Now on ScienceBlogs: The Galaxy's Biggest Valentine
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.
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Category: Genetics
Razib and I have a discussion up at Bloggingheads.tv about genetics and behavior as well as a brief discussion of neuroeconomics. Check it out below the fold:...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:06 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Perception
There is a fascinating case study in Current Biology. de Gelder et al. discuss a patient -- referred to as TN to protect his privacy -- who had two sequential strokes that damaged his brain. The parts of the brain...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 6:21 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
A neurological look at some of our worst emotions.
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 5:00 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
The title of this pre-publication paper is, "Evidence on the emergence of the brain's default network from 2-week-old to 2-year-old healthy pediatric subjects." The authors put kids in functional MRIs to measure resting state activity and detect the emergence of...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 4:13 PM • 5 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 •
Category: Neuroscience
This post over at Neuroskeptic reignites a debate -- if it ever really stopped -- as to the role of impaired adult neurogenesis in causing depression and the function of anti-depressants in stimulating neurogenesis to treat the disease. This is...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:17 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
I caught this article in O magazine by fellow ScienceBlogger, Rebecca Skloot of Culture Dish. The article isn't bad. It is about why people have trouble overcoming unproductive habits like trouble exercising. But I want to correct something she says...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:57 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
Seriously, when I read the headlines to this article, I wanted to wretch retch. (Ed. I need to learn how to spell.) Scientists discover true love Scientists: True love can last a lifetime I can feel it welling up now...eh...OK,...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 1:33 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
I caught this article on ScienceDaily about the work of Professor Bart Hoebel at Princeton who has been attempting to show that sugar is an addictive substance like a drug. He presents data at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 8:43 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Neuroscience
Patient H.M. just died: In 1953, he underwent an experimental brain operation in Hartford to correct a seizure disorder, only to emerge from it fundamentally and irreparably changed. He developed a syndrome neurologists call profound amnesia. He had lost the...
Posted by NotoriousLTP at 10:02 AM • 3 Comments •
