Ask a PhD (neurobiology) student anything.

>>720968560
What's the topological Chern number for a 2D sample of graphene in the absence of an external magnetic field?

>>720968773
>What's the topological Chern number for a 2D sample of graphene in the absence of an external magnetic field

+/- 2

Does free will exist?

>>720969314
No

>not a neuroscience PhD student

Plz gib digital immortality

>>720968560

Doesn't really hold much weight without the name of the institution.

>>720968560
is it possible to feel a benzo-like calmness without taking any drugs?

Does alcohol kills brain cells ? Does it makes you stupid? If yes , Is reversible ?I'have been drinking hard for 3 years , i'm 19 . Sorry for my bad english .

>>720968560
ever heard of humberto maturana?

>>720969333
Cool we're on the same page, what do you make of the feeling as if we are "conscious authors" though? If it's an illusion, which it is, why is it present? Why do we feel like we choose our next thought?

>>720969642
Yeah and what kind of stuff you're working on. And what year you're in.

>>720969433
btw you should turn down the gain on the confocal

File: Untitled.png (10KB, 262x159px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 262x159px

>>720969433
Realize this is easily photoshoppable but yeah...

>>720969759
He can't answer why, only how. And the how isn't entirely clear yet.

>>720969759
That's what the process that yields your next thought feels like.

>>720969842
2-photon not confocal, that was in vivo

>>720969774
propagation of mHtt in Huntington's disease and its implications for other neurodegenerative disorders of the CNS

>>720969757
yes

>>720969946
Rhodamine?

>>720970075
what do you think about his view on life and relationships, language, etc?

>>720970143
Evan's blue (1%)

>>720969849
>>720970024
Great, this should be enough infos to dox the frog. C'est dommage. Au revoir.

>>720968560
how were taking the classes? did you just spend hours in the library memorizing the material? legit question cause i want to be an astrophysicist but I don't think id make it

>>720970215
Couldn't really care less

why am i always sad?

>>720970300
meh, if people want to be mean, they can

How can cousciousnes be physical? And if you believe its metaphyiscal, does that mean we can never have clones morally? I want a clone kate upton to fuck every day, but am moral fag and would give that up if the technology is so immoral.

>>720968560
Neuroradiologist checking in. I know almost zero about neurobiology though. Raking in the cash all the same.

>>720970444
XD

>>720970324
The classes are kind of a waste of time. Most of my program is research based, with little emphasis on class time. and of course all of the classwork, while interesting, doesn't really apply to my project or interest and just feels like somethign I have to do.

>>720969051

Incorrect. In the presence of time-reversal symmetry Chern numbers are guaranteed to vanish.

I've had suicidial thoughts but I know I will never take my life, but at the same time I feel incredibly depressed but can still have happiness. I exhibit basiclaly all the physical and mental symptoms, yet I can still seem even feel happy.

>>720970463
This is the most hilariously retarded thing I have read today.

>>720970653
I try :)

>>720970556
meh, I took a shot. you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

>>720970466
Did you do neurology residency then radiology fellowship or other way around? I really like neurology but I'm not good with math or physics at all so idk if I can do that

Are niggers lower than white people?

>>720970811
In what sense?

>>720970811
The ones I know seem to be taller

>>720970737
Radiology, then two year neuroradiology fellowship. Yo ucant go from neurology to neurorad. Have to do general diagnostic rad first.

neurobiologicaly speaking, does doing butt stuff make you gay?

File: tumblr_nxhh2kv15M1uk54kwo1_1280.jpg (167KB, 1000x730px) Image search: [Google]

167KB, 1000x730px

>>720968560
Are the brains of childhood abuse victims really 'stuck' as if they're reliving the moment.. all the time?

and if so, how can one become unstuck?

>>720970953
It's not gay until you kiss and make eye contact

why does lots of sleep make you tired, lazy and stupid as fuck during the day?

