Massaging Brains

I won't celebrate anyone's death, even if they are horrible people- and his won't be a celebration like the Wicked Witch of the West. No, because his monkeys esp Vance) and real-life great and powerful Oz (i.e. Thiel) are going to shake things up reaaaallly bad. That's the plan. Watch.

A good, eye-opening listen...
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Things I want to fight for as a scientist...
1. A better healthcare system
2. Acceptance of preventative and integrative care (wellness approach)
3. Better access to healthcare for all
4. Diminished stigmas around mental health
5. Patients to be HEARD
6. Encouragement of self-care from a young age

I study neuroscience but I'm fascinated with the whole body.

I just learned that, when you're born, your appendix is right under your navel but as the intestines grow, it shift to the lower right. When people have appendicitis, the brain remembers the original location so the pain is felt there!

Did anyone else ever feel guilty for turning their brain off after the graduated college?

I just received an honors B.S. in #neuroscience at #ucsd and I'm looking forward to my next chapter!

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This #InternationalDayOfYoga, take 10 minutes to reconnect with your breath and body.

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He's not owner but he's definitely invested in it. Along with someone else who we need to watch out for: Peter Thiel.
Stop using PayPal/Venmo.

He won't. He'll buy (take) their land. He literally wants to own the world. Not just Greenland.

This.

Absolutely.

Of course. But they didn't think that at the time!

Yup!

Only the big ones.

Right. But in the beginning, they had no clue.

This.

I don't think those who voted red are going to care, they will think it doesn't affect them.

Many are still unfortunately caught in the spell and they aren't seeing what we are seeing. They aren't getting the same news.

Apparently they don't have any idea how mental health and addiction work. It's like "it happened already, you should be fine by now. Get over it." 🤦🏼‍♀️

PSA that no matter what ridiculous, unscientific “research” comes out in the next year or two about vaccines, a plethora of rigorous, reproducible studies have demonstrated safety and efficacy of vaccines with ZERO link to autism. Autism is largely (if not entirely) genetic. Tell your friends.

I got my money out of banks a long time ago. CU all the way.

Exercise of any kind boosts brainpower at any age UniSA research shows that any form of exercise can significantly boost brain function and memory across children, adults, and older adults.

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Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...

A novel fMRI study in Science shows that babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories.

The findings suggest that infantile amnesia is more likely caused by memory retrieval failures rather than an inability to form memories in the first place. scim.ag/422LFb9

Gabbard used the word "materials", so she's not lying. She was choosing her words wisely. See? 🤦🏼‍♀️

It's actually the glue.

How does sleep protect against neurodegenerative disease? A review, open-access
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This Week in The Journal A Potassium Channel on Axons Reduces Ectopic Spikes Nooshin Abdollahi, Yu-Feng Xie, Stephanie Ratte, and Steven A. Prescott (see article e1889242025) Action potentials, or spikes, transmit informa...

This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | A Potassium Channel on Axons Reduces Ectopic Spikes; Identifying a Regulator of Oligodendrocyte Fate www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...

I think we should take Elon's 'x' back and apply it to those flagged research terms as such:
Fxmale
Prxgnant
Fxtus
Trxns
Gxndxr
Xessible
Incusivx
Divxrsity...
(And so on)

I mean if science already has its own language (mainly stemming from Latin), why not put a modern spin on it?

Apparent Diffusion Coefficient fMRI shines light on white matter resting-state connectivity compared to BOLD - Communications Biology de Riedmatten et al. propose apparent diffusion coefficient functional MRI as a novel contrast for assessing functional connectivity in both grey matter and white matter, addressing the limitations of...

📰 Out now in @commsbio.bsky.social! 🧠🧲🔍
Why should fMRI connectivity be limited to gray matter nodes?
Using ADC-fMRI, we can robustly include white matter nodes and explore white-to-gray and white-to-white connectivity.
Masterfully led by Inès de Riedmatten!
#FIREPATH
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