Marc Arginteanu's Blog, page 23

Picasso���s Blue and Red Cerebral Networks

Even if you���ve never stepped foot into a museum, you���ve heard the name Pablo Picasso. After all, he was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. He lived from 1881 to 1973. That���s a long life and he...

A novel method to assess scoliosis

Treating patients with scoliosis [curvature of the spine] remains a challenge for spinal surgeons. One of the sticking points involves accurately diagnosing the severity of the condition. It turns out that most doctors s...

Poop transplant and Alzheimer's Disease

Wait a minute! What in the world is a poop transplant?

boys of summer

Raymond Pettibon provides just enough lines and words to feel the motion

of Paint and Pancakes

A novel

Albert Camus��� The Myth of Sisyphus

In Camus��� famous essay, ���The Myth of Sisyphus,��� he explores what it means to be an absurd hero: one who fully recognizes the futility and meaninglessness of one���s life, but despite that goes on living one���s limited time ...

References used for sleep posts

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/...

Make your brain���s Salience Network work for you.

If you���re feeling nervous, stressed out or scatterbrained, your salience network (SN) may be out of whack. If you���re doing OK, but would like a productivity boost, you may want to strengthen your SN.

Johnny Depp's favorite cocktail

He probably needed more than a few of these during the Amber Heard trial!

False memories

Electrical activity in the hippocampus is different when your memory is wrong. In 2023, Scientists at UPenn tested the brain waves of volunteers and asked them to memorize a list of words. The hippocampus (a key memory r...