Questions tagged [neuroscience]
For questions on the structure and function of the nervous system.
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Is there a to detect when somone is napping using wearable/portable devices?
If Someone unwantedly naps during the day. Is there any feasible way to detect them and send out an alert to wake him up?
Regarding The specifics: I meant if a student just unwantedly napped on his ...
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Is the brain's network connected in the graph theoretic sense
In mathematics, a graph $G = (V, E)$ is connected if, given any pair of nodes $x, y$, there is a path $x\ldots y$.
The brain is of course an intractably large network and can be modeled with a ...
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Hebbian learning / STDP -- what happens if one of the neurons do not fire?
I have read from the textbook that if neuron A is connected to neuron B with synapse C, then:
if neuron A fires before neuron B fires, synapse C increases in strength roughly proportional to $f(t) = ...
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What is the difference in amplitude and latency of IPSPs or EPSPs?
I'm building a Jansen & Rit whole brain model. In the original paper, it states:
A and B determine the maximum
amplitude of the excitatory and inhibitory PSP (EPSP
and IPSP), respectively, and a ...
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Integrating Distinct Color Info From binocular vision?
Are humans capable of learning to integrate different color information from their two eyes?
If someone wore glasses all the time with different filters on left/right eyes (eg a red suppressing filter ...
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What is the function of thalamic relaying of information?
There is a theory that one of the functions of the thalamus is to "relay information between brain areas", e.g. to relay visual information to the visual cortex.
Just to check that I ...
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anorexiant αMSH
I came across The 2020–2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research, curious after a lecture in nutritional genomics.
I read a couple of papers:
Ilnytska, O., & Argyropoulos, G. (2008). The ...
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Do neurons with one axon only project to a single target neuron? [duplicate]
Pyramidal neurons (among others) only have one axon. Am I right to assume that this means they only project to one target neuron, or can this axon branch out into multiple sub-axons at some point, and ...
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How to derive Eq (1.34) based on a circuit as Eq (1.5) does in the book Neuronal Dynamics
In section 1.5 of text Neuronal Dynamics, there is an equation (1.34). I have difficulty understanding how this equation is derived. I can see that this equation looks very similar to equation (1.5) ...
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Does chronic THC consumption affect sweating or thermoregulation?
I am wondering how regular long term consumption of THC affects sweating and thermoregulation.
I can't seem to find any papers studying the connection between CB1 activity and sweating / ...
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Hanning window size in EEG power spectrum
I must compute the power spectrum density of sleep EEGs. I was told by an experienced scientist that the process goes as follows:
Artifact detect/reject the EEG
Compute the power spectrum for every 2 ...
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Slow-wave EEG artifact removal
If we want to study a sleep EEG signal in any way (e.g. compute its power spectrum), do we need to remove artifacts from the whole EEG signal, or do we simply need to extract those epochs that ...
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How do I recognize a dog?
I know, neurons take in data from the eyes and pass the data on through synapses to subsequent neurons and synaptic weights from many neurons pass into the subsequent neuron and the neuron adds up all ...
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What is it called when you plan to writing one word but end up writing another thats similar in writing but different in meaning [duplicate]
Is there a name for when you're thinking of one word, you're writing/typing it in but end up writing/typing another word with a different meaning yet similar typing happens? I often have this problem ...
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To what degree are discussions and concepts within philosophy of mind relevant in the field of neuroscience?
Philosophy of mind is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world.
The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in philosophy of ...
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