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Feedback, Announcements & FAQ / Introduce yourself / Re: This is me
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on: April 18, 2008, 01:32:13 AM
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Hello all! I will try to remember things as distant as school. My majors were in chemistry and maths, after I went on to studying medicine at Belarusian State Medical University in Minsk, and continuing it now at Charite- Berlin. In September 2007 I’ve joined Medical Neurosciences Master Program. My interests are in psychiatry, cognitive science and consciousness research. Apart from that in global health issues and use of new media in medicine and neuroscience. Since I had a strange idea of becoming a psychiatrist I decided to get a training in martial arts, don’t know how these two are connected  So now my aim is to officially wear white coat with a black belt! I like traveling to new countries (the main reason is to explore the chocolate landscapes  and I always listen to music no matter what I am doing. Feel free to message me about everything and add me on a Facebook, I am usually friendly person =) ----- “Would you please be so kind to explain me who I am? NOW!” Oscar Wilde
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Neuroscience / Weblog / Science 2.0
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on: January 19, 2008, 06:00:59 AM
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Scientific American published an online feature article "Science 2.0" about the use of "wikis, blogs and other Web 2.0 technologies as a potentially transformative way of doing science". Scientists are quite slow in embracing blogging, but other tools like open access science publishing PLoS ONE or wiki OpenWetWare are gaining popularity. The article is also an experiment on "networked journalism", meaning that the readers are invited to contribute by commenting on its content and reporting before it gets forwarded to the press. |
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Neuroscience / Clinical Neuroscience / Re: Multiple Sclerosis Review?
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on: November 28, 2007, 06:22:00 PM
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In relapsing-remitting MS it seems like the glial cells stop producing myelin sometime and after a recovery period(?) they just start producing again. Is there an explanation for that? To me, this sounds very strange. Like making a coffee break or something. Because the anew start of production shows that the cells are still capable of their duty, right?
@Steffen:probably you are done by this time with your presentation, but the topic is really exciting, so i just wanted to continue about RRMS. Ive heard couple of interesting things today concerning what you wrote in a passage above.
So, the first point is: there is a discrepance between clinical and subclinical activity in MS. in other words, there are many more lesions sometimes found in patients that had only little clinical manifestations, so demyelination does not always correspond to a relapse period.
Second thing is, i believe remission periods happen due to remyelination processes. Basically if you imagine brain of MS patient, there will be at any time areas where demyelination is going on, some areas where remyelination is going on, and in progressive disease also areas of cortical lesions. So probably when remyelination dominates in particular region responsible for a disfunction, patient experiences remission.
i hope this answers in part your question, though i don't know how exactly remyelination is happening.
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Neuroscience / Weblog / Plant Neurobiology
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on: November 14, 2007, 01:14:25 AM
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What do plants have to teach neuroscientists if they don't even have nervous system? Well, perhaps they have something more than complicated interconnection of neurons, that can give us some ideas about the nature of intelligence and whether we need brain for it. Prof. Mancuso - the head of planet's first International Laboratory for Plant Neurobiology ( LINV) argues, that green matter can be nearly as sophisticated as gray matter is. Plants are intelligent beings, and this is not only about signaling and response systems.
"If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us. Not only are they 'smart' in how they grow, adapt and thrive, they do it without neuroses. Intelligence isn't only about having a brain." Prof. MancusoI probably would agree on that "not only" remark, because thinking in neuroscientific terms one would come to the conclusion that the plants have so called "basic intelligence", which means merely adapting to the environment and may be one want to call it "learning". What in addition to that humans can do is understanding, reasoning and thinking abstractly (and having neuroses), for what having brain is rather inevitable. And then, for those interested in space research, LINV is currently working on the first robot inspired by plants ("plantoid"), which will be used for exploring the soil on the Mars. May be plantoid will be the first intelligent being there! |
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Neuroscience / Weblog / Emotional Neuroscience Conference 31 August - 1 September 2007
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on: August 21, 2007, 04:33:31 PM
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Date: August 31 and September 1, 2007Location: Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, Auditorium Psychiatry, Bonhoefferweg 3, Department of Psychiatry
General Information: Ruth Sophia Dirkes, Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, CCM. Fon: +49 30 450 517002, Fax: +49 30 450 517921, Email: ruthsofia.dirkes@charite.deDetails: http://www.charite.de/psychiatrie/aktuelles.htmlYou can download the flyer and registration form here.
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