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December 5, 2007
Over the past few days I have been running my trials for experiment that was oh so controversial last time I blogged about it. I have been placing two groups of six fish into two solutions containing 0.5% ethanol and 0.25% ethanol. I place them into the solutions for a few hours then compare…
November 27, 2007
While reading Jonathan Weiner's book - Time, Love, Memory, I ran across several topics that are quite controversial. I thought that the book did an excellent job of presenting the science of these subjects while remaining neutral. One such topic is the genetic component of homosexuality. Studies…
November 18, 2007
As other members of my class have posted before me, we are giving presentations on synesthesia. I will be presenting possible mechanisms of grapheme-color synesthesia. Grapheme-color syesthesia is where a person sees numbers or letters as specific colors. One possible mechanism is local…
November 6, 2007
While reading the book Time, Love, Memory I ran across the phrase, time-blind. It was used in the context of saying that without clock genes, genes that define our circadian rythm, we would be time-blind. Is this possible, are there people who have no concept of the passage of time?
October 29, 2007
While I would love to devote all of my time to neurobiology, I do have other classes that require my attention. In one of those classes I am writing a research paper on tuberculosis. While researching tuberculosis I began wondering if there were any strange cases where tuberculosis has…
October 10, 2007
In biochemistry this past week we have been learning about the immune system. This lead me to do a google scholar search on neurobiological diseases. This search turned up a large number of articles on Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's disease, which casused me to form the…
October 4, 2007
Sorry about that last post. I am still trying to figure out how to format this blog correctly. Here are links to the abstracts of the articles I used to design my experiment. Admittedly I played up the sophomoric college student part a bit. Apparently a bit too much. To answer a few concerns about…
October 4, 2007
There are those who have questioned the reason for getting fish drunk. I could stumble through the explanation and make the issue much more confusing than it has to be, or I could just post a few of research articles I used to design my experiment.
Gerlai, R., Lahav, M., Guo, S., Rosenthal, A. 2001…
October 3, 2007
While I am a college student and enjoy the occasional alcoholic beverage, I have never tried to get any other species drunk. Until now. As some of my classmates may have previously stated, we have to design and implement some sort of neurobiological experiment. I will be testing the alcohol…
October 3, 2007
Today in Neurobiology the topic of migraines and headaches was brought up. There was a question raised that wasn't able to be answered adequately, and that question was, "Why do we experience the sensation of pain inside our skulls during a headache despite the fact that there are no nerves there…
September 19, 2007
One of the requirements for PZ's neurobiology class is reading Carl Zimmer's book Soul Made Flesh. While reading this book, I am continually struck by how religion resists change in science. Why? Science and religion don't even address the same issues in a culture. Robert Boyle seemed to think they…
September 18, 2007
I am another one of PZ's students just introducing myself. I am a biology major. When I am finished with my undergraduate work I hope to attend medical or physician assistant school. I am in neurobiology because I love learning about how the body works. It is part of what attracts me to the…