>>720970856
All the senses

Sight, sound, touch, taste and smell

>>720971002
can't, you're fucked

>>720971032
No, I mean like getting fucked in the ass by a woman with a strap on.

Neurologically speaking, am I retarded?

>>720971034
I read an interesting paper that I'm too lazy to look up now once. It was about how if you stay up all night before, you only need like 1 or 2 hours more to make up for the sleep you lost. kind of interesting.

>>720971170
I know what you meant

>>720971194
It seems likely

>>720970882
oh well, internal med is cool too i guess

>>720971257
So if I kiss her and make eye contact, I'm gay? Even thought I'm her husband?

>>720971392
Did you just assume her gender?

>>720969333
>Does free will exist?
>>No
youre "so intellectual" congrats.

now, what are the most likely possible/best ways to increase or maintain/improve neuro-plasticity

>>720971050
How can one be "lower" in sight? How do we measure how much sight someone has?

>>720970024
Used to work at a facility that specialized in Huntington's was pretty fun sad a ton of young people unable to control their bodies just waiting to die

>>720971457
No assumption. She's told me that she identifies as female.

>>720968560
What's your funding package like? And why are you willing to work like a slave for something that doesn't massively increase your earning potential?

>>720971359
Are you in med school? What year if so? Everything is cool as long as you enjoy what you do and dont have chip on shoulder about rads making more money for less work.

>>720968560
You don't know shit, why would I ask you anything?

>>720971568
It's really hard man. We take blood samples and there tend to be 3 groups of people: 1. the 50 year olds in wheel chairs who can't even dress themselves in the morning or remember anything, 2. the 20-30 year olds who are HD+ and see these people and think "fuck, that's going to be me in a few years", and in my opinion, the hardest 3. the 20-30 year olds who are too afraid to get tested and don't know if that's going to be them or not.

>>720971616
Not all about the money, the dream of a therapy or a disease with no treatment is what keeps me doing it.

>>720971662
I'm starting in the fall (to a DO school tho probably). Still have another MD interview pretty soon. Either way im pretty sure neurology isn't that compettive and EM is good for DOs right now if I wanted

>>720971780
No doubt it's tough...Seeing people having to sign their own DNR in your 20s puts things in perspective for the rest of us

File: 1482043566186.jpg (22KB, 300x225px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 300x225px

>>720971568
I'LL HUNTINGTONS YOU MOTHERFUCKER

>>720971568
there's deep brain stimulation for some of the motor symptoms, but yeah there's like no way to cure it

>>720971991
Fascinating, I'm almost done my Master's in comp sci and I debated doing a PhD, but I can't justify the years of poverty wages and post docs when I could get paid way more for doing way less in industry. What ever floats your boat tho

>>720972225
DBS is mostly effective in Parkinson's. HD hasn't shown reliable results. ASOs are our best bet right now.

>>720972061
good luck. Avoid DO if can bruh, but if that's all that's available go for it.

>>720968560
Are you in a relationship? If so do you find managing your relationship and research is difficult? Specifically in relation to the time commitment

>>720972330
I don't mind the "poverty," sure it's not enough to car (I live in a decently big city, don't need one or mind taking the bus), or to travel (not sure I want to these days anyway). What I do get paid is enough for an apartment without roommates, some weed before I go to sleep, and a beer or 12 with friends every weekend.

>>720972678
The capricious human female is a burden to scientific methodology and research. The human female must be terminated.

>>720972678
I'm not, but lots of the other students in my lab are. I have a first date with a girl (lawyer) tomorrow.

>>720972812
My research supervisor is a woman and I have a ton of respect for her and her ability. I disagree with you.

>>720973010
Emotions are weakness. The weak must be destroyed. Science shall not be impeded. Terminate, terminate.

>>720972591
I know it sucks. I got unlucky i think, but it's w/e

File: 12d.jpg (31KB, 567x561px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 567x561px

>>720973194
That is hands down one of the most autistic things I have ever read

>>720973328
>>720972591
Luck is nothing but unscientific woowoo voodoo religion. There is no reliable or credible evidence to support the existence of luck.

>>720968560
Is being transgender natural?

>>720973435
You have provided no proof for your claims, probably because they are bunk.

>>720973538
I mean, isn't everything a human does "natural" by the sense of the word?

>>720973507
I like blaming it on luck a lot more than admitting the mistakes i made :)

what development do you predict will come of current brain-computer interfaces?

Has anyone had success probing and deciphering impulses on the brain?

>>720973721
Are there some people who are born a certain way that makes them feel like they are the wrong gender?

>>720973623
Look who's talking.

File: image.jpg (1MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 3264x2448px

Why are you such a nigger?

>>720973934
What you are trying to ask is "What is the etiology of transsexualism?"

>>720974046
I think it's because of my big penis

>>720974113
I guess yeah

>>720970618
Anhedonia - get meds or change lifestyle not op

>>720973907
Definitely not my area of expertise but the idea of being able to download your thoughts and memories excites me. Being agnostic is not easy, and death scares me.

>>720968560
Why is a women's mind set on a tall man?But then you get women with short men why is that?

>>720968560
what do you eat on a day-to-day basis? do you cook your meals?

>>720974275
They associate a man's height with leadership. It's evolutionary. If you're short, find other ways to make up for it and impress someone. Spend every minute of your life trying to make that one person who's worth it feel special. You only get so many years. Might as well spend it falling in love and enjoying every emotion associated with it.

>>720974335
My lab is located in a hospital that luckily has decent cafeteria food discounted for employees. I eat most of my meals there, but breakfasts at weekend dinners at home. Breakfasts usually involve a bowl of cereal and some fruit. 3 of the people I work with just moved here from Italy to continue their studies, and they're teaching me how to be a better cook. Admittedly, I'm not the best, but I try to make things taste good. I bbq a mean steak though.

>>720973907
Sorry, but we're many, many years away from something like this. We don't even know exactly how neurons hook up so that we can walk or breath, which are controlled by relatively few neurons, let alone the entire cerebral cortex. look up central pattern generators. although there are probably some functional imaging studies that might show entire areas of the brain when someone thinks about something in particular

File: image.jpg (80KB, 425x405px) Image search: [Google]

80KB, 425x405px

>>720973010
I'm doing neurology with aspirations to major in it with a biomedical/public Heath degree.

I have a female neuroscientist teaching me to. Why even bother replying to that person.

Can you gimme some helpful advice bro? I would appreciate a lot

>>720974499
So why do they go for short guys too?

>>720974831
tons of fMRI data show activated areas based on thought. CPGs also don't really seem relevant here. They're more motor actions that are with us at birth and we do without thinking (i.e. suckling, breathing, etc).

Why don't you think free will exists? How would you define the concept of free will?

>>720974893
Advice on what?

>>720974910
They are either settling, or the short guy makes up for it in other ways?

>>720975035
Read Sam Harris or hit up any of his videos or podcasts on the subject man this is his jam

>>720975005
I guess my point was that if we can't even understand those, we can't really understand the brain on a more macroscopic level and understand things like consciousness. and not necessarily how they're hooked up but how they come together to make a circuit when they fire

>>720968560

>>720968560

i just posted this. i have five of his unreleased tracks.

https://youtu.be/4psFWzIy3vI

ever done LSD?

i did all my LSD in the late 90s. it all came from the same man, who is now in prison for two lifetimes here in Tucson, about 18 miles away from me. i did it about 100 times. look him up and while you're at it, find an LSD hookup; hopefully it will be real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard

i have an idea of meeting him and working on a movie about him.

>>720975121
I've done that before and I dont agree with him. Im no neuroscientist, but his arguments seem flawed because he doesnt define what he thinks free will is or what constitutes a persons actual mind.

>>720975179
Took acid once in high school while watching the Beijing olympics opening ceremonies. No plans to do it again. Wasn't a bad experience, was worth it either.

>>720975063
On being successful? I'm already getting higher marks than most and study a lot of different stuff. Basically, just general advice for the course if that's okay?

>>720974893
Depends on your goals

>>720975421
Once you get to graduate school, grades are good for scholarships/bursaries, which look great on a CV, but networking is most important. Take interest in people at conferences and talk to them about their work afterwords. Like any job, knowing people and being liked will likely get you further than grades.

>>720974893
>>720975063
>>720975535
She said nanotech is gonna be big. I like the idea of radiology but my dream is to be a neuroscientific communicator or consultant to government.

>>720975633
Don't want to highjack this thread with my shit but great advice

Do you think the idea of a telepathic internet is a possibility in the near future?

>>720976075
Not hijacking man, I said ask anything. Seems almost dead now anyways. Another piece of advice: publish, publish, publish. Write reviews, get your name on anything you can. That matters a lot too.

>>720968560
Why do my erections last for more than 4 hours?

>>720976146
Define near future

>>720976291
Present day - 2050

>>720976284
Your body is trying to tell you to go see a physician.

>>720976357
No

File: image.jpg (2MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x2448px

>>720976257
Heard this one verbatim from her too
Fair enough, did you just smash text books like pic related. Best assignment you did?

>>720976598
Shameless bump don't want thread to die. Ma proff est français aussi!

Buuuuuuuuuuuuump

>>720976598
Yes. Best assignment I ever did was actually in my environmental law elective during undergrad. The class was dumb, for the final project we were assigned groups like a month before the end of class. On the last day we basically had a mock court against the other team, and an actual judge friend of the prof came in to assign grades, but only the people who wanted to present had to. So I was the only one in my group who wanted to. The case we were assigned was to represent a college professor who developped lung cancer after working in a building that was later found to have asbestos and to sue the university. I tracked down the people defending the university when they met to work on the project at the library and suckered them into a settlement that was not fair at all. We had no evidence that the asbestos caused the cancer, but I was able to get 80% of the current estimated value of human life.

>>720977068
Damn dude that's gangster.
Neuro one for luck? Merci mec

So wait a minute,what 9f the short guy is good looking,and the tall guy is not that great looking,why do they still go for legs over looks?

>>720968560
Which neurotransmitter is used to propagate the sensation of touch to the brain.

>>720977789
Maybe it's hard wired? Even if I dedicated my entire life to understanding the female brain they would change their mind.

Source: crazy girlfriends and being a dude

>>720977989
Doesn't work like that man. Sensory system is based on a number of connections from neurons with receptors all the way to the CNS. These are modulated at a number of spaces by excitatory and inhibitory receptors such as GABA and glutamate. Lots of self regulation involved going both ways

>>720969849
I really want to do a Neuro PhD in Paris. Are you in France or Canada. In the us academia is a 60 hour a week commitment for the rest of your life. How is it where you are. My boss hasn't taken a vacation since before I was born.

>>720977506
I used an AAV virus directed to layer V of the cortex through stereotaxic injection into mice to transfer mutant huntingtin protein in rats and instill a cranial window through the skull to allow repititve live imaging through the rats life (see original pic)

>>720978436
Canada. 60 hour minimum. The only vacations or weekends my boss takes are when she goes to other countries to give talks.

>>720977999
So there Is no real answer then?

>>720978655
no singular answer.

I hear explosions in my head all the time and I feel them in my head at the same time, like something popped. I'm completely deaf with cochlear implants. What do you think is causing the explosions? It started 2 to 3 years ago if you were wondering.

>>720978847
can u describe the explosions? frequency? severity?

What are the datk areas in cells?

>>720979533
Frequency: 15-30 times per day.
Severity: not too severe, most of the time I just ignore them.

