NeuroSway
@massaging-brains.bsky.social
*Neuroscience Research UCSD*
brain-body, wellness, habit/learning, psychedelics, emotion/affect for long-term naturally healing and management
brain-body, wellness, habit/learning, psychedelics, emotion/affect for long-term naturally healing and management
A good, eye-opening listen...
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Are Your Medications Safe And Effective?, with Jerry Avorn
Podcast Episode · Big Brains · 06/26/2025 · 37m
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August 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A good, eye-opening listen...
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🧠 UCSD Neuroscience - emotion, habit, body-brain connection, chronic pain, neuroimaging, neuroplasticity, 17 years bodywork/wellness
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August 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Things I want to fight for as a scientist...
1. A better healthcare system
2. Acceptance of preventative and integrative care (wellness approach)
3. Better access to healthcare for all
4. Diminished stigmas around mental health
5. Patients to be HEARD
6. Encouragement of self-care from a young age
1. A better healthcare system
2. Acceptance of preventative and integrative care (wellness approach)
3. Better access to healthcare for all
4. Diminished stigmas around mental health
5. Patients to be HEARD
6. Encouragement of self-care from a young age
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Things I want to fight for as a scientist...
1. A better healthcare system
2. Acceptance of preventative and integrative care (wellness approach)
3. Better access to healthcare for all
4. Diminished stigmas around mental health
5. Patients to be HEARD
6. Encouragement of self-care from a young age
1. A better healthcare system
2. Acceptance of preventative and integrative care (wellness approach)
3. Better access to healthcare for all
4. Diminished stigmas around mental health
5. Patients to be HEARD
6. Encouragement of self-care from a young age
I study neuroscience but I'm fascinated with the whole body.
I just learned that, when you're born, your appendix is right under your navel but as the intestines grow, it shift to the lower right. When people have appendicitis, the brain remembers the original location so the pain is felt there!
I just learned that, when you're born, your appendix is right under your navel but as the intestines grow, it shift to the lower right. When people have appendicitis, the brain remembers the original location so the pain is felt there!
June 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I study neuroscience but I'm fascinated with the whole body.
I just learned that, when you're born, your appendix is right under your navel but as the intestines grow, it shift to the lower right. When people have appendicitis, the brain remembers the original location so the pain is felt there!
I just learned that, when you're born, your appendix is right under your navel but as the intestines grow, it shift to the lower right. When people have appendicitis, the brain remembers the original location so the pain is felt there!
Did anyone else ever feel guilty for turning their brain off after the graduated college?
June 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Did anyone else ever feel guilty for turning their brain off after the graduated college?
I just received an honors B.S. in #neuroscience at #ucsd and I'm looking forward to my next chapter!
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I just received an honors B.S. in #neuroscience at #ucsd and I'm looking forward to my next chapter!
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Yoga is for everyone, everywhere. 🌎
This #InternationalDayOfYoga, take 10 minutes to reconnect with your breath and body.
No gear needed. Just you, your breath, and a little space. 🌿
Start your journey today—download the WHO mYoga app now: shorturl.at/SdOai
This #InternationalDayOfYoga, take 10 minutes to reconnect with your breath and body.
No gear needed. Just you, your breath, and a little space. 🌿
Start your journey today—download the WHO mYoga app now: shorturl.at/SdOai
June 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Yoga is for everyone, everywhere. 🌎
This #InternationalDayOfYoga, take 10 minutes to reconnect with your breath and body.
No gear needed. Just you, your breath, and a little space. 🌿
Start your journey today—download the WHO mYoga app now: shorturl.at/SdOai
This #InternationalDayOfYoga, take 10 minutes to reconnect with your breath and body.
No gear needed. Just you, your breath, and a little space. 🌿
Start your journey today—download the WHO mYoga app now: shorturl.at/SdOai
Apparently they don't have any idea how mental health and addiction work. It's like "it happened already, you should be fine by now. Get over it." 🤦🏼♀️
March 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Apparently they don't have any idea how mental health and addiction work. It's like "it happened already, you should be fine by now. Get over it." 🤦🏼♀️
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PSA that no matter what ridiculous, unscientific “research” comes out in the next year or two about vaccines, a plethora of rigorous, reproducible studies have demonstrated safety and efficacy of vaccines with ZERO link to autism. Autism is largely (if not entirely) genetic. Tell your friends.
