SenorTibbs

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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806285/ [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3196277/
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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
It looks like the question surveyed was just "When somebody loses weight, where does it go?" The reason why FM physicians got this wrong is most likely just a framing issue. It's not a wrong answer; fats are broken down by be
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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
Yeah a reflex is innate by definition and not learned. They're also much more simplistic responses than this - think a baby fanning its toes out when you touch the sole of its foot. I think they might have been thinking of a conditione
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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
This is a really great point and I believe it is (at least partially) driving the anti-science rhetoric that seems to be metastasizing. When a topic is inaccessible to the general public, and only experts in the field can understand it and
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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
Not as a correction but more of an into the weeds clarification; neurons at rest have a pretty stable cytosolic ionic composition, they hover around -80mV resting potential due to leak channels. The firing of an action potential, on the oth
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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
Just as an aside - what kind of data do you look at for computational psychology?
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by SenorTibbs 6y ago
It's a metabolic intermediate of the citric acid cycle - the cycle is needed to reduce electron carriers (NAD+/FAD) which are then used to drive the electron transport chain for making ATP. In simplest terms: it's an importan