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Consolidated Chamber Design And Protocol For Olfactory Conditioning Assay With Drosophila Melanogaster, Sasha Bronovitskiy, Andres Castillo, Michael Yan, Fang Ju Lin May 2023

Consolidated Chamber Design And Protocol For Olfactory Conditioning Assay With Drosophila Melanogaster, Sasha Bronovitskiy, Andres Castillo, Michael Yan, Fang Ju Lin

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

The olfactory conditioning assay is widely used in Alzheimer’s disease research to quantify learning and memory in Drosophila melanogaster. The assay tests ability to recall an aversive conditioned stimulus of scent paired with electrical shock when presented a choice between shock-associated and unrelated scents. The T-maze, a commonly used apparatus for olfactory conditioning assays, employs an elevator mechanism to transfer live flies from the shock-delivering training chamber to the scent selection point. This elevator mechanism is known to cause fly casualty. T-mazes are not commercially available and often difficult to reproduce. Other existing variations of olfactory conditioning apparatuses use …


Do Plants Have The Cognitive Complexity For Sentience?, Ricard V. Solé May 2023

Do Plants Have The Cognitive Complexity For Sentience?, Ricard V. Solé

Animal Sentience

Are plants sentient? Like other aspects of the cognitive potential of plants, this is a controversial issue, often driven by analogies and seldom supported on solid theoretical grounds. Sentience is understood in cognitive sciences as the capacity to feel. I suggest that because of plants’ evolved adaptations to morphological plasticity, sessile nature and ecological constraints, they are unlikely to have the requisite cognitive complexity for sentience.


Scientific Kenyon: Neuroscience Edition (Full Issue) May 2023

Scientific Kenyon: Neuroscience Edition (Full Issue)

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Letters From The Professors May 2023

Letters From The Professors

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


The Mind Behind The Buy: Exploring The World Of Neuromarketing, Gabriela Cruz Echeverria May 2023

The Mind Behind The Buy: Exploring The World Of Neuromarketing, Gabriela Cruz Echeverria

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


(Maybe Not) All Of The Lights, Babiker Higazi May 2023

(Maybe Not) All Of The Lights, Babiker Higazi

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Music Makes You Lose Control, Jac Cousineau May 2023

Music Makes You Lose Control, Jac Cousineau

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Did: Is It Trauma Or Just Fantasy?, Sebastian Geeze May 2023

Did: Is It Trauma Or Just Fantasy?, Sebastian Geeze

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Man's Best Friend Finally Talks Back: Bunny The "Talking" Dog, Maeve Griffin May 2023

Man's Best Friend Finally Talks Back: Bunny The "Talking" Dog, Maeve Griffin

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Smell: The Secret Super Sense, Jason Rehg May 2023

Smell: The Secret Super Sense, Jason Rehg

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Ptsd: The Way In & The Way Out, Carolyn Herbosa May 2023

Ptsd: The Way In & The Way Out, Carolyn Herbosa

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


A Brief History Of Psychedelia: From Ancient Rituals To Modern Medicine, Vikas Gudhe May 2023

A Brief History Of Psychedelia: From Ancient Rituals To Modern Medicine, Vikas Gudhe

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Ms And Epstein Barr, Sheetal Tallada May 2023

Ms And Epstein Barr, Sheetal Tallada

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Psychopaths: Who Are They, Really?, Stephanie Kaufman May 2023

Psychopaths: Who Are They, Really?, Stephanie Kaufman

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Your Brain On Plastics, Bennett Andrassy May 2023

Your Brain On Plastics, Bennett Andrassy

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Memory Comes In Waves: How Sharp-Wave Ripple Dynamics Are Disrupted By Sleep Deprivation, Maximos Mccune May 2023

Memory Comes In Waves: How Sharp-Wave Ripple Dynamics Are Disrupted By Sleep Deprivation, Maximos Mccune

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Neurodegeneration: You Have More Influence Than You Might Think, Ben Shropshire May 2023

Neurodegeneration: You Have More Influence Than You Might Think, Ben Shropshire

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Are Brain Games Really As They Seem?, Ania Axas May 2023

Are Brain Games Really As They Seem?, Ania Axas

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Building A Better Athlete: How Great Coaches Game The Nervous System For Optimal Performance, Mark Lang May 2023

Building A Better Athlete: How Great Coaches Game The Nervous System For Optimal Performance, Mark Lang

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


More Synapses, More Problems: The Underdiagnosis Of Depression In Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Daisy Delgado May 2023

More Synapses, More Problems: The Underdiagnosis Of Depression In Patients With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Daisy Delgado

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Dispelling Depression Dogma: Why Depression Is More Than A Chemical Imbalance, Jorge Roman May 2023

Dispelling Depression Dogma: Why Depression Is More Than A Chemical Imbalance, Jorge Roman

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


"Your Love Is My Drug" - Kesha, Olivia Smith May 2023

"Your Love Is My Drug" - Kesha, Olivia Smith

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Binaural Beats: Good Or Goop?, Sari Wagner May 2023

Binaural Beats: Good Or Goop?, Sari Wagner

Scientific Kenyon: The Neuroscience Edition

No abstract provided.


Sensing Is A Far Cry From Sentience, Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio Apr 2023

Sensing Is A Far Cry From Sentience, Antonio Damasio, Hanna Damasio

Animal Sentience

The hypothesis that plants might be sentient confuses the notion of sentience (or consciousness) with that of sensing. Sentience/consciousness implies feeling, experience, and subjectivity. Sensing does not. Plants can sense/detect and even respond appropriately in the absence of any sentience/consciousness.


