Beautiful piece from one of the greatest thinkers on our explicit role in our understanding of the universe.
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.
#neuroscience
www.quantamagazine.org/once-thought...
Relevant to all fields of Neurology (and Medicine, as Dr. Okun points out), including recovery from acute brain injury.
Qin et al: Clinical Features and Outcomes in Adult Patients with Autoimmune Encephalitis Requiring Intensive Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Link: link.springer.com/ar...
@neurocritical #neurocritcare
"Awe-scillations": EEG spectral and complexity representations of awe https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689403v1
Heard at #SfN25 from @earlkmiller.bsky.social: Cognition and consciousness emerge from the dynamic organization of the cortex produced by traveling brain waves performing analog computations. picower.mit.edu/news/brain-w... #neuroscience #consciousness #cognition @mitbcs.bsky.social
The Erosion of Harm Reduction | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....