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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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Category: Neuroscience
So sometimes, Sci gets questions, and sometimes those questions...are close enough to requests. And so, today Sci will begin what is probably going to be an extensive basic series on oxytocin. We ALL love oxytocin, right? Right! And we all...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:55 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
As some of my readers from WAY back (all two of you, hi guys!) may know, diabetes is one of Sci's favorite things. It's one of those things that, if she could start her entire little sciency life over, would...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:10 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academia
Sci is back from SFN, but she is by no means done with the neuroblogging! Unfortunately, due to a crazy schedule and spotty wireless, Sci was not able to get as much neuroblogging in as she wanted. So she's going...
Posted by Scicurious at 11:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Sci got this comment to her Ritalin post the other day: It sounds like you are suggesting that cocaine taken in the same form as Ritalin -- as low-dose, slow release pills -- would produce the same effects as the...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:29 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
Sci feels really famous today! That's because someone actually emailed her to ask her a question!!!! This makes her feel very knowledgeable and wise, even though she had no idea what the person was asking and had to look it...
Posted by Scicurious at 12:05 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
There once was a sad undergrad and her memory, oh it was BAD! But she read this science note and science poetry she wrote and her orgo chem grades now are rad!
Posted by Scicurious at 12:51 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
dopamine can have some pretty big effects on things like, for example, motivated movement (Parkinson's), or disregulated motivational processes (drug addiction). But what about touch?
Posted by Scicurious at 12:50 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
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!
Posted by Scicurious at 12:54 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
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...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:53 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Neuroscience
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
Posted by Scicurious at 10:16 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
