Something I can’t really wrap my head around the last couple of days is the gravity of what it means if “autism” related genes are experiencing a selective sweep right now. If you’re familiar with the current astronomical definition of a planet, a selective sweep is similar to the “clears it’s own orbit” requirement.
If “ADHD” is a product of “too many valence updates, for the rate of salience updates, while “OCD” would be not enough valence updates, for the rate of salience updates. Interesting. Too many valence updates effectively “blocks” salience from updating valence, or so many salience updates it blocks valence from updating the salience model. This …
The cerebellum is a really weird part of the brain in that it contains the majority of the particular type of cells that neuroscience has been focused on for the last 100 years… but is also the most ignored part of nervous systems as a whole. Even more than the brainstem, and the brainstem is …
I haven’t seen a tDCS device that was truly wearable, most of them are a separate clunky box with all the circuitry in them. Most of the time tDCS is used, people deploy it along the same modalities as EEG, including “montages” along the 10-20 locations. What if instead we miniaturized the entire thing down …
Thoughts regarding the following: Interesting additional thought about the cholesterol paper: It could explain why “schizophrenia” is late onset. Having “too much” generally isn’t a problem up until post puberty because everything is still in a state of rapid development, it’s not until development starts slowing (or degrading in the case of dementia) that “schizophrenia” …
Future medicine: from molecular pathways to the collective intelligence of the body – Intelligence from the spaces in between. (should note I’m conflicted about one of the authors on this one, great ideas but everything is through an “AI” lens which is interesting but not interesting) The Multiple Realizability of Sentience in Living Systems and …
One thing that occurs to me when discussing neuroscience generally is how disconnected most of the discussion is from the underlying mechanics of the system being discussed. In fact most neuroscience discussion tends to be *really* bad about the biology part of it, which is probably how it ended up ingesting so many terrible concepts …
Just had an interesting conversation around a post about the results of their genetic test, specifically whether a specific gene (COMT) implies a specific personality or general behavioral phenotype (“Warrior”). In the course of the conversation, it was implied that behavior is “significantly” driven by genes, that complex behavior is heritable, and that environmental effects …
Think of them as an additive and a subtractive set of systems. Hah, “consciousness runs through our veins” quite literally. Wonder how much active work is looking into rolling back immune cells to PSC equivalents? It’s just so weird that human cognitive performance curve over a lifetime looks so similar to immune response strength. It’s …
