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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.
DISCLAIMERS: 1) Jake Young is not a licensed physician (yet). He is merely a medical student. The information published on this site is not intended for use in medical decision-making. Please seek advice from a licensed, medical professional before making any health decisions. 2) The opinions expressed are my own. They do not represent the views of SEED magazine or the educational establishments I currently attend or attended in the past.
November 29, 2007
Category: Ethics
I wrote earlier today about mercury and autism, and how I thought a criticism of an earlier paper on statistical grounds was fair. Some of the commentors including Orac took me to task saying that the original analysis was indeed...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 7:29 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: Autism
I was struck by this paper that came out in the Journal of Child Neurology, looking back at previous study of mercury levels in autistic children. DeSoto and Hitlan looked back at Ip et al. 2004, a case control study...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:37 AM • 8 Comments •
November 28, 2007
Category: Genetics
Wang et al., publishing in PLoS Genetics, looked at the genetic diversity in Native American populations from Canada all the way down into South America. They wanted to see whether the genetic diversity observed in Native peoples correlated in any...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:56 AM • 5 Comments •
November 26, 2007
Category: Haha, a funny
Having a ball pit in your living room may be expensive, but it is still totally awesome. Comic from xkcd....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:56 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Alzheimer's
You look away from a field for two seconds, and they get all crazy on you... I used to do only molecular biology focusing primarily on neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's. Since I moved to a lab that studies behavior, I...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:52 AM • 0 Comments •
November 19, 2007
Category: Ethics
Revere has spoken out in support of Michael Siegel at The Rest of the Story. Dr. Siegel is a public health specialist that focuses on among other things the effects of second-hand smoke. Siegel took Action for Smoking and Health...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:14 PM • 9 Comments •
November 16, 2007
Category: Neuroscience
I wrote before about how there has been a bit of a debate about whether the hippocampus is involved in encoding spatial maps or is involved more generally in relational memory. Well, the argument for general relational memory just got...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:06 PM • 1 Comments •
November 14, 2007
Category: Funding
OK, so I am going to go on a tiny rant. Forgive me. I would just like to thank President Bush for vetoing the omnibus spending bill that includes the NIH budget. Because it is not like any of us...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:30 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Public Health
Yay us? More than 1 million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year -- the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. "A new U.S. record," said Dr. John M....
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:18 PM • 4 Comments •
Category: Healthcare
(I am going to try not to go on a big rant here; we'll see how well that goes.) Jonathan Cohn wrote an article in The New Republic looking at one of the critiques of universal health care: that it...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:04 PM • 5 Comments •
