Interesting update!
So at the risk of looking very foolish I brought up my idea to a neurologist who specializes in dementia at my medical school.
He told me that he actually published a paper on that topic that I brought up in my initial post. He approached it by using graph theory. I've...
I've never even seen a vaporizer before so I'm not expert on the smoke it contains. A internet picture is the best I can do. I would assume the density of smoke correlates with it's carcinogenicity so I need to see the smoke you're talking about.
Right, surface area is much higher with...
I wonder if temperature and stress work through interfering with intrinsic antiviral molecular pathways leading to an outbreak. The 70% risk reduction found was due to increase membrane bound IgG's, so that may fit into the intrinsic antiviral pathway as well.
Thanks to bobze, I found the new recommendation which includes ages 50 - 59 based on a 70% reduced risk of getting zoster.
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/shingles/hcp-vaccination.htm#recommendations
It is not fruitless because as you get older your memory b cells (immune cell that remembers Zoster) die. The Center for Disease Control is generally a reliable source of evidence based medicine and they recommend it for anyone 60 or older. Here's the paragraph from their report:
And here is...
Haven't looked into much about vaporizers but I assumed they reach a temperature just enough to vaporize the THC but not other carcinogenic plant matter. Do you know the purity of vaporized smoke and smoke from a GB?
This doesn't look clear to me:
So I'm saying that the more you let the smoke...
There is now a vaccine for this virus that you can get while you are older to boost your memory b cell population with ig's to VZV. You should look into it.
Aged cigarette smoke actually has been shown to be much more carcinogenic. So there is reason to believe vaporizers would be worse for you since the smoke has aged more.
Also, what is the difference in the smoke from a vaporizer and a gravity bong? Vaporizer is kind of superfluous in my opinion.
Yeah, I suggest doing some reading if you're interested in this topic. Then if you still have questions once you understand the basics don't hesitate to ask me! I'm learning more all the time about these concepts.
The whole brain is not the sum of it's parts (emergence). Classical linear mathematics = sum of its parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system
That claim just isn't true. We are a very far away from modelling the brain because of the many boundary conditions needed that are unknown...
I wouldn't say that...What do you mean by brain? There are certain properties of the brain that are like a turing machine. For example, regulating blood pressure through the baroreflex. But, consciousness does not emerge from this simple reflex arc. More complicated brain functions require a...
If you watch this lecture from Walter Lewin at MIT (), you'll understand why quantum mechanics does not apply to neurons.
Classical mechanics is sufficient to explain brain function.
Reducing multiple observations down to a single principle is what conventional science is all about. For example, connecting the motion of heavenly bodies and the downward motion of falling objects with a single attraction force between the object, F=G(m1*m2)/r^2. Or finding what atoms where...
Without getting into a long winded debate, I think it is false to say that a consensus (in neuroscience) has not been reached. We know a single neuron does not exhibit a brain function - claims to the contrary are mostly reductio ad absurdums. We know that brain functions exist inside the skull...
Hey thanks for the reply.
Thought takes place far into the macroscopic world so Heisenberg's uncertainty or the probabilistic nature of particles isn't applicable. Unfortunately, there have been brilliant physicist who have gone out of their field and made an erroneous connection between...