Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.
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Posted on: December 5, 2006 11:18 AM, by Jake Young
Encephalon #12 is up at AlphaPsy.
The Neurophilosopher has a cool article on Phineas Gage -- a patient that is often used as an example in neuroscience classes because he had a railroad spike tamping iron go through his head and cause personality changes.
The Mungers at Cognitive Daily are starting a podcast. Nice.
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An error in your first sentence caught my eye. It wasn't a railroad spike. It was a tamping rod.
Funny what a person stores in long term memory. I recalled this from a visit to the Waren Museum at HMS 45 years ago. As far as know, I hadn't thought about this between then and now.
Posted by: Thomas Weston | December 6, 2006 8:25 AM
You're right. My bad.
Posted by: Jake Young | December 6, 2006 12:59 PM