Prefrontalmedialcortex
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@Unspiralled do you have any articles to share regarding coronaviruses having slower mutation rates?
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Unspiralled
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No idea, and now it's unclear again whether we can talk about vaccine scienceWhat did I miss? Quite a few comments deleted from this morning.Please everyone be nice on here.
If I look like Jennifer Aniston when I'm a grandmother then I will be chuffed.I looked further into ‘grandmother cells’ and they are also known as ‘Jennifer Anniston neuron’
“A recent experiment showed that single neurons in people's brains react to the faces of specific people. Researchers see the findings as evidence that our brains use fewer cells to decode a given image than previously thought.”
Haha that's great!
And probably the only materials & methods section that I've enjoyed reading.
Prefrontalmedialcortex
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This is the first time I have seen this. I don’t know much around the field but found it very interesting that the solar storms were reflected in the annual tree growth rings. To determine a specific year is pretty amazing.You're very welcome
What are everyone's thoughts on the science that was in the news the other day about Vikings settling in North America years before Columbus got there? I love this interdisciplinary stuff and I find it slightly mind boggling that they've determined an exact year.
I think as technology and research evolves in the coming year, we will be learning a lot more about settlements.
I was reading this research about brain
size reduction occuring in the last 3,000 years due to us socialising more and the emergence of collective intelligence. I believe there are so many areas of our brain we do not use or activate due to advances in technology and life - we do not need to tap into these areas as much or use our brain to the capacity it can be used.
Frontiers | When and Why Did Human Brains Decrease in Size? A New Change-Point Analysis and Insights From Brain Evolution in Ants
Human brain size nearly quadrupled in the six million years since Homo last shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but human brains are thought to have d...
www.frontiersin.org
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Prefrontalmedialcortex
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Hope you’ll be back posting some interesting articles when you can.
It was a great experience working with these researchers. Lots of exciting research happening and some in the pipeline too.
Prefrontalmedialcortex
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This is really good to see that this is being studied and could possibly be applied to Alzheimers research. The cognitive neuroscientist who is leading the study is someone I have cited in research for my MSc and have worked with some of his colleagues in the field. Brilliant minds!
Hey @Scorpihoe thanks for sharing this article. What an amazing form of therapy - to reverse paralysis. This part really stood out to me -Hey guys!
I follow this girl on Instagram, she was paralysed from the waist down in a car accident and she shared a news article recently about scientific research showing an injection that can reverse paralysis. It’s incredibly interesting as the brain and spinal cord have very limited regenerative capacity. I’ll share the article with you guys where it shows it on mice!
“Other effects of the treatment include scar tissue being reduced and myelin, the insulation that surrounds axons, being reformed.”
The myelin is something that is damaged in MS - so it made me think whether such therapy would be beneficial to MS sufferers as it reports the myelin being reformed.
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