New Blog: Cortical Column

By developinginte… on October 17, 2007.

Cortical Column is a new blog by computational modeler and volleyball freak Brian Mingus - check out the interesting posts on "The Simulation Argument" and Deep Pressure Stimulation, which is argued to simulate deep brain stimulation of intralaminar thalamic nuclei - noninvasively!

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