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Ed Merricks
@edmerix.bsky.social
🧠 Associate neuroscientist at Columbia University; Recording single neurons in epilepsy patients to try to understand seizures; Slowly importing/archiving my few old tweets…
So my cover art submission for our recent paper wasn't chosen (very understandable—their choice is beautiful!), so I decided to turn it into a "cover" for the paper! Might have to do this for all publications going forward... #coverneuron #science #coverart
December 5, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Made a #science vid! Flying through action potentials from a human entorhinal #neuron, showing the loss of spike shape during a seizure... And the full paper exploring this finding (and its deeper meanings) is now available in all its peer-reviewed glory: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2...
December 5, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Turns out, action potentials in neurons that are recruited to the seizure become shorter in amplitude, and longer in duration (above), and that this is exclusive to the "core" of the seizure (anterior cingulate here). Check out the paper for full gif explanations... #science!
December 5, 2024 at 8:37 PM
New #preprint showing the effects of epileptic seizures on individual human neurons, and what this means for our understanding of where seizures are actually happening: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.11.902817v1
December 5, 2024 at 8:37 PM