April 29, 2008
Category: Links
My exams begin on Friday, so things are going to be pretty quite around here until around mid-May. I will post various bits and pieces over the next couple of weeks, but in the meantime, here are some interesting links...
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April 21, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Our German counterparts at ScienceBlogs.de have produced this 21-minute video of an interview they did with neuroscientist Eric Kandel, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on the cellular and molecular mechanisms of...
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Category: Academia
Here's something that I'll almost certainly be entering in two years' time (when, if all goes according to plan, I'll be a Ph.D. student again): Wellcome Trust and New Scientist essay competition The Wellcome Trust is inviting postgraduates in science,...
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April 20, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions through the membrane of the giant axon of Loligo. Get more documents Docstoc is a useful tool for sharing PDFs, PowerPoint presentations and Word and Excel documents. It can also be used...
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April 16, 2008
Category: Books
On this day in 1943, Albert Hofmann (right), a chemist working for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz, discovered the psychedelic properties of LSD. Hofmann had actually first synthesized the drug 5 years earlier, as part of a research program in...
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April 15, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
I've just got the feedback on my final piece of coursework, and it's better than I expected: A well written description of TrpM8 function in cold sensation. It is written clearly and in the context of experimental evidence. Some additional...
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April 13, 2008
Category: Evolutionary Biology
One of the events organized for Bora's visit to London was a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of the Darwin Centre, a newly built section of the Natural History Museum which houses the museum's researchers and contains a vast collection of...
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April 12, 2008
Category: Pseudoscience
Please be aware that I do not endorse any of the products being advertised by Proximic at the bottom of the side bar on the right. I am responsible for the content of the side bar on the left and,...
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April 7, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
A 58-year-old man from Cumbria has had electrodes implanted his brain in order to treat his compulsive gambling.Raymond Mandale (right), who suffers from Parkinson's, claims that his gambling habit was caused by a prescribed drug he had been taking to...
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April 6, 2008
Category: Neuroscience
What with the current debate about the use of "smart" drugs by academics, I thought it pertinent to republish this old piece from January of last year, about a bacterial toxin which has been shown to enhance fear conditioning and...
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