It has been known since at least the 1920’s that inhaling high amounts of CO2 (20%) induces panic attacks in healthy individuals. There is a remarkable literature deriving from diving and respiratory physiology in submariners available treating this topic. The great father and son team [John Scott Haldane (the physiologist and polymath) and J. B. S. Haldane (the physiologist,… Read More
Tag: Doctor of Philosophy
What use are PhD’s? What future do they have?
A picture attached to a tweet I received from Where will a biology PhD take you? Probably not academia: <8% of new PhDs will get tenure. via @jameswilsdon pic.twitter.com/wtkafMWOWZ — Mo Costandi (@mocost) April 15, 2014 @mocost (and others) is profoundly depressing. It plots the number of biology PhD students in the US (86,000) against the… Read More
CREB selectively controls learning-induced structural remodeling of neurons.
Learn Mem. 2012 Jul 18;19(8):330-6. doi: 10.1101/lm.025817.112. CREB selectively controls learning-induced structural remodeling of neurons. [download] Middei S, Spalloni A, Longone P, Pittenger C, O’Mara SM, Marie H, Ammassari-Teule M. Source CNR-National Research Council, Rome 00143, Italy. s.middei@hsantalucia.it Abstract The modulation of synaptic strength associated with learning is post-synaptically regulated by changes in density and shape of dendritic spines. The transcription factor… Read More
