the joke. I must be becoming my mother… So. I’d like to start this post out with a shout out to the last author (last author on a paper […]
Jason had an idea to do a mini carnival of neuro-type and psych-type bloggers on this, and I though it would be cool, though admittedly right now I’m so swamped for topics I hardly needed another one! But here’s Sci’s Take. (Heh, from here, appropriately enough)
So when Sci got the press release for this paper, it said “PHANTOM IMAGES STORED IN FLEXIBLE NETWORK THROUGHOUT THE BRAIN”. I went “wut?!” and read ahead. Those press releases, how they do lie exaggerate. But this paper is cool and well worth the blogging, so I got myself a tidy little copy and settled […]
Reader David sent me this paper the other day, and asked if I could blog about it. I said ok, maybe, and then I read… …”Gene therapy”… …oooooh… Sounds very cool, doesn’t it? Sounds like the FUTURE! Where’s my JETPACK!!!?!?! But of course “gene therapy” is kind of a buzzword. A lot of people throw […]
Welcome to part 3 in the series of my coverage of LaPlant, et al. 2010. It’s been a long day, and Sci is TIRED. She just ran a 13 hour experiment, and boy is she wiped. But she is also DEVOTED. And also has her teeth well into this paper, and refuses to let go […]
So Sci was sitting in a seminar the other day. We were mentioning this paper, some problems we had with it, some of the things we LIKED about it, and various approaches, etc, in our usual sciencey fashion. As the discussion got intense (in a good way), one of the PIs there leaned over and […]
Sci thought this particular paper was of current relevance, due in part to the public attention that bullying and social rejection has been getting lately. I think it’s really important that this gets in the public eye and that something is done about it, and so Sci will contribute her sciencey best to talk about […]