hkl @hkl@qoto.org

So I figured I would post an introduction as I just joined this server. I am an Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology and I study synaptic protein complexes and protein phosphatase signaling in the brain. I am really interested in how this signaling mediates neuroadaptations within the brain. Also as an underrepresented minority in science, I am passionate about enhancing diversity in all STEM fields. I am also a husband and a father of 2 younger kids who keep me grounded (and busy). I am still learning this whole mastodon universe but wanted something beyond what the bird/fowl site has become (I can also be found @ajbaucum@universeodon.com).

#neuroscience #BlackInNeuro #pharmacology #academia

Arpan R Mehta, Puja R Mehta, Stephen P Anderson, Barbara L H MacKinnon, Alastair Compston, Etymology and the neuron(e), Brain, Volume 143, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 374–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awz367 #etymology #science #openaccess #article #language

#arxivfeed :

"Human voltage-gated Na+ and K+ channel properties underlie sustained fast AP signaling"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.29.518317v1

#Neuroscience #Neuro #Brain #Neurophysiology #Biophysics #Neuron #NeuronModel #Simulation #ActionPotential

The neurons that restore walking after paralysis #neuroscience
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05385-7

Visual cortex stimulation after receiving a visual cortical prosthesis (brain implant for restoring vision): "Those beeps - they're driving me nuts!" https://books.google.nl/books?id=AYyK579ehcMC&pg=PT528&lpg=PT528&dq=%22Those%20beeps%20-%20they%27re%20driving%20me%20nuts!%22 Dennis lost his sight at age 18; #crossmodal #perception #neuroscience #NeuroTech #BCI

Big welcome to @anneurai!

Anne is an Assistant Professor in Leiden (Netherlands). Let's all celebrate her substantial contributions to understanding how we make decisions:
https://anneurai.net/

Anne is also been part of the heart and soul of an exciting team science experiment in brain research, the @InternationalBrainLab

Finally, let's applaud Anne's contributions to Green Neuroscience. She continuously offers us all action items for stopping climate change: https://anneurai.net/green-neuroscience/

I may not be an expert in many things, but brain stimulation I think I qualify as having an expert opinion on.

Fascinating new 🐭 study on the 🧠 from @MIT in @Nature. #Neuroscience #Plasticity

LINK: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05483-6

Long-range cortical synchronization supports abrupt visual learning
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.029
#neuroscience

Higher-order sensory #ThalamicNuclei are densely connected with multiple #cortical & #subcortical areas, but what do they do? During active sensing, the POm integrates information from the #cortex & plays a key role in #SensoryPerception #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XFqbhx

An examination of over 1 million funding proposals to the National Science Foundation from 1996 to 2019 reveals that white principal investigators are consistently funded at higher rates than most non-white PIs and relative funding rates for white PIs have been increasing. https://elifesciences.org/articles/83071?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic_features

Starry Ocean
(Perpetual Ocean visualization by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio)

This is an interesting finding: After animals learn a visual task, there are substantial changes in the premotor/prefrontal cortex.

So motor/frontal cortex changes as a result of sensory learning, and those changes are long-lasting. The motor/frontal areas now treat those visual images differently in multiple ways.
One potentially surprising thing is that it's motor/frontal cortex that shows these changes.

from @flickerfusion@twitter.com @MatteoCarandini

#neuroscience
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(22)01337-7

Academic writing tips

(linking to information posted MushtaqBilalPhD on bird app)
I don't know if this is going to work, but here is the unrolled thread:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1597513824470695936.html
Including tips from:

Parametric information about eye movements is sent to the ears https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.27.518089v1

So this... is what #VanGogh was #painting.. what an #acute #sight they had!
#Jupiter #space #photography

Scientists make #AI more intimidating by adding living neurons, while engineers make robot arms cuter and more versatile by mimicking elephant trunks. All that in my latest item for C&EN https://cen.acs.org/physical-chemistry/computational-chemistry/tiny-brain-video-gameselephant-trunk/100/i42

Cephalopods like octopuses, squids and cuttlefish are highly intelligent animals with complex nervous systems. In “Science Advances”, a team led by Nikolaus Rajewsky of the Max Delbrück Center has now shown that their evolution is linked to a dramatic expansion of their microRNA repertoire.
#Neuroscience #Brain #Evolution #miRNAs

https://neurosciencenews.com/octopus-mirna-complex-brain-21945/