Senior Editor @ Nature. Thinks neuroscience isn't exactly rocket science; it's more like brain surgery. Deleted Twitter here, but @noahWG if you dare...
11/25/09 - I've walked by this plaque many times over the last 3 years, but it was only after the city razed all the trees in this little gardened area near the A,C,E subway stop at Canal & 6th Ave that I actually read it. It says: "The enhancements to this site are in memory of the victims of September 11, 2001." FAIL
- Noah Gray
OK, here goes: Woman is depressed. So badly that she goes on sick leave from work. To help he situation, her doctor sez "Go out and have some fun." Woman goes out and has some fun, posts pics exhibiting fun to Facebook. Insurance company (apparently a big Fb stalker) sees pics and decides woman is having too much fun and can't possibly be depressed. Cuts off sick leave payments. The End.
- Noah Gray
Answer: no, of course they aren't, as the first comment explains very nicely. I hope she wins the case.
- Neil Saunders
Adult-Born Hippocampal Neurons Are More Numerous, Faster Maturing, and More Involved in Behavior in Rats than in Mice - http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi...
Hhmm. I am not new to such issues. "This novel study on a rare disease in a unique population does not currently have direct relevance to the prevention or treatment of CJD in the UK, but may eventually lead to research that does". Kind of (as usual) ties in with the team leader's spin off company, D-Gen. mAB price list http://www.d-gen.co.uk/Price_l...
- Graham Steel
The cool thing about the research was the connection between contracting kuru after eating the brains of a corpse and a genetic mutation that seemingly protects tribesmen from getting the prion disease. Could this be a population genetic response to an epidemic prion disease? If so, it may represent an extreme example of genetic selection over an extraordinarily short time frame. So in...
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- Noah Gray
Fair point, Gov. I had only briefly read the link that you posted (not seen) although I had seen another media report on the BBC. As a lay-person, I don't have access to the related pdf but due to my patient advocacy work (in this field), I do. I can haz legit password access to NeuroPrion database since 2007. I shall therefore refrain from commenting further as on this occassion, Prof Collinge has not played his D-Gen card. I shall study the pdf...
- Graham Steel
The "magic" behind psychogenic illness: Desiree Jennings and her flu shot-induced neurological damage "cured" by.......[wait for it]........psychology.
- Noah Gray
Icelandic personal genomics firm deCODE Genetics files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection - http://blogs.nature.com/news...
Obviously the impact factor and classical means of assessing scientific productivity are broken. Here is a well-written and thought-out assessment of the future of article level metrics and why that future is and should already here.
- Noah Gray
An extraordinary set of individual cases raising many issues, not least of which is the issue of responsibility for one's actions in the face of brain damage or malfunction. That has always been a favorite philosophical issue of mine...
- Noah Gray
Sunday night is also for dance parties...[Bebot - Black-eyed Peas]...& forget their stuff < 3-4 yrs old
- Noah Gray
from Blip.fm
On Becoming a Scientist -- E-in-C of Science, Bruce Alberts, advises on how to make good choices in one's career path - http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi...