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How's neurology doing?

>> No.9715387

What a shitty thread. I pity you.

>> No.9716391

Fine, I'll elaborate. What are some recent advancements? what are some problems yet to be solved? how is the field as a whole? is it popular? does it need more people? for any major recent discoveries, what possibilities does it pose for appliance? etc.

>> No.9716398

>>9716391
ill entertain you.
I work with neurons. Recent advances would be categorizing how vesicular trafficking works, especially dentritic vs axonal. tons of problems to solve, yes we always need people. It's not super popular overall, not moreso than other aspects of molecular biology.

unless you like cell culturing, transfecting cells, imaging cells, growing cells, basic wet lab biology work, we dont want you. no you will not learning how to read minds or any other romantic notion of what neurology is. It's just basic molecular biology but applied to neurons

>> No.9716423

>>9716398

How are we in terms of the more "macro" parts of neurology? How is our understanding of how the brain achieves memory, logic, etc.

>> No.9716514

>>9716423
no idea, not my field.

>> No.9716540

Im in a brain-machine interface nanotech lab. Pretty neat.

>> No.9716556

>>9716540
rats?

>> No.9716647

>>9716556
yeah. And mice.

>> No.9716654

>>9716540
>being this delusional

>> No.9716695

>>9716647
can you go into more detail about what your lab is trying to do?

>> No.9716739

>>9716654
???
>>9716695
Basically we are working on developing electrodes that are more efficient at reading neuronal voltages. We're trying to get them to single-neuron resolution. But there's also experiments with the interfaces in which animals have to learn to fire neurons to activate mechanisms and such.

>> No.9716746

>>9716739
very cool, thanks for sharing. I have no doubt single neuron resolution will be attainable, must be a lot of background noise though.
which neurons are you trying to get animals to train? also do you just use a classic reward system?

>> No.9716756

>>9716746
Mostly neurons in the motor cortex. And yeah, reward is mostly just food.