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The Evil Monkey has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from a southeastern U.S. university. After a postdoctoral nightmare of Inquisitorial proportions, he is currently working in a laboratory and an adjunct assistant professor at a nearby state university.
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May 29, 2009
Category: Academia
Some of us survive this crappy job market by working as research assistants and adjuncting on the side. It pays the bills and allows us to expand our professional skills. Usually, though, it's hard to find a lot of satisfaction...
Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:10 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Friday Weird Science
And so, the word of the day is: rhinotrichtillomania. Say that three times fast. rhinotrichtillomania, rhinotrichtillomania, rhinotrichit...crap.
Posted by Scicurious at 12:15 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2009
Category: Synaptic Misfires
Tonight, Sci is in the lab. It's 11:40pm, and counting. I will probably cop out shortly before 1am because I'm a chicken that way. Been here since 8am, when I found out that the freezer that stores my carefully sampled...
Posted by Scicurious at 11:57 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
So what do you need to make a groundbreaking paper (in this case a paper in Nature)? Some juice, some air, and a couple of monkeys.
Posted by Scicurious at 12:41 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2009
Category: Synaptic Misfires
Isn't "quark" a great word!?! Quarkquarkquarkquark. I think it may have more appeal than "spork" and that's saying something. Hehe. Quark. google_ad_client = "pub-0796843367768563"; /* 468x60, neurotopia */ google_ad_slot = "0450471034"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; //--> src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> Anyway,...
Posted by Scicurious at 3:07 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blog Carnivals
Is up! And we're in it. Two posts on Opponent-Process theory! I highly recommend this edition, there's an entire section on addiction, including an article on the addictive potential of marijuana, and another on the myth of dopamine and pleasure...
Posted by Scicurious at 9:27 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2009
Category: Addiction
Sci continues her discussion of opponent-process theory in this second installment, with many thanks to Koob and his co-author, Le Moal.
Posted by Scicurious at 12:24 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 22, 2009
Category: Friday Weird Science
However, for all that we have fifty million words for "penis", "sex", and "hard-on", there are actually still doubts about how things like erection actually WORK.
Posted by Scicurious at 12:20 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 20, 2009
Category: Academia
Why you need to quit screwing around and get your challenge grants
Posted by Evil Monkey at 9:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Addiction
So what is the opponent-process theory? The opponent-process theory (hereafter called the OP Theory) is one of the current theories we are using to understand addiction. Because, to be honest, we don't really understand it.
Posted by Scicurious at 12:22 AM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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