Low-Carbohydrate and High-Protein Diet Suppresses Working Memory Function in Healthy Mice HEH. DCX expression disorders usually result in “Smooth Brain” conditions. Wonder if there’s an association between dementia and keto style diets. It seems like the MoA for a lot of “meathead” diets is suppression of dorsal function. This work is interesting because it illustrates …
Eukaryote cells are hybrids, they use both anaerobic and aerobic metabolic components. Aerobic processes allow for more raw energy, sustained over time. Underlying those processes are anaerobic processes, which are the basis nuclear<->cytoplasmic metabolic interactions. We need a way to accurately measure these processes outside of assumptions derived from BOLD style conceits. Got sidetracked thinking …
Currently, many of our cellular definitions are based almost entirely on their visual appearance. Why is a neuron a neuron? Because it looks like a neuron. This tautological understanding of nervous system cells (it’s a neuron or not a neuron) over the past 100 years has carried increasing amounts of weight (and disconnect from actual …
Don’t judge a cell by it’s morphology (and other questionable analogies). Read More »
Think of intercellular communication between cells in brains along the lines of how language itself works. Our “neurotransmitters” work very similarly to “language” as a whole, e.g. GABA being “English”, and Glu being “Spanish”, and Serotonin being “French” or whatever languages you prefer if you aren’t in North America. They provide the baseline structure and …
Moving beyond the definition of biological life, what universal properties exist between all conceptions of “life” (including xeno concepts)? For example, is self sustaining metabolism a universal property? If so, are stars “alive”? Are galaxies alive? If not, why, considering biological life is a subset of those physical interactions? We are biased toward the chain …
What are the properties universal to “life” as currently defined? Read More »
Assuming that ventral dominant brains allow for “filling in the gaps” of sensory information in a more efficient way, human brains were less metabolically intensive than extant species like Neanderthalensis. During adverse environmental conditions which presented challenges to achieving the necessary calories to support those big brains, Sapiens were able to shift more work to …
Did homo sapiens evolve ventral dominant brains out of metabolic necessity? Read More »
CA2 orchestrates hippocampal network dynamics – This is a good summary because it breaks out of the “social” box that most work focusing specifically on the CA2 region seem to be stuck in. Fluoxetine Enhances Synaptic Vesicle Trafficking and Energy Metabolism in the Hippocampus of Socially Isolated Rats – It’s weird to think of “happiness” …
Hippocampal CA2 Dump Part I forgot and am not motivated to look it up. Read More »
I’m not a huge fan of books. They tend to be overly narrative and sculpt information in a fashion which supports a conceit rather than explore context. Of course, this is probably what most people expect from books and this is just my square-pegness (I think autocorrect went into convulsions over that one) manifesting. Books …
The egocentric/allocentric conversion refers to the process that nervous systems use to convert our egocentric sensory information into allocentric constructs useful for making predictions about external behavior (aka, enabling coordinated social behavior). On a really high level, imagine a pack of wolves hunting. They only perceive the world from their own reference frame, but need …
