Time for a little @joycecaroloates.bsky.social reading!
💬 Perspective: Women with #AlzheimerDisease display greater tau pathology but outperform men in memory and function until a later, more rapid decline, suggesting female-specific clinical resilience to neuropathologic burden.
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Happy Birthday, @joycecaroloates.bsky.social !!!
for Mother's Day reposting a very old snapshot with my dear mother Carolina Oates & a black kitten; looks as if I am fretting, as usual; background, our old farmhouse in Millersport, NY, just south of Tonawanda Creek on Transit Road.
one will likely not be mobbed or mugged here but one will likely not feel a quickening of the heart, a jab of adrenaline.
Twitter may be a "cesspool"-- at least in some quarters--but I think of it as lively like the old Madison Square Garden: raucous, unpredictable, obnoxious, good fun, surprises.
what an incredible achievement and resource for retina researchers. We use it, we love it — it is a game changer for all of us who love retinal circuits. Kudos.
"The Researcher Who Didn't Want to Know"
#Huntington #Wexler
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/s...
Med News: A fentanyl vaccine is now in human trials.
If proven safe and effective, it would be the first proactive pharmaceutical to prevent overdose and support addiction treatment.
Learn more about the research and its public health potential:
1/ We work hard to factor "noise" out of behavior. But the brain doesn't.
Strip away noise and you may miss what the brain evolved to do
I wanted to share this pre-Bluesky paper where we found premotor (M2) corticostriatal circuits encode a broad history of behavior, beyond just action + reward 👇