Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are – Sebastian Seung’s new book

08Jun12

The connectome  is a map of all neural connections in a brain, which I believe only currently exists for the flatworm C. Elegans. Seung’s group and collaborators are working using serial electron microscopy, and partially automated EM analysis and the crowdsourcing site eyewire  to reconstruct parts of the mouse retina, with the hope of steadily improving technologies […]


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We know a lot about drugs – new data shows long-term epigenetic changes

28Oct11

There is a belief in the drug community that the war on drugs prevents good research from being done on drug use. While I agree there is a scarcity of research on the potential uses of many abused drugs or how they alter states of consciousness we really do know an amazing amount about what […]


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Single Exposure of Bisphenol A (BPA) Affects Newborn Mouse Brain — Longterm Increases in Hyperactivity and Cognitive Effects

27Oct11

Viberg of the Eriksson lab in Sweden shows in a new paper in Toxicology (full text) that a single exposure to BPA on postnatal day 10 has dose-dependent effects. (Mice sexually mature around p45.) The paper is still in press, so details are sparse, but authors saw changes in spontaneous behavior when exposed to a […]


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