Saturday 22 February 2014

Migrating to Twitter

I am stopping my blog posting and will migrate to Twitter via @BS_Wong

I will also move all the earlier content to twitter in the coming months and they will be grouped via the following hashtag. Due to word limit, old blog content will be truncated when necessary.

#LSM4213
#GSN6880
#Teach
#Res

Thursday 20 February 2014

A new raising start in AD research?

http://www.alzforum.org/news/research-news/trem2-variant-doubles-risk-als

Will TREM2 be as important as ApoE4 in AD pathology?

A role for the neglected inter-neurons - preventing fear

A beautiful start to deciphering the function of interneurons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26249509

Dog can also go under PET for research

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26276660

Wednesday 12 February 2014

Really "personal" medicine

Will you agree to such "personal" medical monitoring?

http://www.nature.com/news/medicine-gets-up-close-and-personal-1.14702

handy experiment kits for neuroscience students

very neat kit for neuroscience - low cost and fascinating. maybe we should introduce this to NUS.

http://blog.backyardbrains.com/2014/02/backyard-brains-runs-a-3-day-workshop-for-high-school-teachers-backyard-brains-tiene-un-gran-taller-para-docentes-de-colegio/

Wednesday 5 February 2014

Scarcity and Plentiful - A neurobehavioral perspective

Discussed the following papers during Neuroethics Lecture 3. Examining the neurobehavioral during scarcity and plentiful.


New ways to setup a research lab

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303743604579354831111502624?mod=WSJ_hp_RightTopStories

Monday 3 February 2014

Help to cure cancer by playing game

research does not need to confine in the lab. crowd-sourcing help to accelerate research. good initiative from cancer research uk.

play this space game in your iphone, ipad and android.

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/support-us/genes-in-space

Monday 27 January 2014

Experimental Design - Preclinical

Time to design preclinical experiment as clinical research.

http://www.alzforum.org/news/community-news/national-institutes-health-tackles-irreproducibility-problem

Monday 20 January 2014

Economic Well-Being?

Is this price worth paying for the economic well-being and progression? This is the children, the future of humans.

The story behind China's economic progress - not just those factories, iphones, etc. The social truth.

Tuesday 14 January 2014

GSN6880 Neuroethics - cognitive enhancement drugs

two readings from Dr. Christopher Chen for his upcoming lecture.

http://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2013/may/31/is-modafinil-safe-in-long-term
http://www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/eat-sleep-work-repeat/14/01/2014