Category: Neuroscience
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Hominin Evolution
This may be a touchy subject, but I’m in the process of reviewing this material for a midterm later on this month. I need to ace this class. Let’s get on with it!
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Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology
Once you start college-level biology, you’ll never stop hearing about evolution and its many tentacles on the subject. But this is the only tentacle that has human history written with an ape’s head in its armpit, the facet of evolution that offers the most controversy. For some, it’s religiously based (understandable) and for others, it’s a…
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This Semester: Planning for Fall 2017
I am taking 5 courses this Fall semester: AFR202: Autobiographies of African Americans, SOC202: Human Rights in the Modern World, MUS220: Jazz Theory, MATH115Z: Calculus with Biological Applications, and PSYCH214: Human Psychology. Count ’em, 5! Although this is a lot more humanities based than my last 2 semesters, it’s still going to be a handful…
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THE RETURN OF HOMOUNCULUS: The Somatopically Organized Motor Cortex
The Motor Cortex in the brain is somatotopically organized. This means that your brain has arranged the functions of your voluntary muscle as if it was a Homunculus lying down all snuggled up in your cranium. Pretty cool right?
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The Nernst and Goldman Equations
In any science class, math is used to describe phenomena quantitatively. In neuroscience, we use math to describe the conductance of ions and the permeability of the neuronal membrane to ions.
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NEUR100: Neurons are specialized cells
Only so long ago, (ie January) I started my Neuro100 class with the wonderful Professor Wasserman as our guide. If there’s anything I’ve learn in these three months, it’s that everything we want to know and ever have known was because someone asked a question. In a lot of my future science blogs, many of…
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Brain Facts #1: Foundations of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
The Brain is an organ. It is a machine. It can be medicated and controlled. Now, on a lighter note, the brain is the most complex and sophisticated organ in the world. Even in fruit fly brains, there are so many pathways and connections that we still don’t know about!
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Compare and Constrast: Improving 1st Year Science Paper
In this blog post I will go over the typical format of a first year scientific paper. This sort of paper includes only a short introduction, a figure, and a results ‘paragraph’. A ‘paragrapgh’ can be anything from a couple of sentences to a page and a half long and drescibes the methods of your…
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