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December 8, 2007
Wow, it's been a little while since I last blogged. I've been busy trying to stain the eyes of my zebra fish, but still with little luck. My goal is to dye the retinas and their resulting optic nerves and neural pathways of developing zebrafish. After staining the retinas and optic nerve, I was…
November 23, 2007
Today I'm looking at synaesthesia, but more specifically lexical-gustatory synaesthesia in which certain phonemes (smallest unit of speech such as the /l/ sound in jelly) trigger specific tastes. For example, in Jamie Ward and Julia Simner's (2003) report, Lexical-gustatory synaesthesia: linguistic…
November 16, 2007
This week I've been diving in a little more into doing some actual research myself. Nothing breakthrough mind you, just some simple experiment to sort of understand the world around and inside of me a little better. My partner and I are looking into how the optic nerve develops inside of zebra fish…
November 10, 2007
We've been talking quite a bit about how information is processed in our brains so that a specific reflexes and cognitive actions can be produced. It's also the end of the cross country season and my mind has been mixing the two. Take Steve Prefontaine (one of the greatest American long distance…
October 26, 2007
Hello again, it's been a while so I thought I'd drop in a comment or two about what I've found recently in the news about neurobio. I've lately been reading about neurotransmitters and how they bind to sites in specific neurons, instigating depolarization across the membrane of the neuron and…
October 13, 2007
We are about to finish Soul Made Flesh by Carl Zimmer in class this week and I've been reflecting on how, despite science's deep impact on how we think and act, we still have subconscious belief in superficial myths that slip out despite our common knowledge of biology and the world around us. For…
October 6, 2007
Hello again! It's been a little while since my last post and I need to post for this week or I'll be docked points from Dr. Myers. I've been a little bit behind on things as I've been preparing for my upcoming senior seminar, but I did have time to check out at least one cool article I found on…
September 24, 2007
Hello again! It's amazing the things that are going on right under our noses (undergraduate noses that is). I was wondering why we can continue to form so many memories in a life time with no new cell growth after a specific age. If every memory is a new reconstruction of interacting neurons…
September 14, 2007
Hello again, it has not even been a day yet, but I feel that I should quick post something. Some of the comments from my previous blog have pointed out interesting ideas as to the correlation between protein folding and memory storage.
Proteins inside neurons would work well in storing and…
September 13, 2007
Hello! I'm a student of Dr. Myers here at the lovely University of Minnesota Morris and will be blogging weekly for the next few months about whatever I find or dream up that relates to Neurobiology.
This week I suppose the most interesting finding I have comes from 89.3 "The Current," an off-…