Sitemap - 2010 - Neurobiology Notes

Hindsight Is 2010

Lehrer On Plasicity Vs Specialization

Uses of noise in neuron-neuron communications

Douglas Adams On Robustness Vs Fragility

Aging And Happiness

Are synaptomes impossible?

Measuring causalilty in neural connections

Why Nature Didn't Choose Arsenic

Trade Off #16: Impulse vs Incentives

Bill Simmons On Uniqueness

Our Regrets Change Over Time

P-Value Polemics

Trade Off #15: Acquiring Info vs Altering Subject

How do proteins bind to nucleotide sequences?

We're All Individuals Now

Trust The Ratings Of Others

Making Me Guess

Trade Off #14: Precision vs Simplicity

Network motifs in the Drosophila connectome

Being Skeptical Of Your Skepticism

Zuckerberg On Reward And Interest

Trade Off #13: Robustness vs Fragility

Trade Off #12: Protection vs Freedom

Your Relationship With Your Former Self

Trade Off #11: False Alarm vs Oversight

Strategic Swearing

Three Surprising Findings On "Genius"

Trade Off #10: Plasticity vs Specialization

Nanoparticles and brain imaging

Never Have I Ever

Trade Off #9: Some Now vs More Later

Towards a Drosophila connectome

Trade Off #8: Random vs Determined

Long Run Optimism Depends On Short Run Pessimism

Intellectual Hipsters

A Critique Of The 10,000 Hour Rule

Three End Of Summer Thoughts

The Arguments For And Against Re-Rating Movies

Our Hands Evolved Because Our Feet Evolved

Guilt Tripping For Love

Mark Cuban's Non-Probabilistic Thinking

Sequence Continuation

Trade Off #7: Proximity vs Scale

Randomization In Politically Sensitive Topics

Is Love On A Spectrum?

Trade Off #6: Training vs Battling

Spectrums Everywhere

Two Tools For The Citizen Scientist

Binding potential variability connects to psychological variability

Is Chris Nolan The Best Director Of All Time?

Trade Off #5: Loyalty vs Universality

Trade Off #4: Sure Bet vs Shot In The Dark

Trade Off #3: Switching Costs vs Change Gains

Trade Off #2: Offense vs. Defense

Trade Off #1: Efficiency vs Predictability

Emulating Boyden

Heyman On Alcoholics Anonymous

Lessons From FIFA's Ineptitude

Two Forms Of Self Deception

Is Toy Story 3 The Best Movie Of All Time?

Validating neuronal classifications with structural data

Variability between synaptic buttons as modulated by structural differences

Watching The Top 250

Niche Finding

Trade Offs Between Status And Interestingness

Four Distinct Claims In The Web Attention Debate

Registration of transmission electron images via minimizing landmark correspondence displacement

Using fMRI to predict word representation in the brain

The Neuroplasticity Of Doing Absolutely Nothing

The Mathematical Improbability Of Being The Best

Question #18: Modeling differential equations in neurochemistry

Dopamine receptor binding potential in the thalamus and creativity

Striatal D2-like receptor binding and impulsivity

In Defense Of Searching

Solemn Higher Ed Vows

Failure And Creativity In Lost

Where Are Other Cross Subsidies?

Two Ringing Bullshit Meters

Alcohol And Vocab Aptitude

Late phase synaptic plasticity tagged by increase in puncta sites

Two Irony Models

Question #17: Biological and physical basis of fMRI

Nuclear morphology of medium spiny neurons in the striatum

Synaptic activity dependent survival via neurotrophins and training in newborn hippocampal neurons

Gene expression in astrocytes, neurons, and oligodendrocytes

Any Rating System Trumps None

RNA interference to reduce expression of neuropilin-2 receptors

Question #16: Three applications of the local field potential

Question #15: The neurogenetics of interspecies brain size variance

Question #14: Three lesion studies on orbitalfrontal cortex function

Imaging the postsynaptic density microdomain postmortem

The Happiness Vs Boredom / Depression Vs Mania Continua

Question #13: Two applications of transgenic animals and knock-out mice

Characterizing the protein composition of the postsynaptic density

Isolating pure postsynaptic densities in vitro

Synaptic pruning in the mediodorsal thalamus

You Tube Rating Gets Even Worse

Cooperative synapses mediated by competition at dendritic branch

Short / Long Term Effects Of Better Competition

Effects of protein inhibition on young and mature synaptic vesicle function

Reward And Interest

Insulin sensitivity, antioxidants, and memory function in aging

Why Science Writing Is Painful

Horseradish peroxidase as marker for anatomical em

Active zones and postsynaptic clusters at the neuromuscular junction

Presynaptic guidance cue receptor localization

Problems with serial section em image reconstruction

AMPA receptor diffusion trap following LTP induction

Tiam1 and the neurite elongation equilibrium

Save The Social Animals

Violent Video Games And Youth Violence

Depression Hypothesis Responses

Book Notes Investigative Pathways

The "Old Shit Was Better" Effect In Action

Rating Interceptions Probabilistically

The Dark Side Of Altruism

Ironic Process In Hurt Locker

Preferring Process Is Tough

Of Course Aging Research

Game Theory In School Group Work

Self Deception Is Vague

Rapid synaptogenesis following long term potentiation in adult hippocampus

Testing Short Run / Long Run Coolness

Visualizing astroglia near hippocampal synapses

Subsdize Earnestness

What Does Honesty Require?

Blog Slow Homie

Eleven CMRHMOI Thoughts

Sebastian Seung on connectomics

Cognitive Dissonance And Time Perception In Harry Potter

Why College Goes By Fast

Arguing to Authority

Combining x-ray tomography with serial section transmission electron microscopy

The Inevitability of Modernity

In vitro neuroscience competition to test input-output models?

It Doesn't Have to Be This Way

Friend or Algorithm?

Mark McGwire and the Self Serving Bias

Question #12: Two types of central pattern generators

The Internet Echo Chamber?

Status Nihilism

Question #11: Where does the plasticity of the vestibular ocular reflex occur?

Deterrent Effects of the Death Penalty in Texas?

Question #10: Three findings from the crustacean stomatogastric nervous system

Correlations Between Neurogenesis and Behavior

Slaying the Black Horseman

Brain Uploading in Avatar

Time Transparency in Blogging, 2009

Behavioral fMRI Has No Clothes?