CT-Afferents, Emotions, and Autism

Statement of Purpose I have only a rudimentary knowledge of neuroscience, I would equate myself to a sophomore (2nd year) undergraduate in the subject. That being said, I was sitting in a lecture today and I noticed something I thought was interesting and decided to research it the rest of the day. As it turns […]

BasicBookReader – Alpha Version 0.2 Released!

You may ask, what happened to Alpha version 0.1? Well, version 0.1 was more or less prior to  statistics being added, now we have an in-app statistics display (Woot!). Full Description and Webpage Github Repository OSX Download: BBR (.zip) There are many interesting statistics I have added and there will be more improvements coming soon. I […]

Are Decisions Governed by “Free Will” or Algorithms

My girlfriend (Jenny) was posed the following question in her upper level Neuroscience course (paraphrased): Do humans have “free will” or are their actions predetermined by a system of algorithms encoded in their brain? Her response is the following: Ultimately, I believe that humans are prisoners to algorithmic systems that determine our choices – however, […]