Author: foompy_katt
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Is the etiology of most degenerative/dementia related conditions a family of calcium binding issues?
Edit: What’s the difference between drunk and demented on small timescales? I’m wondering what the range of calcium channel performance looks like across a population. What do the phenotypes for Ca2++ and Ca2– look like? Mitochondrial sodium/calcium exchanger NCLX regulates glycolysis in astrocytes, impacting on cognitive performance
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Interactive Fantasy
One of the goals of this project is to get a better understanding of how behavior works from a pure physiological perspective, such that we have the ability to optimize social inputs for an individuals particular preferences (or “strengths and weaknesses”). This is also meant to provide a consistent basis to the testing like competitive…
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Remodeled Education
The second most privately asked question I get asked is what is all this for? What’s the purpose? And most people are surprised/skeptical that my response is something on the order of “I’m not really interested in this topic, but it needs to be done”. Being a bit more concise, this field caught my was…
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Activation does not equal action
This assumption is a primary conceit of most neuro research. The evidence to support it is weak at best, contradictory at worst. Increased firing without an attached metabolic effect, that is without a specific peptide/protein/chemical reaction, is spinning a wheel. It’s a pulse with no message. We have a significant body of evidence that demonstrates…
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Moving forward using all my breath
It’s funny how fast things can go from “I’m so understimulated I feel like I’m turning into a tree” to “Oh god oh god oh god”. Despite the stress, I’m grateful for times like these because they force critical examination of priorities and resource allocation, and usually provide a path to a more clear/pure set…
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On a Tangent – We are going to hit a critical bottleneck in medicine and research if we don’t get high resolution focused ultrasound propagated quickly
We are already starting to hit critical points with regard to helium supply, however we’ll soon be hitting critical points with regard to supply of other materials used in other computer aided imaging techniques. Without significant innovation, we’ve likely hit the field cap for widespread MRI at 7T, which still isn’t good enough. Eventually even…
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Formation of Neural Circuits in an Expanded Version of Darwin’s Theory: Effects of DNAs in Extra Dimensions and within the Earth’s Core on Neural Networks
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31850135/ Aim: In this paper, inspiring Darwin’s theory, we propose a model which connects evolutions of neural circuits with evolutions of cosmos. In this model, in the beginning, there are some closed strings which decay into two groups of open strings. Methods: First group couple to our universe from one side and produce matters like…
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The hippocampus/deep cerebellar nuclei are Plato’s Cave
For those not born in the cave or who manage to escape, the terrifying monsters that inhabit the world are far worse than the safety of shadows.
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Gestalt Language Processing = Dorsal dominant language processing.
Also called “Visual/Spatial” learners. Dorsal dominant learning is a requirement for hyperlexia. Dorsal dominant individuals usually have more acute sensory response, and are also “empathic”, in that they are able to read and predict external thought not by making an internal reference, but by focusing on transmitted behavioral information more acutely. Dorsal dominant thought is…