{"id":1635,"date":"2008-02-05T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T21:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/downsides-of-neuroscience-papers-pt-2\/"},"modified":"2008-02-06T00:46:25","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T23:46:25","slug":"downsides-of-neuroscience-papers-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/downsides-of-neuroscience-papers-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Downsides of neuroscience papers, pt. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/15\/the-problem-with-neuroscience-paper-writing-at-home\/\">Further reason<\/a> why reading up reference material for your own neuroscience paper is a total bummer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] After neuronal recording was completed, monkey RO was anesthetized with an overdose of Nembutal (90 mg\/kg, i.m.) and transcardially perfused with 10 % formaldehyde in 0.9 % NaCl. The brain was removed and consecutive, 50 \u00b5m-thick, frozen sections were cut parallel to the recording electrode penetrations in the frontal plane.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ooh, my, that&#8217;s interesting&#8230; and what fascinating data did we get from those frozen sections of the frontal pl&#8230; Hey! Wait a minute&#8230; You did <em>what<\/em> to monkey RO?! I was just getting to <em>know<\/em> monkey RO! Damn you people. He was just an innocent Japanese monkey (<i>Macaca fuscata<\/i>, male, 8.9 kg): young and promising, with still so much to give!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh well, I guess on the upside, we now know that corticostriatal neurons show distinct action-value-related firing patterns when you let monkeys play <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pong\">Pong<\/a>&#8230; You shall not have died in vain (and your brain frozen and sliced to pieces while your heart was being pumped full of embalming fluid), little monkey RO!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PS:<\/strong> For those wondering: as is commonly the case in such research papers, &#8220;anesthetized&#8221; is the mother of all euphemisms for &#8220;killed the death out of it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PPS:<\/strong> I guess this shall simultaneously address a question on <s>everybody&#8217;s<\/s><i>three people&#8217;s (family and cat included)<\/i> mind: &#8220;What is Dave up to and why don&#8217;t we see much of him here lately&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further reason why reading up reference material for your own neuroscience paper is a total bummer: [&#8230;] After neuronal recording was completed, monkey RO was anesthetized with an overdose of Nembutal (90 mg\/kg, i.m.) and transcardially perfused with 10 % formaldehyde in 0.9 % NaCl. The brain was removed and consecutive, 50 \u00b5m-thick, frozen sections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}