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Chronic depression and the serotonin hypothesis: a nice popscience article (www.quantamagazine.org)
submitted 1 year ago by thalamus@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world
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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.

FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] thalamus@lemmy.world 14 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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TIL before CT and MRI’s were available, doctors used to replace the fluid in and around the brain with air to do imaging with X-rays. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 1 year ago by thalamus@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world
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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

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