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@Neuro_Skeptic

Neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry through a skeptical lens. Just a brain with some eyes. Formerly blogged for @DiscoverMag.

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SARS-CoV-2 makes a protein that 'directly activates sensory neurons to trigger pain' biorxiv.org/content/10.110โ€ฆ Makes sense. Worst sore throat I ever had.

SARS-CoV-2 makes a protein that 'directly activates sensory neurons to trigger pain' biorxiv.org/content/10.110โ€ฆ Makes sense. Worst sore throat I ever had.
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It's been well over a year, but I still haven't fully processed that I am co-author of a theory paper suggesting that 'psychedelics are analogous to cognitive laxatives.'

And this happened in part via a question I asked during a journal club!

academic.oup.com/brain/advance-โ€ฆ

It's been well over a year, but I still haven't fully processed that I am co-author of a theory paper suggesting that 'psychedelics are analogous to cognitive laxatives.' And this happened in part via a question I asked during a journal club! academic.oup.com/brain/advance-โ€ฆ
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Why does the brain have so many different neurotransmitters? Given that each neuron only releases one or two, why do we need so many? What do dopamine and serotonin add that glutamate and GABA can't do?

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Imagine if someone went to the busiest street in the world and started shouting at everyone about whatever was on their mind.

That's Twitter. We're all digital street ranters.

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New theory of how music evolved: being good at keeping a vocal rhythm is a signal of apes being good at swinging from branch to branch pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38180286/ 'Arboreal locomotion is highly correlated with several metrics of music-like signaling.' hmm

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Surge in number of โ€˜extremely productiveโ€™ authors concerns scientists nature.com/articles/d4158โ€ฆ We must assign someone to look into this problem and write 100 papers about it

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What if every neuron is actively controlling its environment? biorxiv.org/content/10.110โ€ฆ 'Neurons, especially those beyond early sensory areas, act as controllers, steering their environment towards a specific desired state through their output.' Interesting preprint!

What if every neuron is actively controlling its environment? biorxiv.org/content/10.110โ€ฆ 'Neurons, especially those beyond early sensory areas, act as controllers, steering their environment towards a specific desired state through their output.' Interesting preprint!
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Does anyone actually know what dopamine smells or tastes like?

How about other neurotransmitters?

The only one I've tasted is delicious glutamate (MSG).

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