Author: foompy_katt

Just… wows all around. I figured there had to be clusters like this, even if it was only as ubiquitous as something like Tay-Sachs. Also, significant protein gunks start building up in the 20’s, and this is probably consistent for most people albeit at a much slower rate. This suggests that once “maturity” kicks in,…

A systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis of the prenatal and early life stress effects on rodent microglia, astrocyte, and oligodendrocyte density and morphology – I absolutely loathe work like this even if it produces interesting results. It’s frustrating that we are still at the point where it’s either intentional torture or unintentional/lower intensity torture (control…

Eh, that title is a bit of a trainwreck. Perception of external events in an organism is driven by chemical messaging between cells. This is consistent from bacterial auto-induction to human vision perception. There is no evidence of any cellular organism (to my awareness) that functions without chemical messaging (this probably deserves a whole other…

Haha, I wrote the rant but accidentally deleted it. Time to check my s100b plasma levels. Hopefully I can recreate the gist. This is sparked by Single substitution in H3.3G34 alters DNMT3A recruitment to cause progressive neurodegeneration One of the most frustrating things for me exploring this field is how many conceits are deployed by…

Octopamine metabolically reprograms astrocytes to confer neuroprotection against α-synuclein – Ants have fascinated me for awhile because they appear to be “super organisms”, or a discrete organism comprised of individual organisms with external signalling capacity. We could probably make this argument for most “species” level conceits including humans, but ants are neat because they still…

I often go on rants about how terrible clinical diagnosis is, and worse that we create descriptions of conditions based on clinical diagnosis. The jist of those rants is that clinical diagnosis, no matter how many structured surveys we create, are ultimately subjective and that subjectivity obviates any chance at reliability. In the first article…

This Animal’s Behavior Is Mechanically Programmed – This conceit underlies the current version of the model, that all interactions in cells are essentially mechanical, and complexification of those interactions scale up to organisms like humans or blue whales. This article is particularly interesting because I hadn’t actually come across a multicellular organism without some type…

Uncertainty aversion predicts the neural expansion of semantic representations – Pretty sure that if were able to look at this on the circuit level, it would reveal dorsal vs. ventral patterning for uncertainty aversion, but not as a matter of “uncertainty”, but as an artifact of how these two global phenotypes construct and process information.…

Due to the mechanical nature of metabolic processes in cells, specific processes should generate discrete types of “sound”/vibrations. We should be able to use “sound” based tools in almost exactly the same way we use electrophysiological tools, except they should have far greater process sensitivity and be able to record against the entire range of…