From ilsa.bartlett from gmail.com Thu Mar 5 02:09:40 2009 From: ilsa.bartlett from gmail.com (ilsa bartlett) Date: Thu Mar 5 12:19:39 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] "higher prenatal testosterone in women" and homosexuality Message-ID: <49af7ac0.1e018e0a.1142.ffffa616@mx.google.com> A friend, here in Berkeley is writing a book in concert with two Tibetan Lamas about in-vitro or prenatal brain biology. She is Anne Madian Brown and has just completed a book on birthing practices in traditional Tibetan families. Thank you for any assistance to her effort, with gratitude, Ilsa Bartlett Ilsa Bartlett Institute for Rewiring the System 2951 Derby Street Berkeley CA 94705 510-848-1007 From connelly.bill from gmail.com Mon Mar 9 00:43:45 2009 From: connelly.bill from gmail.com (Bill) Date: Mon Mar 9 19:20:35 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Kolmogorov-Smirnov Tests, why? Message-ID: Using the K-S test for hypothesis testing of spontaneous or minuature synaptic events has always confused me. 1) Why is it so widely used? It was my understanding that the KS test was actually invalid unless one of the distributions was completely known. Does anyone know who set this trend? 2) Does anyone know how to do power calculations on KS tests? Several times I have run KS tests, comparing two control sections of data. So long as you get the number of events high enough (~200-500), you can get completely functionally unimportant differences to be statistically very significant (0.1% difference in frequency = P<0.0001) 3) Despite these qualms, I would really like to institute the KS test in a script I am writing. Has any one attempted anything similar, or have some K-S test psuedocode, or anything like that? Thanks From kedar from kedarghimire.com Wed Mar 11 16:45:19 2009 From: kedar from kedarghimire.com (kedar ghimire) Date: Thu Mar 12 11:28:49 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] Nature paper Message-ID: <22465260.post@talk.nabble.com> Hi all, Nature Letters- Specific synapses develop preferentially among sister ....in the neocortex- Yu et al. Can somebody explain me what a "radial clone" is? I thought functional columns mean |||||| but fig 1 shows neurons one over another vertically. I thought radial means side by side horizontal columns. Sorry for my ignorance cos i am new to the field. thanks Kedar Ghimire -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Nature-paper-tp22465260p22465260.html Sent from the Bio.net - Neur-sci mailing list archive at Nabble.com. From brendonfish from gmail.com Wed Mar 11 20:30:11 2009 From: brendonfish from gmail.com (raymond) Date: Thu Mar 12 11:28:58 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] PhD in Brain Science, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica(Taipei) --Extensive experience with Flex 3 needed Message-ID: Research team at the Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica seeks applicants for graduate research assistantship. Research opportunities are in several different areas of brain science. Research will involve EEG/MEG data processing and source localization, structure images, functional MRI and 4D PET image analyses. Ideal candidates will need a strong background in computer science and be really interested in working with and studying in brain science. Applicants must have a MS degree in computer sciences, applied mathematics or related areas. As far as programming skills are concerned, both of the followings are needed: ? ? ?-Extensive experience with Flex 3 and ActionScript 3 ? ? ?-Experience designing modular, object-oriented Flex 3 ? ? ? applications ? ? ?-Familiar with Flex component life cycle (extending and creating custom components), styling and skinning ? ? ?-Please provide past flex works and source code for review Research assistantships include a monthly stipend, health benefits, scientific supervisor and tuition remission. Please contact Dr. Arthur Tsai at arthur@stat.sinica.edu.tw From jmhanse from gmail.com Thu Mar 12 11:42:52 2009 From: jmhanse from gmail.com (H.m.Hanse) Date: Thu Mar 12 12:40:51 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] optic neuritis and blurred vision Message-ID: a blurred or froggy vision, For medical neurological response to this subject see: http://www.hmhanse.nl From harry.erwin from sunderland.ac.uk Wed Mar 18 11:33:14 2009 From: harry.erwin from sunderland.ac.uk (harry.erwin@sunderland.ac.uk) Date: Wed Mar 18 12:05:31 2009 Subject: [Neuroscience] MiCRAM Wiki Message-ID: We have rehosted the MiCRAM wiki on mediawiki. This can be found at . Please note that browsing may be anonymous but posting requires an account. Contact me at harry.erwin(at)sunderland.ac.uk if you want posting rights.