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Synapse Vol 1, issue 4 now online
5 years ago
Synapse Vol 1, issue 4 is now online and is hosted at the Neurotopia 2.0.
An excellent article, that made it to this edition of synapse, is a post from A Blog Around the Clock, titled Compared to your pet iguana, you are practically blind , It focuses on the photo pigments present in different mammals and vertebrates. Those who found one of my previous posts (and outgoing links from it) titled 4 cone vision related to different pigments in humans and birds, would definitely find this post useful.
Another excellent article, from Pure Pedantry, discusses the new theory of how AKT signalling (and Parkin ubiquitin) mediated prognosis may explain the typical neuronal loss in Substantia Nigra area found in Parkinsonian patients.
The Neurocritic joins hands with me in criticizing the anti-psychiatry psuedosceince of PLoS. Regular readers would recall that I have crirtcised the same study cited earlier on this blog.
Apart from two of the posts from this blog, other interesting posts featured in the carnival include an update on the latest brain-machine interfaces in the form of MEAs from the Neurophilosopher; and reports on how Iraqi combat situation affected the soldiers posted there from the Mind Hacks.
Have a happy reading.
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Encephalon #3 is online now!
5 years ago
Thinking Meat has just published a brand new edition of Encephalon, the Encephalon #3.
One of the postings, from the neurophilosopher, is a review of Eric Kandel’s book-cum-autobiography. In the review , the neurophilosopher draws an analogy with Steven Rose’s book Making Memory. I have that book by Rose and had started reading it sometime back, so can appreciate how deftly some people can mix personal memory with the supposedly-dry-academic memory research. If I manage to read Rose’s book sometime soon, expect a review here.
Neurotopia has an article on ALS. I was introduced to ALS as part of reading “Tuesdays with Morrie“. It is interesting to note that microglia play an important part on prognosis and the study helps differentiate between onset and progression.
Talking of diseases, Neurocritic has a post in which about spindle neurons, which seem to be implicated to greater degree in Alzhiemer’s and to a slightly lesser degree in Autism. What is interesting is that they are mostly found in ACC (anterior cingulate cortex) and are exclusive to humans. Thus focus on them, Neurocrtic suggests may be of much better use, then on Mirror Neurons. There are some posts about mirror neurons too as part of the carnival.
There is a post by Developing Intelligence, regarding noise and information theory, which seemed to go over my head in first go. Will have to read the original articles more keenly to make more sense.
Finally, there are other posts like Binaulral beats or how robots can get a Theory of Mind or atleast a ‘shared world’.
And of course, there are articles from this blog – mostly on Color vision.
More cool stuff there. Have a nice read.
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Synapse #3 is up at the Nurophilosopher
5 years ago
The third edition of Synapse is up at the Neurophilosopher. It contains a witty article on mosquito songs, some other on Hypnosis and wakeful-yogic states , and some others on topics like the Mozart effect and neuron-Gila synapses. 2 posts from this blog, the mouse trap, are also included. Go ahead and have a good read.
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Encephalon second edition has been published
5 years ago
Pure Pedantry had published the Encephalon 2nd edition last Monday. The link to the second edition is here and I have been fortunate enough to be featured in that carnival. Couldn’t post the link earlier as blogspot was blocked by Indian ISP for the major part of the week. I will be hosting an Encephalon edition sometime in December. Check out this blog later for details.
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