March 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
PSA that no matter what ridiculous, unscientific “research” comes out in the next year or two about vaccines, a plethora of rigorous, reproducible studies have demonstrated safety and efficacy of vaccines with ZERO link to autism. Autism is largely (if not entirely) genetic. Tell your friends.
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A novel fMRI study in Science shows that babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories.
The findings suggest that infantile amnesia is more likely caused by memory retrieval failures rather than an inability to form memories in the first place. scim.ag/422LFb9
The findings suggest that infantile amnesia is more likely caused by memory retrieval failures rather than an inability to form memories in the first place. scim.ag/422LFb9
Hippocampal encoding of memories in human infants
Humans lack memories for specific events from the first few years of life. We investigated the mechanistic basis of this infantile amnesia by scanning the brains of awake infants with functional magne...
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March 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A novel fMRI study in Science shows that babies as young as 12 months old can encode memories.
The findings suggest that infantile amnesia is more likely caused by memory retrieval failures rather than an inability to form memories in the first place. scim.ag/422LFb9
The findings suggest that infantile amnesia is more likely caused by memory retrieval failures rather than an inability to form memories in the first place. scim.ag/422LFb9
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How does sleep protect against neurodegenerative disease? A review, open-access
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
How does sleep protect against neurodegenerative disease? A review, open-access
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | A Potassium Channel on Axons Reduces Ectopic Spikes; Identifying a Regulator of Oligodendrocyte Fate www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
This Week in The Journal
A Potassium Channel on Axons Reduces Ectopic Spikes
Nooshin Abdollahi, Yu-Feng Xie, Stephanie Ratte, and Steven A. Prescott
(see article e1889242025)
Action potentials, or spikes, transmit informa...
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March 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | A Potassium Channel on Axons Reduces Ectopic Spikes; Identifying a Regulator of Oligodendrocyte Fate www.jneurosci.org/content/45/1...
I think we should take Elon's 'x' back and apply it to those flagged research terms as such:
Fxmale
Prxgnant
Fxtus
Trxns
Gxndxr
Xessible
Incusivx
Divxrsity...
(And so on)
I mean if science already has its own language (mainly stemming from Latin), why not put a modern spin on it?
Fxmale
Prxgnant
Fxtus
Trxns
Gxndxr
Xessible
Incusivx
Divxrsity...
(And so on)
I mean if science already has its own language (mainly stemming from Latin), why not put a modern spin on it?
March 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I think we should take Elon's 'x' back and apply it to those flagged research terms as such:
Fxmale
Prxgnant
Fxtus
Trxns
Gxndxr
Xessible
Incusivx
Divxrsity...
(And so on)
I mean if science already has its own language (mainly stemming from Latin), why not put a modern spin on it?
Fxmale
Prxgnant
Fxtus
Trxns
Gxndxr
Xessible
Incusivx
Divxrsity...
(And so on)
I mean if science already has its own language (mainly stemming from Latin), why not put a modern spin on it?
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📰 Out now in @commsbio.bsky.social! 🧠🧲🔍
Why should fMRI connectivity be limited to gray matter nodes?
Using ADC-fMRI, we can robustly include white matter nodes and explore white-to-gray and white-to-white connectivity.
Masterfully led by Inès de Riedmatten!
#FIREPATH
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Why should fMRI connectivity be limited to gray matter nodes?
Using ADC-fMRI, we can robustly include white matter nodes and explore white-to-gray and white-to-white connectivity.
Masterfully led by Inès de Riedmatten!
#FIREPATH
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Apparent Diffusion Coefficient fMRI shines light on white matter resting-state connectivity compared to BOLD - Communications Biology
de Riedmatten et al. propose apparent diffusion coefficient functional MRI as a novel contrast for assessing functional connectivity in both grey matter and white matter, addressing the limitations of...
www.nature.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:00 PM
📰 Out now in @commsbio.bsky.social! 🧠🧲🔍
Why should fMRI connectivity be limited to gray matter nodes?
Using ADC-fMRI, we can robustly include white matter nodes and explore white-to-gray and white-to-white connectivity.
Masterfully led by Inès de Riedmatten!
#FIREPATH
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Why should fMRI connectivity be limited to gray matter nodes?
Using ADC-fMRI, we can robustly include white matter nodes and explore white-to-gray and white-to-white connectivity.
