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My Brain...Forever Wars and a sloppy blue brushing #books #BookReview #MilSF #TheForeverWar #consciousness #Philosophy #writing #blog #warhammer #warhammer40k #minipainting #BroodBrothers #KillTeam #WarhammerCommunity

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Brane Connectome Project: Vertex

Getting between universes can be easier than getting to the next star Latest post in a #Neuro #Science #Fiction #WorldBuilding project The #Brane #Connectome Project: Vertex

Vertex (noun, plural vertices or vertexes) The highest point, top or apex of something.  (geometry) An angular point of a polygon, polyhedron or higher order polytope. Synonym: Corner (graph theory) One of the elements of a graph joined or not by edges to other vertices.  Synonym: Node (cosmology) A node on the multi-versal hypergraph (colloquially, “The Worlds Tree”). Synonym:…

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My Brain...comfort food,for thought

Some stuff I read / visited / painting / write #StephenBaxter #HGWells #WarOfTheWorlds #scifi #DylanDog #comic #Forensics #Warhammer #WarhammerCommunity #art #writing #blog

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Brane Connectome Project: Basically Fetid

Latest post in a #Neuro #Science #Fiction #WorldBuilding project The #Brane #Connectome: Basically Fetid

Do not think of us at the dawn. Dawn is thing of suns, and of the peoples that huddle to them. Our worlds were rogue, wanderers, under a sky that shone. When the very universe was warm to the touch. Suns were not the greatest among our gods. We grew into understanding. That we were first. That we were alone. That things could not last. Our Warm Time was fleeting. Due to give way to frigid…

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Brane Connectome Project: Edge

Latest post in a #Neuro #Science #Fiction #WorldBuilding project The #Brane #Connectome #writing #blogging #scifi #space #multiverse #wormhole #ftl #fasterthanlight #BraneConnectomeProject #TalesFromTheWorldsTree

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Multiple sclerosis: global health and access to essential healthcare

A personal PoV on issues of #globalhelath and #evidencebasedmedicine in the context of #multiplesclerosis #MRI and #access to #essentialmedicines #MS #MSIF #WHO #Cochrane

‘Global faces of MS’ video, by the MS International Federation (MSIF) Neurological problems are something that can effect anybody, impacting at least 1 in 3 people at some point in their lives [1]. The experience of having neurological disorder and receiving appropriate healthcare can differ due to different factors, and a lot can depend on where you are located. There are many factors that…

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The Brane Connectome Project: Relativity rules

Latest post in a #Neuro #Science #Fiction #WorldBuilding project #writing #blogging #scifi #space #multiverse #wormhole #ftl #fasterthanlight

The history of the dream of star-flight is built on the bones of the hope of faster-than-light travel. – Space, time: when, where? (Olympus Mons, Dustbunny Press) Aerospace frame, abandoned (Photo by Collins Lesulie on Unsplash) The absolute limit of things that can influence – or can be influenced – by an observer is defined in relativity by the speed of light. This luminal limit, “c”, is…

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Brane Connectome Project : tales from the Worlds Tree

[Deep breath] The first post in what I hope becomes a series, a #Neuro #Science #Fiction #WorldBuilding project #writing #blogging #scifi #space #multiverse

The bio-signs weren’t hard to find when we got serious about looking. Almost as soon as we had a presence away from Earth, “astrobiologist” became a job with fieldwork. “Paleo-xenologist”, too, naturally, given the breadth of time in the deeps of space. Expanding, gradually, in a fitful bubble around Sol we found ‘intelligence’ – it’s common, even. Just like your Earth primates, cephalopods,…

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My Brain [citation needed]

Something read and reviewed, and something reviewed and published (and read, hopefully) #books #reviews #systematicreviews #multiplesclerosis

Something I Read I recently read The Girl With All the Gifts, (2014) by Mike Carey, an author that I know better from their comics work. In particular, Lucifer, which follows the titular character after they quit their day job as Hell’s boss in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, is a series I’ve come back to time and time again. Here we have Carey’s take on the zombie apocalypse which they attack with…

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My Brain...takes a big swing

A journey to the source of #consciusness and the #hobby corner #books #bookreviews #blogging #writing #warhammer40k #warhammercommunity #miniatures #bologna

What I read The Hidden Spring: a journey to the source of consciousness An overview of brain structure at a large scale, highlighting the midbrain. From Wikimedia. The Hidden Spring, an ambitious book by Mark Solms, wants to sell you on two things. First, that it has the outlines of a theory of consciousness. Second, that other theories – on multiple counts – are looking for it in the wrong…

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I see what you did there…a (very) brief history of imaging the brain: blood, BOLD and fMRI

A little more #neuro #science #history This time: functional magnetic resonance imaging #fMRI #BOLD #scicomm #writing #blogging #neuroscience #brain

For many patients we can discover – or discount – physical causes of neurological problems ‘in real time’ with a range of imaging and other measurement techniques. Neuroimaging techniques are mainly children of the 20th century, and their development is ongoing in the 21st, but their roots stretch back through the 19th century. For example, photography and its ability to reproduce an enduring…

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This way up: a user's guide to the blog(ger)

Neuro +/- Science +/- Fiction…is the tag-line. By way of explanation: Neuro + Science I’m a researcher in neuroscience, neurology and health. I’m (currently) interested in brains, imaging, evidence synthesis, global health and science communication. Check out My Publications for my professional work, the My Research tag for explainers. The contact page points to my presence on the…

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I see what you did there…a (very) brief history of imaging the brain: PET and SPECT

A little more #neuro #science #history on the development of #brain #imaging This time: Positron Emission Tomography (#PET) and SPECT #scicomm #writing #blogging

For many patients we can discover – or discount – physical causes of neurological problems ‘in real time’ with a range of imaging and other measurement techniques. Neuroimaging techniques are mainly children of the 20th century, and their development is ongoing in the 21st, but their roots stretch back through 19th century. For example, photography and its ability to reproduce an enduring…

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I see what you did there…a (very) brief history of imaging the brain: MRI

A little #neuro #science #history on the development of #brain #imaging This time: magnetic resonance imaging (#MRI) #scicomm #writing #blogging

For many patients we can discover – or discount – physical causes of neurological problems ‘in real time’ with a range of imaging and other measurement techniques. Though these techniques are mainly children of the 20th Century, and their development is ongoing in the 21st, their roots stretch back through 19th century. For example, photography and its ability to reproduce an enduring ‘objective’…

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I see what you did there…a (very) brief history of imaging the brain: X-rays to CT scans

A little #neuro #science #history on the development of #brain imaging# This time: #X-rays and #CT #scicomm #writing #blogging

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Brain bits and X-nuclei MRI: What I did at work today

A collaboration I’m involved in has just been published [1]. It’s about a special kind of MRI focused on the chemical element sodium, using meta-analysis to combine estimates form different studies in different brain regions. So what’s the fuss about? Sodium: Why are we interested? Sodium (23Na) is an essential mineral that has a number of important biological functions. For neurons in…

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My Brain...feeling feels for the gibbering horrors

In lieu of a more substantial post, here's a book-themed mess.

In lieu of a more substantial post, here’s a book-themed mess. Public Service Announcement: Do not adjust your twitter First though, given the continuing whatever-the-hell on twitter, while I’m maintaining my account there (@Neuron2sumthing) in lurk/broadcast only mode, I’ve broadened out a bit and you can now find me on mastodon (@neurontosomething@mas.to) and tumblr (@neurontosomething), in…