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Is it possible that our metabolic processes are multiple tiered, with oxygen dependent processes being only the most recent/top level process? What mechanism in the selective process would allow us to completely abandon the nitrogen breathing/dependent process? Do brains work by balancing different metabolic processes against each other? Perhaps not nitrogen fixing, but a balanced…

What’s in a name? Defining neurons as the primary nervous system cell type before we had any idea how they function has derailed nearly a century of study. Transcriptonomic analysis demonstrates that neurons come from the same glial progenitor cells as all other nervous system cells. Functional analysis demonstrates that neurons are placed and shaped…

Astrocytes regulate locomotion by orchestrating neuronal rhythmicity in the spinal network via potassium clearance

What if electrical activity in the brain is a coincident indicator of brain function, rather than a primary indicator? One of the huge problems I have thinking about the nervous system in terms of an electrical system is that it’s dogshit slow. Like way slower than you’d expect in a similar system built under the…

No matter how uncomfortable they make us or society itself. These things are just as instructive to society as they are to the individual, and shape social behavior in the same way they shape individual behavior. We’ve engaged in a massive campaign of suppressing the uncomfortable in society and this suppression has allowed us to…

Looks like incongruous astrocytic calcium signalling might be the etiology for most types of epileptiform activity. Will edit in place The Effects of Optogenetic Activation of Astrocytes on Spike-and-Wave Discharges in Genetic Absence Epileptic Rats – Gives hope that we might be able to avoid surgery and possibly medications for controlling. Contributions of Astrocyte and…

The emergence of the calvarial hematopoietic niche in health and disease – Wondering if efficacy of stimulation is modified by these structures? Organization of the ventricular zone of the cerebellum – Yep. Dopamine – Does this belong here? I don’t know. Dopamine is the signal chemical for salience circuitry. Do we have five discrete signaling…