3 days agoIn Praise of HumansI recognize and ‘feel’ how limited and small I am. But I embrace it. No matter how much I attempt to expand my mind through ectopic extensions of my brain — different apps and digital tools increasingly supplemented by machine learning and AI — at best I can only grasp…Creative Writing1 min readCreative Writing1 min read
Mar 22The ChatGPT Debate: Are We Intelligent Enough To Understand ‘Intelligence’In the 2016 science fiction drama Arrival about first contact with aliens, the movie’s two protagonists, a linguist and a physicist, meet in a military helicopter on their way to attempt to decipher and understand why the aliens came to earth and what they want. The physicist, Ian Donnelly, introduces…Chatgpt14 min readChatgpt14 min read
Jan 5Why Some Individuals Can’t ‘See’ Anything When They Close Their EyesAs you read this, take a quick look around and pick an object that catches your eye. Give it a good look. Stare at it for a while. Now close your eyes. Do you still see it? Can you picture it in your mind? How does it look? Is it…Neuroscience5 min readNeuroscience5 min read
Published in BeingWell·Dec 30, 2022Personalized Neuroscience: Are Human-Derived Brain Organoids The Answer?Imagine a futuristic society capable of curing devastating neurological disorders by recreating the brains’ of patients in a dish. Doing so allows them to tailor drug cocktails and therapeutic strategies to the specifics of each individual. Personalized neuroscience providing customized treatments. Except it is not a futuristic society. It sounds…Neuroscience5 min readNeuroscience5 min read
Nov 24, 2022‘Thinkers And Innovators’: How Radicle Science Is Pioneering Proof-As-A-Service For Clinical TrialsPelin Wood Thorogood is a tech executive turned impact entrepreneur who co-founded Radicle Science in 2018, an AI-driven health technology benefit corporation (B-corp). She also serves as Executive Chair for Radicle Science. Ms. Thorogood was previously Chief Marketing Officer of WebSideStory, which was acquired by Adobe/Omniture in 2008, and CEO…Business9 min readBusiness9 min read
Aug 26, 2022What Exactly Are All Those Electrical Impulses In Your Brain? — Part IIThis is the second in a series of articles explaining — using plain English — what exactly are the electrical impulses in your brain responsible for how it learns, represents, and processes information. In the first article we introduced the anatomy of a neuron brain cell, some important high level…Science4 min readScience4 min read
Aug 12, 2022What Exactly Are All Those Electrical Impulses In Your Brain?As you read these words, billions upon billions of electrical impulses are flying through your brain. In a complex symphony of activity all those impulses are somehow encoding your thoughts, feelings, and understanding. There are about 85 billion neurons in a typical adult human brain, and about ten quadrillion connections…Neuroscience6 min readNeuroscience6 min read
Apr 14, 2022Comparing the Dynamics of Neural Networks using Edge-Ordered Multi-Directed GraphletsThe integration and propagation of information in the brain depend on the interplay between structural and dynamical properties across many scales of organization. This interplay happens in molecular and diffusion interactions in neurons and other neural cells, and at physiological scales in individual cells, networks of cells, and eventually…Mathematics6 min readMathematics6 min read
Feb 7, 2022How ‘Dormant’ Cells In The Aging Brain Contribute To Cognitive DeclineCognitive decline and forgetting things as we get older is almost a right of passage. All those ‘senior moments’ seem like an unavoidable part of life. Of course, as with most things, it is not binary. There exists a broad continuum that affects and impacts different individuals very differently, shaped…Neuroscience5 min readNeuroscience5 min read
Jan 28, 2022UCSF Aims To Re-Think Neuroscience Research With Its New BuildingModern day science tends to be highly interdisciplinary. It increasingly requires different technical topics, skills, and expertise to come together to solve complex and challenging problems and questions. The image of the isolated scientist working alone in their lab for periods on end, emerging only to share a great discovery…Forbes8 min readForbes8 min read
