Mind
Hippocampal neurogenesis, depression, and stress
It’s always nice to see a paper on a subject I’m interested in appear in a high level journal. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing that steps in the field are being made...
Stories by Scicurious
Mind
Hippocampal neurogenesis, depression and stress
It’s always nice to see a paper on a subject I’m interested in appear in a high level journal. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, knowing that steps in the field are being made...
Mind
SciAm Chemistry Day! LSD: A drug only as good as its receptor(s).
Today is chemistry day at SciAm blogs!!! Fun times. And of course if Sci was going to participate, of course I MUST participate with NEUROchemistry!
The Sciences
Book Review: Wicked Bugs: The louse that conquered Napoleon's army and other diabolical insects
I got an email with this book's name in the title, and well, obviously. I had to get a copy. WHO WOULDN'T? It's BUGS! I waited eagerly for my copy in the mail.The cover was promising, nice and dark red with artistically done black bugs on it...
Mind
Drinking Coffee to Stave Off Alzheimer's. Show me the money.
Is it really as simple at that? I got a tweet from a reader yesterday pointing me to an article in the LA Times. The article was covering a study from the University of South Florida on whether caffeine, and more specifically, coffee, can stave off Alzheimer's disease...
Mind
Drinking Coffee to Stave Off Alzheimer's. Show Me the Money
Is it really as simple at that? I got a tweet from a reader yesterday pointing me to an article in the LA Times. The article was covering a study from the University of South Florida on whether caffeine, and more specifically, coffee, can stave off Alzheimer’s disease...
Mind
Ketamine and Major Depressive Disorder: Is It Better with Special K?
Most people have heard of ketamine. Originally invented in 1962 to be used as an anesthetic, it is still used for children and in some topical anesthetics, but mostly when you hear of ketamine used clinically now, it’s actually used in combination with xylazine as a veterinary anesthetic (side note: SciCat coming to after a [...]..
Mind
Ketamine and Major Depressive Disorder: Is it Better with Special K?
Most people have heard of ketamine. Originally invented in 1962 to be used as an anesthetic, it is still used for children and in some topical anesthetics, but mostly when you hear of ketamine used clinically now, it's actually used in combination with xylazine as a veterinary anesthetic (side note: SciCat coming to after a visit to the vet from a Ketamine/Xylazine combo is...hilarious...
Mind
Hello and Welcome to the Scicurious Brain!!
Hi Everyone! Scicurious here, and thrilled to be blogging with the fine folks you will see introduced over the next few days. I am a post-doc in neuroscience at a fancy R1 university, and I have a PhD in physiology from another fancy place...
