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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.
March 31, 2009
Category: Ethics
Nature Clinical Practice Neurology has a salient article on ethics and medicine. The article asks the question: is it ethical to confront an individual with whom you do not have an official doctor-patient relationship, if you think they have a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:23 PM • 9 Comments •
March 29, 2009
Category: Infectious Disease
A new Science paper shows cell-to-cell transfer of fluorescent HIV virus...Cool!
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 9:10 PM • 7 Comments •
March 27, 2009
Category: Sex
What you think about during sex matters. A guy who doesn't want to, ahem, proceed too quickly will think of baseball or something non-sex related. A girl who wants to proceed more quickly might focus on surrounding milieu of a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:43 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Intelligence
Numerous studies have attempted to correlate general intelligence with different anatomical measures. (You might even argue that the phrenologists were working in this vein.) Likewise many studies have attempted to relate intelligence to the function of different brain regions --...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:28 AM • 7 Comments •
March 25, 2009
Category: Technology
Wired Science reports on a way to bleach your hair without all issues of...you know...turning it so stiff and destroyed that it resembles a donkey tail. All you women of the world itching to turn blonde, take note. The system...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 11:14 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Economics
I caught this interesting sentence over at Marginal Revolution: as consumption approaches satiation, workers reduce their hours of work to prevent themselves from actually reaching satiation. More technically, as workers approach satiation, their labor supply curves start to "bend backwards."...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:48 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
I know this will be of interesting for about 1 in a hundred of you, but there is a REALLY good review of hippocampal and parahippocampal region connectivity in April's Nature Review Neuroscience. Of special interest, there is an interactive...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:32 AM • 3 Comments •
March 24, 2009
Category: Neurological disease
I have been reading more on the Natasha Richardson story overnight, and it appears the story has moved into blame-placing mode. (For the original discussion of the story, read this.) Possible places to lay the blame (that I have read...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:00 PM • 17 Comments •
March 23, 2009
Category: Neurological disease
So I am way behind the news cycle on this, but I wanted to comment briefly on actress Natasha Richardson's death as a result of an epidural hematoma. From everything I read, she seemed like a very good actress, a...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 3:06 PM • 12 Comments •
March 18, 2009
Category: Neurodegenerative disease
The New Old Age blog at the NYTimes -- hadn't read it before, but I like it -- has a post about reversible causes of cognitive decline in the elderly. I think they make a really good point: there are...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 12:11 PM • 5 Comments •
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