What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system.
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Human cortical dynamics of auditory word form encoding
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Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans | PLOS Biology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Beautiful piece from one of the greatest thinkers on our explicit role in our understanding of the universe.
The Erosion of Harm Reduction | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Qin et al: Clinical Features and Outcomes in Adult Patients with Autoimmune Encephalitis Requiring Intensive Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study
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@neurocritical #neurocritcare
Zhang, Leonard, et al. use high-density direct human brain recordings to reveal how
the superior temporal gyrus (STG) detects word boundaries in natural speech and encodes
whole auditory word forms. N...
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Hemispherotomy is a neurosurgical procedure for treating refractory epilepsy by disconnecting a significant portion of the cortex. This study shows that the isolated cortex exhibits EEG patterns resem...
"Awe-scillations": EEG spectral and complexity representations of awe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689403v1
Relevant to all fields of Neurology (and Medicine, as Dr. Okun points out), including recovery from acute brain injury.
The brain is more than spiking neurons. Astrocytes, a large fraction of cells, propagate electrical influences without spiking. And cortical neurons spike only intermittently. Electrical signals are continuous and across all cells.
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