[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It’s a transverse section so it’s not really ‘top down’ or ‘bottom up’. It’s a thin slice where the densities of the tissue is calculated by sending through X-rays from around the body and measuring how much gets trough from each angle and then letting a computer do some fancy math.

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

TBF this doesn’t have anything to do with sexism, it’s just general incompetence. Listening to the lungs with a stethoscope would have been enough to notice that something was very wrong.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2186597

A very readable article about chronic depression and the serotonin hypothesis.

Psychiatry seems like a very interesting field for neuroscience since there's not really any psychiatric disease that is understood today. Lots of room for progress I guess.

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

White bread, cheese (at least not the one on burgers) and red meat aren’t exactly known as healthy foods. Definitely not in the proportions of a burger. Even more definitely not when you boil the meat in oil (often together with the onions).

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with eugenics. Screening for genetic diseases before birth is eugenics, selecting the best embryos for ivf is eugenics. Believing that people with severe genetic disabilities should be counseled before conceiving is eugenics as well.

The issue is the way it's done and the reason for it.

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Hi everyone!

I’ve set up this community for anyone who’s interested in neuroscience.

Anyone is welcome: students, researchers, enthousiasts, …

!neuro@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/neuro

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For anyone specifically interested in neuroscience: we’re trying to create a neuroscience community over at: !neuro@lemmy.world

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not sure to be honest but i’m guessing that enough would be left and that the air would resorb and new CSF would be made in the ventricles.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1779005

Apparently this was done because air captures less X-rays than CSF and thus creates more contrast with brain tissue compared to the cerebrospinal fluid.

Unfortunately this was pretty painful and uncomfortable.

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Weird, it works for me. Maybe this link works: https://lemmy.world/c/neuro

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For anyone interested in neuroscience: we’re trying to create a neuroscience community over at: !neuro@lemmy.world

[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Eyes in general are crazy, the last common ancestor between octopuses and humans didn’t even have eyes so both types of eyes developed independently.

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