Yeah, today’s a big day, there’s a LOT I’ve written on depression, but do not fret, we will get through it all!!! You can’t get through a whole day on depression without talking about some serotonin a little! Hang on to your hats: Serotonin Oh yeah, she went there. Photo courtesy of The Loom […]
Welcome to depression post three, part of Back to Basics week at Neurotic Physiology! 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 […]
Welcome to day 3 of Back of Basics Week! And it’s Wednesday. Hump Day. The boring, most depressing day of the week (except possibly for Monday). What better day to get some basics on depression? So here’s the first one, the first in a trio of posts on clinical depression:
First in our back to basics series, a very important topic indeed. Neurotransmission is at the basis of everything you read about MRI, neural circuitry, how areas of the brain communicate…basically a LOT of neuroscience requires that you know something about neurotransmission. I suppose I thought for a while that if I was talking about […]
You’ve all heard it takes two to tango. And it certainly takes two (or more) to argue. And now, apparently it really does take two to have a conversation. Stephens et al. “Speaker–listener neural coupling underlies successful communication” PNAS, 2010.
I’m sure that most people know that anorexia occurs more often in women than in men, though overall in about 0.3-0.6{9f43b4361d9a125bc126dd2a2d1949be02545ec69880430bc4fed2272fd72da3} of the population. What a lot of people DON’T know is that anorexia nervosa is a highly heritable disease. In fact, cases of anorexia nervosa have been reported as early as the 16th century […]
Sci had a chance to blog an interesting paper on the value of cocaine in rats (as compared to nice stuff like sugar), and someone pointed out to her that the authors had done a follow up! I think what they found in this followup is really rather exciting and has some very interesting implications […]
It’s been a while since Sci covered a good post on stimulants, and I’ve begun to feel the lack. I start to get the shakes, as it were. And this post covers something particularly interesting about cocaine, something VERY interesting about refined sugars, and even more interesting, this paper looks at some of the bugs […]
Sci would like to start this whole thing off on the right foot, and introduce you all (if you’re new to Scientopia and to Neurotic Physiology) by reposting one of the best posts Sci ever wrote. Unfortunately it was also about the 3rd or 4th blog post that I ever wrote as well. I guess […]
Today’s post comes to you from several tweets that Sci received way back in the mists of time (that is…two weeks ago. Three? Something like that). Sci got wind of this paper and has been meaning to blog it for a while, but other things get in the way, like other things will. And when […]