and when the streets are quiet, we'll walk out in the silence.
Am back from vacation. Am exhausted. Am thinking of laundry sitting all night in dryer getting wrinkly because I was too tired to deal with it. Am marathoning Big Bang Theory just because, and I need good icons for it, because now I have more icon space.
Am really glad it’s Friday and I can maybe sleep all weekend. Not really. But it’s a nice thought.
As you know, I’m editing for a medical journal these days, so I’m using my office time and work resources responsibly by giggling over letters to the editor that use phrases like OVER TEN THOUSAND HUMAN SKELETONS, as well as using PubMed's Citation Matcher from the NIH library to look up articles Alex Drake would have been searching to use as references for any articles she might write on Sam Tyler’s case. I’ve determined the best journal to attempt to publish such a report in would be Neurocase: case studies in neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioural neurology, since it features individual case studies and Alex would have a difficult time putting together a cohort of patients and healthy controls to more specifically examine the occurrence of going back in time when hit by a car.
Or getting such a study approved of by local ethics committees and the Declaration of Helsinki. Still, I’d like to see that table of values.
Abstracts like this are fun:
Neurocase. 2010 Apr 15:1-10. [Epub ahead of print]
Bilateral hippocampal lesion and a selective impairment of the ability for mental time travel.
Andelman F, Hoofien D, Goldberg I, Aizenstein O, Neufeld MY.
Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Abstract
Mental time travel allows individuals to mentally project themselves backwards and forwards in subjective time. This case report describes a young woman suddenly rendered amnesic as a result of bilateral hippocampal damage following an epileptic seizure and brain anoxia. Her neuropsychological profile was characterized by a high-average general level of cognitive functioning, selective deficit in episodic memory of past events and a significant difficulty to envisage her personal future. This case provides clinical support for the concept of mental time travel with its retrospective and prospective components and for the hippocampus being its critical neural substrate.
I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to study all this stuff on subjective time, traumatic brain injury, psychosis and depression in the recovery from traumatic brain injury, etc., and then get shot in the head and wind up right in the middle of it without any of your notes. I mean, damn, I’d be hysteric, trying to recompile everything.
Okay, back to work.
PS it is totally not crazy to go beyond mere fanfic and do actual research for papers by fictional characters right? RIGHT! I would also read Sheldon Cooper’s publications, though I suspect I would like Leonard’s more. And Leslie Winkler’s better than both of them. (I took her side in the string-theory debate when she broke up with Leonard.)
Am really glad it’s Friday and I can maybe sleep all weekend. Not really. But it’s a nice thought.
As you know, I’m editing for a medical journal these days, so I’m using my office time and work resources responsibly by giggling over letters to the editor that use phrases like OVER TEN THOUSAND HUMAN SKELETONS, as well as using PubMed's Citation Matcher from the NIH library to look up articles Alex Drake would have been searching to use as references for any articles she might write on Sam Tyler’s case. I’ve determined the best journal to attempt to publish such a report in would be Neurocase: case studies in neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry, and behavioural neurology, since it features individual case studies and Alex would have a difficult time putting together a cohort of patients and healthy controls to more specifically examine the occurrence of going back in time when hit by a car.
Or getting such a study approved of by local ethics committees and the Declaration of Helsinki. Still, I’d like to see that table of values.
Abstracts like this are fun:
Neurocase. 2010 Apr 15:1-10. [Epub ahead of print]
Bilateral hippocampal lesion and a selective impairment of the ability for mental time travel.
Andelman F, Hoofien D, Goldberg I, Aizenstein O, Neufeld MY.
Functional Neurosurgery Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Abstract
Mental time travel allows individuals to mentally project themselves backwards and forwards in subjective time. This case report describes a young woman suddenly rendered amnesic as a result of bilateral hippocampal damage following an epileptic seizure and brain anoxia. Her neuropsychological profile was characterized by a high-average general level of cognitive functioning, selective deficit in episodic memory of past events and a significant difficulty to envisage her personal future. This case provides clinical support for the concept of mental time travel with its retrospective and prospective components and for the hippocampus being its critical neural substrate.
I can’t imagine how frustrating it would be to study all this stuff on subjective time, traumatic brain injury, psychosis and depression in the recovery from traumatic brain injury, etc., and then get shot in the head and wind up right in the middle of it without any of your notes. I mean, damn, I’d be hysteric, trying to recompile everything.
Okay, back to work.
PS it is totally not crazy to go beyond mere fanfic and do actual research for papers by fictional characters right? RIGHT! I would also read Sheldon Cooper’s publications, though I suspect I would like Leonard’s more. And Leslie Winkler’s better than both of them. (I took her side in the string-theory debate when she broke up with Leonard.)