Recent content by nigeld

memory and Snooker Each Sunday for the last year I have played snooker with someone who is increasingly suffering from Early-onset Alzheimer's. It has proved to be a remarkably scientific way to monitor its progress, and how his short term/long term and other cogitative functions are...

While we know quite a lot about the brain, including the fact that there are changes such as LTP which clearly are linked to the recording of memory, I think it would be fair to say that we really do not understand how memory works. At the moment, I think this area comes into the 'The more we...

I have sometimes wondered whether there might be a link to gene expression in the neurons, with there being a conflict between the chromosome state required for waking neural activity, and for gene expression. There is a published paper about a woman in Japan who sleeps for 20 odd days, then...

A couple of references: The original work showing that cell size relates to ploidyness is Frankhauser, G. (1945). "The effects of changes in chromosome number on amphibian development." Quart. Rev. Biol 20: 20-78. There has been a recent review covering this general topic, which is on...