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GunChicka posted:No, I can't support myself without the walker. It's possible with fore arm crutches too but I don't know if I'll progress enough to use them, but still needs assistance from a therapist. They control the gait and balance of it. They are pretty quiet. I'm assuming you're up on all the research, but there's some really interesting stuff happening in spinal injury research using efferent feedback and stimulation of nociceptive pathways e.g: http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2811%2960547-3/fulltext We've more or less just been able to make human pluripotent stem cells and that seems to offer a treatment avenue, it's working in animal models, e.g: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0896627314006254 AMA! Full disclosure, I'm a neuroscientist, but I specialise in CNS, not PNS. SuperiorColliculus has a new favorite as of 23:28 on May 22, 2015 |
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SuperiorColliculus posted:Full disclosure, I'm a neuroscientist Well it's about god drat time you got here
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May 22, 2015 23:31
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SuperiorColliculus posted:Full disclosure, I'm a neuroscientist What the hell are you doing on this site? Shouldn't you be out somewhere being smart?
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May 22, 2015 23:33
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I'm multitasking. There's not a lot to do during recordings you see, and... 
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May 22, 2015 23:46
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SuperiorColliculus posted:Full disclosure, I'm a neuroscientist, but I specialise in CNS, not PNS. Isn't spinal cord part of central nervous system, not peripheral? Soo, a part of your specialization?
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May 22, 2015 23:47
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SuperiorColliculus posted:AMA! So when can I walk again? J/k that stuff is awesome but they've been extolling medical breakthroughs with stem cells like forever now. It's cool research but never seems to turn into practical outcomes. The exo skeletons are cool too and I loved my experience with it, but again way less practical and costly than wheelchairs.
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May 22, 2015 23:51
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Well, yes. I meant that I specialise in the neck-up bits, not the neck-down bits. My disdain for the spinal cord leads to mentally lumping it in with the PNS.
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May 22, 2015 23:52
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SuperiorColliculus posted:My disdain for the spinal cord (USER WAS PROBATED FROM SPINAL CORD FOR THIS POST)
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Disco Infiva posted:Isn't spinal cord part of central nervous system, not peripheral? Soo, a part of your specialization? This is what I learned in class a few weeks ago also, but I didn't want to disagree with a neuroscientist and come out as an idiot.
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May 22, 2015 23:57
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GunChicka posted:So when can I walk again? I know you're kidding, and this stuff seems to move really glacially in terms of actual outputs to humans, but neural prosthetics are something that's really taking off in a big way, and only in the last few years. e.g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPerfpxYJ1U - ignore the annoying presenter, but the video of paralyzed rats walking with a neural prosthesis is pretty cool. It's only since the 1970's - 80's that we've come to understand how plastic the brain is. We're seriously in an explosion in neuroscience research that looks (to someone on the inside) like the the boom in semiconductor research in the 50's. I'm actually postdoccing at Stanford, so the parallels are pretty striking for me. I wouldn't give up hope for at least a first-generation human treatment within the next decade. Not a picture of me, but here's a picture of what I'm recording as I type. That peak looking thing in the second box from the top left is a neuron I'm recording from a behaving mouse. 
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May 22, 2015 23:58
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SuperiorColliculus posted:I know you're kidding, and this stuff seems to move really glacially in terms of actual outputs to humans, but neural prosthetics are something that's really taking off in a big way, and only in the last few years. Well if you find something exciting hook a gal up, bro.
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May 23, 2015 00:00
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Neuroscientist and a diaper fetishist. A renaissance man.
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May 23, 2015 00:12
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I once made someone mad enough to spend :tenbux: on a red title. Truly, an accomplishment worthy of da Vinci.
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May 23, 2015 00:14
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Don't recall, honestly. I seem to think I was arguing with someone about antidepressants in E/N. Which, when you reflect on it, is a good enough reason to get red text. /edit because I didn't, and this is the thread for it: here's the first google image result for me! 
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May 23, 2015 00:25
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You have very pretty eyes.
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May 23, 2015 01:26
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SuperiorColliculus posted:Don't recall, honestly. I seem to think I was arguing with someone about antidepressants in E/N. Are...are you famous actor Henry Thomas?
