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This Is The Perfectly Evolved Human

What if our bodies kept evolving? And are there body parts that will disappear one day?
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Our backs hurt, ankles break and feet are busted! Not to mention having a baby is dangerous and our eyes are built backwards. There is a lot that doesn’t work in our bodies, so today we are going to explain the perfectly evolved human. Evolutionary biologists have been battling this scenario for years so we explain it all. Including the need for ostrich feet, bipedal bodies, bilateral symmetry, rewiring neurons in the eye and having dog ears! Let us know if you would want this body!?

References:
Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind — by Peter Godfrey Smith.
https://leakeyfoundation.org/2015why-walk-on-two-legs/#:~:te…duced%20in, stable%2C%20rigid%20base%20for%20propulsion.
https://www.earthdate.org/node/131
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30772945/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31163155/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30482358/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29787621/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28406563/

Dr. David Glanzman Ph.D. — UCLA — Studying Cell-Intrinsic Learning And Memory Storage Dynamics

Cell-Intrinsic Learning And Memory Storage Dynamics — Dr. David Glanzman Ph.D., Professor, in the Department Integrative Biology and Physiology, at UCLA College of the Life Sciences.

Dr. David Glanzman is Professor, in the Department Integrative Biology and Physiology, at UCLA College of the Life Sciences, Professor in the Department of Neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine, and Member, Brain Research Institute.

Dr. Glanzman has a B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University Bloomington and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University.

Dr. Glanzman is interested in the cell biology of learning and memory in simple organisms.

In Dr. Glanzman’s lab research they use two animals, the marine snail Aplysia californica, and the zebrafish (Danio rerio).

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Genes in The Placenta Appear to Determine a Baby’s Risk of Developing Schizophrenia

After tracing the origins of schizophrenia to genes expressed in the placenta while in utero, scientists have now zeroed in on the combination of risk factors that could predict which infants are at greatest risk of developing the condition later in life.

The findings reinforce an emerging picture of schizophrenia as a genetic disorder, with a fate determined by complications that can arise during pregnancy.

Researchers from the Lieber Institute for Brain Development at Johns Hopkins University and the University of North Carolina in the US analysed the relationship between key genes and cognitive development in the first few years after birth.

Soft subdermal implant capable of wireless battery charging and programmable controls for applications in optogenetics

Although wireless optogenetic technologies enable brain circuit investigation in freely moving animals, existing devices have limited their full potential, requiring special power setups. Here, the authors report fully implantable optogenetic systems that allow intervention-free wireless charging and controls for operation in any environment.

Central Regulation of Branched-Chain Amino Acids Is Mediated by AgRP Neurons

Circulating branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) are elevated in obesity and diabetes, and recent studies support a causal role for BCAAs in insulin resistance and defective glycemic control. The physiological mechanisms underlying BCAA regulation are poorly understood. Here we show that insulin signaling in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) of rats is mandatory for lowering plasma BCAAs, most probably by inducing hepatic BCAA catabolism. Insulin receptor deletion only in agouti-related protein (AgRP)–expressing neurons (AgRP neurons) in the MBH impaired hepatic BCAA breakdown and suppression of plasma BCAAs during hyperinsulinemic clamps in mice. In support of this, chemogenetic stimulation of AgRP neurons in the absence of food significantly raised plasma BCAAs and impaired hepatic BCAA degradation.

Seeking the “Beauty Center” in the Brain: A Meta-Analysis of fMRI Studies of Beautiful Human Faces and Visual Art

During the past two decades, cognitive neuroscientists have sought to elucidate the common neural basis of the experience of beauty. Still, empirical evidence for such common neural basis of different forms of beauty is not conclusive. To address this question, we performed an activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta-analysis on the existing neuroimaging studies of beauty appreciation of faces and visual art by nonexpert adults (49 studies, 982 participants, meta-data are available at https://osf.io/s9xds/). We observed that perceiving these two forms of beauty activated distinct brain regions: While the beauty of faces convergently activated the left ventral striatum, the beauty of visual art convergently activated the anterior medial prefrontal cortex (aMPFC). However, a conjunction analysis failed to reveal any common brain regions for the beauty of visual art and faces.

Combining convolutional neural network with computational neuroscience to simulate cochlear mechanics

A trio of researchers at Ghent University has combined a convolutional neural network with computational neuroscience to create a model that simulates human cochlear mechanics. In their paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Deepak Baby, Arthur Van Den Broucke and Sarah Verhulst describe how they built their model and the ways they believe it can be used.