It’s almost certainly accurate to say that all “thought” has the same active “physical” component (salience) as expressed movement does. A big miss we’ve had with regard to the cerebellum prior to the last decade has been the idea that “movement” is a product of separate systems than “thought”. It’s becoming pretty clear that “movement” …
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Ponto-olivary climbing fibers are the substrate upon which all personal experience is built. The neonatal period in humans is largely driven by the linking of these fibers to purkinje cells, which form the basis of conscious experience (predictive processing). The critical period in humans is largely driven by the pruning of connections between these fibers …
I’ve been meaning to make a blurb about this for awhile, but it keeps slipping my mind. This means this may be a bit rougher than I intend because I haven’t really thought about how to translate it yet and will probably need to come back and edit quite a bit for errors until I …
One of the weirdest bits of cognitive dissonance I’ve had in my life is when searching for an object that was easily within my field of view, but it was literally invisible to me. Whether my keys, the remote, or whatever, the more familiar I was with the object, the more completely it seems to …
The Cerebellum and Cognitive Function: Anatomical Evidence from a Transdiagnostic Sample The more I sit on this paper, the more stunning it is. Like it changes SO damn much. Like from a network perspective, dopamine works as a cerebellar coordinating signal. The entire purpose of dopamine signalling pathways is to transmit information to the cerebellum …
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” …
