It's been a while since I've posted something substantial. My apologies to all 20 followers of TQLC. Academia and clinical cases have been taking up most of my time. However, some exciting news! My paper on variability of respiration during sleep in traumatic brain injury (TBI) has recently been accepted into Neurorehabilitation.  In the paper my colleagues...

Finally got to uploading the review paper Robert Goder and I had written not too long ago on sleep and memory. You can download it at http://tinyurl.com/c2xd35n. Essentially, we proposed that abnormal NREM sleep processes (i.e. reduced slow-wave sleep and sleep spindles) contributed to declarative memory impairment and sleep disruption in certain neuropsychiatric...

I got a chance to sit down and read Kohl et al.’s recently published Nature Neuroscience paper titled “Hemisphere-specific optogenetic stimulation reveals left-right asymmetry of hippocampal plasticity”. This paper contributes to our advancing knowledge of the asymmetrical brain and further elucidates the true complexity of the hippocampus, a sea horse...

So…after 4 months of being MIA I’ve finally emerged from the deep, dark, and lonely cave of academia to give a brief update on what I’ve been doing all this time. When I wasn’t furiously working on my dissertation related to working memory and aging, I was making final revisions to a theoretical review paper on sleep and memory. I’m happy to announce...

What did Socrates, Plato, Hercules, and Ajax have in common? Other than greatness, they were also epileptics according to the 17th century French physician, Jean Taxil. An epileptic seizure consists of abnormal excessive or synchronous neuronal activity in the brain which can lead to convulsions, loss of awareness, full body slump, or even the experience...

It’s not difficult to readily imagine the rebellious angst ridden teenager or the wise old man of very few words. McCrae, et al.’s 1999 research findings seem to have validated these prototypical depictions. They found that across various cultures (Germany, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, and South Korea) there were higher levels of neuroticism in young adults...