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Roman roads: The hierarchical endosymbiosis of cognitive modules
Serial endosymbiosis theory provides a unifying paradigm for examining the interaction of cognitive modules at vastly different scales of biological, social, and cultural organization. A trivial bu…
Received 22 October 2009 16:47 UTC; Posted 02 November 2009
Posted to: Ecology, Neuroscience, Earth & Environment, Evolutionary Biology
Endogenous Viral Etiology of Prion Diseases
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), or prion diseases, are a group of incurable neurodegenerative disorders, including Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, “mad cow” disease …
Received 21 October 2009 18:35 UTC; Posted 23 October 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Neuroscience, Evolutionary Biology
In vitro synergistic anti-prion effect of cholesterol ester modulators
Background. Our studies on the role of cholesterol in prion infection/replication showed that brains and peripheral cells of sheep susceptible to or suffering from Scrapie were characterized by an …
Received 21 October 2009 13:06 UTC; Posted 21 October 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology
Consciousness as Recursive, Spatiotemporal Self-Location
At the phenomenal level, consciousness can be described as a singular, unified field of recursive self-awareness, consistently coherent in a particular way; that of a subject located both spatially…
Received 20 October 2009 18:17 UTC; Posted 23 October 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Regulated peristalsis into the acidic region of the Drosophila larval midgut is controlled by a novel component of the Autonomic Nervous System
The underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate and coordinate critical physiological processes such as peristalsis are complex, often cryptic, and involve the integration of multipl…
Received 19 October 2009 18:20 UTC; Posted 23 October 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Neuroscience
Remarks on the number of tubulin dimers per neuron and implications for Hameroff-Penrose Orch OR
Stuart Hameroff has wrongly estimated that a typical brain neuron has 107 tubulin dimers and wrongly attributed this result to Yu and Baas, J. Neurosci. 1994; 14: 2818-2829. In this letter we sho…
Received 13 October 2009 09:35 UTC; Posted 14 October 2009
Posted to: Molecular Cell Biology, Neuroscience
An offside position in football cannot be detected in zero milliseconds
Errors when judging an offside position in football are very frequent. In the last years, several scientific papers have tried to explain the causes for human errors. When a referee or an assistant…
Received 07 October 2009 18:58 UTC; Posted 09 October 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
The Neuroanatomic Basis of the Acupuncture Principal Meridians
Acupuncture involves treating illness by inserting needles at specified body locations (acupoints). The Principal meridians are pathways that join acupoints with related physiologic effects. Despit…
Received 22 September 2009 05:21 UTC; Posted 22 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
Oxytocin makes us trusting but not gullible
Originally known for its role in childbirth and lactation, oxytocin (OT) has recently proved to play a key role in social behavior. Deprived of OT, humans are unable to recognize and to bond to the…
Received 21 September 2009 07:50 UTC; Posted 21 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
An illusion induced by an illusion -perceptual filling-in of coloured negative afterimages
Visual filling-in relates to a perceptual phenomenon in which a stimulus pattern apparently undergoes dynamic changes assuming an attribute such as colour, texture, or brightness from the surround….
Received 20 September 2009 17:46 UTC; Posted 21 September 2009
Posted to: Neuroscience