Masterfully led by Inès de Riedmatten!
#FIREPATH
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
I'm in my 40's so back when they did immunizations in late 70's early 80's, the "records" were handwritten in a baby book. Got the notification that I should probably get an MMR titer, so I'm going in tomorrow. 🤞🏼
March 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm in my 40's so back when they did immunizations in late 70's early 80's, the "records" were handwritten in a baby book. Got the notification that I should probably get an MMR titer, so I'm going in tomorrow. 🤞🏼
I need to start a science blog. I need to start a science blog. I need to start a science blog. I need to start a science blog.
Imposter syndrome is stunting my next steps. I mean, I have 16 years in bodywork and it so well ties in with the brain-body connection aspect of neuroscience.
Imposter syndrome is stunting my next steps. I mean, I have 16 years in bodywork and it so well ties in with the brain-body connection aspect of neuroscience.
March 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I need to start a science blog. I need to start a science blog. I need to start a science blog. I need to start a science blog.
Imposter syndrome is stunting my next steps. I mean, I have 16 years in bodywork and it so well ties in with the brain-body connection aspect of neuroscience.
Imposter syndrome is stunting my next steps. I mean, I have 16 years in bodywork and it so well ties in with the brain-body connection aspect of neuroscience.
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as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech
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March 15, 2025 at 6:49 PM
as I tell my Genetics class every year, this breakthrough is based on 70 years of NIH-funded, basic research, commercialized by biotech
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Now Kenny is on BlueSky, welcome @k-kan.bsky.social
New Layer-fMRI paper: T1234.
A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies.
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4
By Kenny at al.
A sequence that gets structural reference data, in 3-4 minutes. While also being optimized for applications in layer-fMRI studies.
doi.org/10.1002/mrm....
Here a the MRM highlights video with practical tricks: youtu.be/9GBP9i1V3c4
By Kenny at al.
March 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Now Kenny is on BlueSky, welcome @k-kan.bsky.social
"...seem to be a link between moon phases and changes in symptoms of bipolar disorder/some evidence that full moon can lead to less deep sleep and delay in entering into REM/some studies have shown slight change in cardiovascular conditions during a full moon."
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March 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
"...seem to be a link between moon phases and changes in symptoms of bipolar disorder/some evidence that full moon can lead to less deep sleep and delay in entering into REM/some studies have shown slight change in cardiovascular conditions during a full moon."
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We eat Italian pi(e) 🍕 on pi day π
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We eat Italian pi(e) 🍕 on pi day π
Overhearing a massage client talk about excitatory DREADDS, I have to ask...
Come to find out they work at a lab at Salk as a neuroscience grad student. I know someone in her lab and she knows someone in mine! Oh and her hubby is in Psychiatry at the university!
Come to find out they work at a lab at Salk as a neuroscience grad student. I know someone in her lab and she knows someone in mine! Oh and her hubby is in Psychiatry at the university!
March 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Overhearing a massage client talk about excitatory DREADDS, I have to ask...
Come to find out they work at a lab at Salk as a neuroscience grad student. I know someone in her lab and she knows someone in mine! Oh and her hubby is in Psychiatry at the university!
Come to find out they work at a lab at Salk as a neuroscience grad student. I know someone in her lab and she knows someone in mine! Oh and her hubby is in Psychiatry at the university!
Science fact of the day:
I just learned that mice can't vomit!
Yet, they have a median eminence which is a trigger organ to induce vomiting. 🤔
I just learned that mice can't vomit!
Yet, they have a median eminence which is a trigger organ to induce vomiting. 🤔
March 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Science fact of the day:
I just learned that mice can't vomit!
Yet, they have a median eminence which is a trigger organ to induce vomiting. 🤔
I just learned that mice can't vomit!
Yet, they have a median eminence which is a trigger organ to induce vomiting. 🤔
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Genome editing success for the first time in nine patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a heritable disease which can cause cirrhosis and emphysema, affecting ~100,000 Americans, which is similar to the prevalence of sickle cell disease
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
Mutated DNA Restored to Normal in Gene Therapy Advance
The small study in patients with a rare disorder that causes liver and lung damage showed the potential for precisely targeted infusions.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Genome editing success for the first time in nine patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, a heritable disease which can cause cirrhosis and emphysema, affecting ~100,000 Americans, which is similar to the prevalence of sickle cell disease
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...