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https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-parkinsons-disease/jpd225047 Maybe not TCE by itself, but the whole class of pervasive industrial chemicals are definitely setting us up for a bomb (which we are probably in the midst of experiencing right now, just largely undiagnosed).

The valence systems are much much much more sensitive to external training, are some people untrained to use their valence systems? We can create model behavior, but what happens when stimuli exceeds the model, how do individuals react? Are we experiencing an increasing failure to address out of bounds events during the developmental process due…

We do not experience the world, only our reaction to it. Examples: Nervous systems do not store “ball” or “sound”, they encode the physiological responses to those stimuli which are constructed into objects via downstream processing. This bridges the “stimuli == memory == behavior” conceit. How do sensory illusions work? Oh wow, the thing where…

(shit, should have typed “nervous systems”) (also have to stop reverse Betteridging stuff, it’s a dumb habit) Imaging the electrical activity of organelles in living cells Lysosomes as dynamic regulators of cell and organismal homeostasis A lysosome-centered view of nutrient homeostasis – Some interesting arguments despite the age. The direct piezoelectric effect in the globular…

(WIP) Life does not happen without stimuli. It becomes alive only through the constant metabolism/catalysis with “the world” external to the cell (or whatever we define as the minimum quanta of life for the virus/RNA/RNP fans). The action of this metabolic/catalytic process, which serves as the foundation of our definition of biological life, is the…

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2023/03/06/JNEUROSCI.1982-22.2023.long I’m metaphorically screaming right now. This is the piece of confirmatory evidence I’ve been waiting for since I saw this. Something I really love about this particular work is it demonstrates a homeostasis point, “too much” is as important a mechanic as “too little”. Only doing a knockout isn’t enough to really understand the…

Sorry another stub for now. Sparked by this study Association between mitochondria-related genes and cognitive performance in the PsyCourse Study (which is a bad study with the right idea), we should be able to measure all components of cognitive ability via metabolic interactions, including things like g. As information processing in general is the product…

Aquaporin water channels affect the response of conventional anticancer therapies of 3D grown breast cancer cells Aquaporins in Nervous System Cerebral Microcirculation, Perivascular Unit, and Glymphatic System: Role of Aquaporin-4 as the Gatekeeper for Water Homeostasis Human Aquaporins: Functional Diversity and Potential Roles in Infectious and Non-infectious Diseases Cellular Distribution of Brain Aquaporins and Their…

https://safjan.com/pros-and-cons-of-reliance-on-ai-generating-models/#pros-and-cons-of-reliance-on-ai-generating-models I think the “AI” tie in is dumb, but the underlying question, whether or not our cognitive skills are trainable and evolving vs. the fixed physiologically encoded things that cogsci assumes is a really interesting question. Are we as a species self selecting individuals with an entirely new class of information processing capabilities that…