File: jewish science.png (40KB, 580x351px) Image search: [Google]

40KB, 580x351px

>>720976598
>tfw every name on that book is jewish

>>720978510
That's awesome ma prof injected mdma into rats brain to study the damage.
I did an assignment on designing an experiment to check whether aspirin can reduce neuro inflammation and help patients with depression.
I wanna do my "theory of science" presentation on your research anon so chop chop I am doing in 6 or so months. When will you actually be done though?

File: image.png (141KB, 439x290px) Image search: [Google]

141KB, 439x290px

>>720979835
I really hope you're kidding but if not just go look up the percentage of Nobel Prizes from Jews

>>720978847
um, you should see a doctor

>>720968560
1. how are essential tremors treated (ie which medications do you use)?

2. can some tremors be internal (hence not visible to the neurologist)?

>>720979787
What are the dark areas in cells

>>720980066
Is it ironic that Nobel is a Jewish name?

>>720978847
how long did it take for you to adapt to your cochlear implants (or have you had them for life)?

also do the pops occur more when you're tired?

>>720979889
antiketogenic drugs are being tested for antidpressive effects (because of their anti-inflammatory effects), as I'm sure you know. and they're working.

>>720980319
Had them my entire life.
They do occur more when I'm tired/late in the night.

File: image.png (266KB, 980x742px) Image search: [Google]

266KB, 980x742px

>>720980212
Not as ironic as me posting anti-Jew memes while I destroy your argument.
That line of reasoning would make sense if you didn't actually look at all of the stuff they do to get the prize.
You must think Barack is Muslim too

>>720980498
yes just as I suspected, it's a phenomenon that occurs when you're tired or close to sleep. I've had the pops too. I read about them once, I don't know why they occur. I only know that they're normal. I wish I knew more about them or why they happen.

if they're causing you pain, definitely ask an audiologist or neurologist.

File: 1485687888058.jpg (151KB, 481x481px) Image search: [Google]

151KB, 481x481px

How do you feel about endogenous opioid deficiency syndrome? Real or Nah?

Wondering because I use a full agonist every day and I feel normal. I don't like to be high. But life was miserable when sober. Depression and anxiety and SAD completely cured with a daily dose of opi's that' stable day to day. Suboxone, a partial agonist, worked somewhat, but never alleviated symptoms entirely. Besides the opi's I have a gf, decent job in IT, family, friends, and attend NA as well as hobbies and interests. What I'm trying to say is that I have a fulfilling and full life above and beyond being a degenerate drug user, and I'm fairly stable.

>>720978580
It's so fucked I really am interested in the subject but I probably won't go further in it because of this

>>720980888
But I sometimes get them when I'm wide awake.

>>720980496
I based it purely on blood tests for c - reactive protein and cytokines (IL 1&6).

I hadn't seen that no! Saw an interesting article that bilingualism allows people to recruit far less of their brain to problem solve thereby saving lots of mental energy.

Spacial and visual tests simultaneously. Monolingual had prefrontal light up and a couple other related areas and bilingual only had the regions of th brain needed to solve the problem. Thoughts?

What are the dark areas in cells

>>720981049
I wish I could help, friend. i have one ear implanted, and i get the pops sometimes when i'm tired or falling asleep.

http://www.nosleeplessnights.com/exploding-head-syndrome-harmless-but-disturbing

i wish i could tell you more, but i'm not a dr

I have a very limited understanding of how neurons function, but would like to know more. I have a specific question.

I know neurons receive neurotransmitters from neighboring neurons, which can lead to an action potential where they fire off neurotransmitters of their own. My question is: Do neurons fire neurotransmitters they received from other neurons or do they make their own? If they make their own, what do they do with the received neurotransmitters?

>>720982065
This thread is about to get pruned or maybe op left.
Found possible answer in my book.

>>720983162
Which book? What is the possible ansxwer?

File: image.jpg (2MB, 3264x2448px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3264x2448px

>>720983274
I'll keep searching as well

>>720983274
I don't know why my shits posting sideways but long story short if I had to describe what I think happens is that it just kinda pushes through the entire action potential

>>720968560
What's it like to be a PhD (neurobiology) student?