SSRIs: Talkin’ ’bout Prozac

I’m still getting a lot of questions on depression, a lot of misconceptions about how the drugs work. So I’m going to provide a little more information. And this time, you’re also getting PICTURES!

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Imaging a Superior Mnemonist

In neuroscience, we spend most of our time trying to understand the function of the “normal” brain — whatever that means — hence, we are most interested in the average. Under most occasions when scientists take an interest in the abnormal neurology, it is usually someone with who has something wrong with them — has […]

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The Music of the Brain

The important part of this paper isn’t the figures. It’s the audio files. I’ll be including them in the links, and I definitely recommend a listen

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Things I like to Blog About: Neurotransmission

I suppose I thought for a while that if I was talking about dopamine and serotonin and GABA and things enough, people would just kind of “get” neurotransmission. And most people do. But it’s still a good thing to cover, partially because it’s kind of mind boggling to think about (well, Sci finds it mind-boggling), […]

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