Plant Sentience: The Burden Of Proof, Jon Mallatt, David G. Robinson, Michael R. Blatt, Andreas Draguhn, Lincoln Taiz Apr 2023

Plant Sentience: The Burden Of Proof, Jon Mallatt, David G. Robinson, Michael R. Blatt, Andreas Draguhn, Lincoln Taiz

Animal Sentience

Segundo-Ortin & Calvo’s (2023) target article takes a less speculative and more evidence-based approach to plant sentience than did previous works promoting that idea. However, it retains many of the idea’s longstanding difficulties such as starting from a false dichotomy (plants must be either hardwired or sentient), not accepting the full burden of proof for an extraordinary claim, confusingly redefining accepted cognitive terms, implying cell consciousness, not adopting the most parsimonious explanations for plant behaviors, and downplaying all the counterevidence. We advise rectifying these problems before plant sentience can become a full-fledged scientific domain.


Recent Advances In The Role Of Rehabilitative Therapies For Parkinson’S Disease: A Literature Review, Bazza Sohail, Muhammad Affan Iqbal, Aisha Razzaq, Abdul Wasay Nafe, Robina Malik Apr 2023

Recent Advances In The Role Of Rehabilitative Therapies For Parkinson’S Disease: A Literature Review, Bazza Sohail, Muhammad Affan Iqbal, Aisha Razzaq, Abdul Wasay Nafe, Robina Malik

Journal of Mind and Medical Sciences

Regardless of medical therapies and surgical interventions for Parkinson’s disease, patients develop progressive disability. The role of therapies is to maximize functional ability and minimize secondary complications through movement rehabilitation within a context of education and support for the whole person. The overall aim is to optimize independence, safety and wellbeing, thereby enhancing quality of life. Trials have shown that physiotherapy has short-term benefits in Parkinson’s disease. However, which physiotherapy intervention are most effective remains unclear. This article provides a guidance framework rather than a ’recipe’ for treatment. This review shows that a wide range of rehabilitative therapy interventions to …


Plants Lack The Functional Neurotransmitters And Signaling Pathways Required For Sentience In Animals, David G. Robinson, Michael R. Blatt, Andreas Draguhn, Lincoln Taiz, Jon Mallatt Apr 2023

Plants Lack The Functional Neurotransmitters And Signaling Pathways Required For Sentience In Animals, David G. Robinson, Michael R. Blatt, Andreas Draguhn, Lincoln Taiz, Jon Mallatt

Animal Sentience

We cannot agree with Segundo-Ortin and Calvo that plants are sentient organisms. We have critically examined several aspects of their target article, and find their claims are not supported by the published evidence. We address these claims in sections on whether plants have a ‘neurobiology’ analogous to that of animal nervous systems, including neurotransmitters and synaptic receptors that respond to anesthetics; and whether plant signaling resembles neural transmission. For the latter, we especially consider the unique way plants signal their responses to wounding. Although the plant vascular system has been compared to the animal nervous system, animal blood vessels would …


Consciousness, Evolution, And The Self-Organizing Brain, Karen Seymour Apr 2023

Consciousness, Evolution, And The Self-Organizing Brain, Karen Seymour

Journal of Conscious Evolution

While evolution is guided by natural selection, it is internally driven by self-organizing processes. The brain encompasses these complementary forces and dynamics of evolution in both its structure and dynamics by embodying a historical record of the factors that have shaped it throughout its evolutionary past, as well as by being shaped by selective parameters in real time. Self-organization is evident in not only the brain’s structure and form, but also in the processes that support consciousness. From the convergence of complex structure and the novelty-generating dynamics of chaos that both characterize the brain arises the experience of explicit consciousness, …


Questions About Sentience Are Not Scientific But Cultural, Yoram Gutfreund Apr 2023

Questions About Sentience Are Not Scientific But Cultural, Yoram Gutfreund

Animal Sentience

Abstract: The findings of complex cognitive-like behaviours in plants are surprising and exciting. However, they do not provide a scientific reason for ascribing sentience to plants. The target article, in trying to provide evidence for sentience in plants, exposes the weakness of the science of animal consciousness in general. In this commentary, I try to explain why the scientific method is incapable of resolving the question of which organisms or systems are sentient.


The Effects Of Joint Angle And Anchoring Scheme On Performance Fatigability And Neuromuscular Responses Following Isometric Forearm Flexion Tasks To Failure, Jocelyn E. Arnett, Robert W. Smith, Tyler J. Neltner, John Paul V. Anders, Dolores G. Ortega, Terry J. Housh, Richard J. Schmidt, Glen O. Johnson Mar 2023

The Effects Of Joint Angle And Anchoring Scheme On Performance Fatigability And Neuromuscular Responses Following Isometric Forearm Flexion Tasks To Failure, Jocelyn E. Arnett, Robert W. Smith, Tyler J. Neltner, John Paul V. Anders, Dolores G. Ortega, Terry J. Housh, Richard J. Schmidt, Glen O. Johnson

Journal for Sports Neuroscience

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of joint angle on MVIC and neuromuscular responses at task failure following sustained, isometric forearm flexion tasks anchored to a rating of perceived exertion (RPE) of 8 (RPE = 8) and anchored to the initial torque that corresponded to RPE = 8 (TRQ). Methods: Ten women (age: 21.0 ± 2.8 yrs; height: 168.5 ± 7.2 cm; body mass: 68.0 ± 7.2 kg) performed 2, 3 s MVICs at joint angles (JA) of 75°, 100°, and 125° (randomized order) before and after sustained, isometric forearm flexion tasks to failure at …