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…
p.s. Twitter video compression gettin' you down? Here's the same video in better quality! https://edmerix.github.io/videos/space-neuron.mp4
December 5, 2024 at 8:37 PM
p.s. Twitter video compression gettin' you down? Here's the same video in better quality! https://edmerix.github.io/videos/space-neuron.mp4
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
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!