Posts Tagged ‘Neuroscience’
Circuit Neuroscience Recently, research into psychiatric disease has made great strides, but continued progress may require unpopular and ethically murky research. Joshua Gordon, the new director of the National Institutes of Mental Health writes in this month’s Nature Neuroscience: “At this unique and exciting time for psychiatry, novel therapies for individuals with mental illnesses seem just around […]
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Tags: Animal Rights, Anxiety, Ethics, neuro, Neuroscience, Primates, Psychiatry
It was a book that originally piqued my interest in neuroscience and in the ten years I’ve studied neuro, what I’ve learned from books has stuck with me longer than what I’ve learned in classes, lectures, conferences. Why do books stick with us? Perhaps well-written books are crafted for the structure of our minds—connecting newly […]
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Tags: Books, Neuroscience, psychology, Reading
COMT, Catechol-O-methyl transferase, is an enzyme that degrades catecholamines–such as dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine (or adrenaline and noradrenaline as they are called in the UK). It was first discovered in the ’50s by Nobel laureate and pirate Julius Axelrod. More recently, scientists discovered an evolutionarily recent nonsynonomous single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the protein-coding portion of […]
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Tags: Biology, cogsci, Genetics, neuro, Neuroscience, psychology, Science
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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Tags: Connectomics, Connectopathy, Development, Electron Microscopy, Neuroscience, Wiring
Most popular Neuroscience Blogs
I’m curious about what are the most popular blogs for neuroscience right now because I want to see what people are interested in, and learn how to write an interesting blog by example. But how exactly do you find the most popular blog? There are blog ranking lists, top results on google, and lists of expert […]
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Ben Kuebrich
Neuroamer 