An international team of neuroscientists claims to have successfully carried out a head transplant on a monkey, along with other related experiments. But because the details haven’t been published, experts remain skeptical.
Source: Scientists Claim to Perform Head Transplant on Monkey, Experts Say Prove It
I am an advocate of “choice” but @neuromooc explains that “choice” and “appreciation” ain’t necessarily the same thing.
My mom and I sitting on the steps of the Art Institute this past summer.
I have tried, repeatedly, to get my mother to stop driving. She just celebrated her 88th birthday. Every time I raise this issue, she emphatically insists that she is not giving up driving. I reason that the cost of taxis would easily be less than what she spends on gas, car maintenance, and insurance. She tells me that she absolutely needs the car in case there is an emergency and ____ (fill in the child or grandchild) is stranded (something that happened once roughly 15 years ago).
My friend Alex Karczmar and I share a laugh.
This parent-driving-problem is not mine alone. For a long time, I would discuss parent-driving with my friend Greg Karczmar. Greg’s father, who is also my friend, Alex Karczmar, was born in 1915. He is proud of the fact that he…
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I have a lot of sympathy for these folks and a lot of respect for their passion and nonviolence.
A lovely and moving comic by William Doan originally published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Source: Annals Graphic Medicine – She Never Woke UpShe Never Woke Up | Annals of Internal Medicine
S. S. Post writes about “The Death of Normalcy.” here, Prof. Peggy Mason @neuromooc slaps around the idea of “average”.
As many of you know, I love to hear your stories of your encounters with your brains. Through a circuitous route (no other type appears to exist in my world) that involves a marvelous final MOOC project by Luiz Meier (more on that another time), I was privileged to receive the following description of a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) from Paul Van Uytrecht, a mutual Facebook friend to Luiz and me. The account below is unedited except for the insertion of a few paragraphs to make it easier to read. Please read it and then stay with me for some comments on the average SAH experience followed by comments on the concept of average more generally.
Paul Van Uytrecht’s subarachnoid bleed
“On Sunday 3rd August 2014, at around lunchtime, I developed what I now know are the classic signs of an SAH – sudden-onset severe headache, neck stiffness, nausea and some loss of balance. I…
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