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I don't think so... at least, not last time I checked. Wait, is that the E.T kid? I do like to visit NYC and drink IPAs from mason jars though. I'm a New Zealander, so this is a novelty for me. 
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May 23, 2015 01:35
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well gently caress he's a hobbit
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I have the hairy feet and underground house* to prove it *house may not be underground, or indeed a house as opposed to a lovely overpriced apartment SuperiorColliculus has a new favorite as of 01:44 on May 23, 2015 |
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May 23, 2015 01:37
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So you're a neuroscientist with gorgeous eyes who lives in a picturesque country and works on curing spinal cord injuries. Jesus Christ marry me.
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One out of four... Am neuroscientist, live in the bay area (although you'll probably send me back to NZ when my J-1 visa expires unless I can find an academic job here), work on memory and spatial navigation and not the spine, am already getting (re)married in a week. Otherwise, sure! SuperiorColliculus has a new favorite as of 01:44 on May 23, 2015 |
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May 23, 2015 01:42
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Aww... can love blossom in the Post Your Picture thread? 
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May 23, 2015 01:45
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GunChicka posted:So you're a neuroscientist with gorgeous eyes who lives in a picturesque country and works on curing spinal cord injuries. Jesus Christ marry me. I'll give him a handy-j for you if he promises to work hard on the issue as soon as I get back to the bay area. It's the least I can do.
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LingcodKilla posted:I'll give him a handy-j for you if he promises to work hard on the issue as soon as I get back to the bay area. It's the least I can do. Well we just take the best life gives us, go for it.
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Baby's first mustache. Except I'm 37. Got bored and dont got no one to kiss so why not?
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LingcodKilla posted:Baby's first mustache. That's a good 'stache. Matches the eyebrows.
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That's a solid `stache. 
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:Apparently those are giant punches or stamps so I will guess you are stamping colossal engravings of dickbutt into things Well, of all the wonderful guesses so far, you're the closest. They are stamps of a kind (punches would be a better term). I just realized I deleted the other pictures of the machinery I work with. The tools aren't all that big, probably 13-14 inches tall. Found a picture of the machine that I work with that those tools go in.  Jesus, that facility looks about a hundred times cleaner than the place I work in. Also like it might be air conditioned. I envy the person(s) that operate that one.
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Inzombiac posted:That's your smile?  Better? Sorry, I'm a teenager, someday I will learn to have fun. Three Olives has a new favorite as of 04:32 on May 23, 2015 |
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SuperiorColliculus posted:One out of four... Rains, EV, Oak Creek?
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Potato Alley posted:Rains, EV, Oak Creek? They don't let us postdocs live in graduate student housing. I live out by the western side of the 101 technically in east Palo Alto
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SuperiorColliculus posted:They don't let us postdocs live in graduate student housing. I live out by the western side of the 101 technically in east Palo Alto Ah, good old Whiskey Gulch. Good luck not getting shot.
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Potato Alley posted:Ah, good old Whiskey Gulch. hey now, I only occasionally hear gunfire, and it's always on the other side of the freeway. And yes, as a New Zealander, this is terrifying to me. Pay your postdocs better.
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Potato Alley posted:Ah, good old Whiskey Gulch. Lol the "real" whiskey gulch got demolished in the late 90s. Though it was the murder capital of the world in the early nighties. I grew up near there and partied there in the late nineties. You can judge how bad that area currently is by the McDonalds. If the Golden Arches has a shotgun armed guard posting outside its time to go. Thankfully things have been calm for about a decade now.
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.... There's no McDonald's around here. Is there?
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SuperiorColliculus posted:.... There's no McDonald's around here. It's on university in front of the police HQ and library. The only Bof A atm is there too. You been across town to the Nut House on California in Palo Alto proper? Best crappy bar in the county.
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You mean on the other side of the freeway!!??? Nuthouse is good, as is the oasis on El Camino. Rose and Crown would be fine except for that one arsehole bartender. I feel like this calls for a mid Bay Area goon meet at the nuthouse. 
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SuperiorColliculus posted:You mean on the other side of the freeway!!??? You big wuss. I work as an armed atm tech on a one man crew servicing most of the machines in that poo poo hole. It's not as bad as it looks anymore.
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