What a lazy Saturday.
I did work for like 2 hours and then fell asleep for 4 - whoops!
Damn, I'm scary pale.
Thank God I slept, though, because otherwise my brain would have exploded and then leaked out of my ears onto my bed.
The articles I've been reading as research for the paper I'm writing for my Independent Study with the Research Assistant I work with are getting so difficult. Here's an example:
"The excitability of these corticospinal neurons, members of the general class of pyramidal or cortical output cells, is determined by the summation of their excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Excitatory glutamatergic input to corticospinal cells comes from two main sources: distant and neighboring cortical areas and thalamic nuclei. Inhibition is mediated primarily by local inhibitory interneurons that secrete GABA, and these inhibitory interneurons appear to be driven by the same excitatory projections that drive the output cells."
Now that I can actually understand, but it took me having to look at my notes from my Drugs and Behavior class last semester and talking it out to myself for like 10 minutes. And that is how the whole article is written. I typically understand all the psych terms in articles, but when it gets into this biochem stuff, my brain starts to overheat. I'm a psych major, Goddamit!
Eeek...
I did work for like 2 hours and then fell asleep for 4 - whoops!
Damn, I'm scary pale.
Thank God I slept, though, because otherwise my brain would have exploded and then leaked out of my ears onto my bed.
The articles I've been reading as research for the paper I'm writing for my Independent Study with the Research Assistant I work with are getting so difficult. Here's an example:
"The excitability of these corticospinal neurons, members of the general class of pyramidal or cortical output cells, is determined by the summation of their excitatory and inhibitory inputs. Excitatory glutamatergic input to corticospinal cells comes from two main sources: distant and neighboring cortical areas and thalamic nuclei. Inhibition is mediated primarily by local inhibitory interneurons that secrete GABA, and these inhibitory interneurons appear to be driven by the same excitatory projections that drive the output cells."
Now that I can actually understand, but it took me having to look at my notes from my Drugs and Behavior class last semester and talking it out to myself for like 10 minutes. And that is how the whole article is written. I typically understand all the psych terms in articles, but when it gets into this biochem stuff, my brain starts to overheat. I'm a psych major, Goddamit!
Eeek...
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in other news, i want your glasses!