Scientific Sense ®

A rhythmic theory of attention, A brief comparative review of primate posterior parietal cortex: A novel hypothesis on the human toolmaker, Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions, and Bringing Kids into the Scientific Review Process.   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sabine Kastner is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The goal...

Why the histrionic personality disorder should not be in the DSM: A new taxonomic and moral analysis Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation...

Planetary Defense: Discovery and characterization of Near-Earth objects and possibilities to protect the Earth against the cosmic collisions. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Dr. Peter Vereš is a research scientist at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at the Minor Planet Center (MPC). MPC is the official worldwide organization in charge of collecting observational data of minor planets...

Radiomics in Oncology, Theranostics in Nuclear Medicine and the rise of AI in the field. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel Appelbaum who  Professor of Radiology and the Director, of the Nuclear Medicine and PET Imaging at the University of Chicago.

FOOD WITHOUT FEAR: Identify, Prevent, and Treat Food Allergies, Intolerances, and Sensitivities   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Ruchi Gupta is Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on food allergies

From Matter to Minds : A Physics Perspective on How Nervous Systems Produce Behavior   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Henry Greenside is Professor of Physics and Neurobiology at Duke University.  His research group study problems in theoretical neurobiology.

The primacy of behavioral research for understanding the brain, Human orbitofrontal cortex represents a cognitive map of state space, A model of mood as integrated advantage, and The case against economic values in the orbitofrontal cortex (or anywhere else in the brain)   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Yael Niv is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton University. The...

Balancing Flexibility and Interference in Working Memory, Shared mechanisms underlie the control of working memory and attention, Rotational dynamics reduce interference between sensory and memory representations, and Toward a neurobiology of internal selective attention Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Timothy Buschman is Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Princeton Univ...

Intracortical microstimulation of human somatosensory cortex and Chronic Use of a Sensitized Bionic Hand Does Not Remap the Sense of Touch. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Sliman Bensmaia is Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on how nervous systems give rise to flexible, intelligent behavior, especially sensory processing, that is...

Demand and capacity imbalance for urologists as population ages, The disparity in care for rural populations, Changing ideas in cancer, and the need for more female participation in urology. Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Piyush Agarwal is Professor of Surgery and Urology and Director, Bladder Cancer Program at the University of Chicago. His clinical and laboratory research focuses on bla...

Comprehensive transcriptome analysis of cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) across multiple species and genotypes, Common transcriptome, plasma molecules, and imaging signatures in the aging brain and a Mendelian neurovascular disease, cerebral cavernous malformation, and A Roadmap for Developing Plasma Diagnostic and Prognostic Biomarkers of Cerebral Cavernous Angioma With Symptomatic Hemorrhag...

Fully Coherent X-Ray Pulses from a Regenerative-Amplifier Free-Electron Laser and Refractive Guide Switching a Regenerative Amplifier Free-Electron Laser for High Peak and Average Power Hard X Rays   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Zhirong Huang is Professor of Photon Sciences, Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Lab. His research foc...

A Dynamical Role for Acetylcholine in Synaptic Renormalization, Resonance with subthreshold oscillatory drive organizes activity and optimizes learning in neural network, and Acetylcholine Mediates Dynamic Switching Between Information Coding Schemes in Neuronal Networks   Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Michal Zochowski is Professor of Physics and Biophysics at the University of Mich...

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Daniel McKinsey is Professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on direct searches for dark matter interactions, and he serves as Co-Spokesperson of the LUX experiment. He also collaborates on the LZ experiment and is doing R&D on superfluid helium for low-mass dark matter detection.

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Janet Currie is Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton's Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research

Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Robert Lustig who is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, and the Director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Program at UCSF. His most recent book is Metabolical – The Lure and Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition and Modern Medicine.

Vera Rubin observatory, Probing dark energy and dark matter, Taking an inventory of the Solar System, Exploring the transient optical sky, and Mapping the Milky Way. Prof. Steven Kahn is professor of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Physical Society.

Mystical anarchism, Notes on Suicide, and What We Think About When We Think About Football.   Prof. Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. His work engages in many areas: continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, psychoanalysis, ethics, and political theory, among others.

Using Mitochondria heat production for possible weight loss   Prof. Yuriy Kirichok is Professor of Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco. His lab studies Mitochondria, the powerhouse of the Cell.

A Review of Multiple Sclerosis and late-onset Dementia as Infectious Syndromes   Prof. Brian Balin is Professor of Neuroscience and Neuropathology at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.  Prof. Charles Stratton is Associate Professor of Pathology, Microbiology, Immunology and medicine at Vanderbilt University.   Ms. Nikki Schultek, who is the founder of the intracell Resear...

The Geography of Value Creation    Over the last twenty years, the stock market indicates that value creation has become heavily concentrated in a few headquarter cities. At the same time, firms in value-creating cities have experienced declines in their profitability, due to large increases in wages and rents. Our findings thus highlight the difference between flow-based (e.g., operatin...

Dark matter Physics   Prof. Thomas Shutt is professor of particle physics and astrophysics at Stanford University. One of his recent areas of focus is the detection of dark matter.

Cognitive Design for Artificial Mind.   Prof. Antonio Lieto is Asst. Professor of Computer Science at the University of Turin. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Interaction and Computational Cognitive Science.

Rethinking the maturity of artificial intelligence in safety-critical settings, Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Meaningful human control or meaningful human certification?, and Regulating Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives. Prof. Missy Cummings who is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, and the director of the Humans and Autonomy...

String theory, black holes, the information paradox and quantum computing   Prof. Emil Martinec is Professor of Physics at the Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College of the University of Chicago. His research focuses on string theory and particle physics.