472 posts 4/13/2008 11:36 pm
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Felis catus
The prefrontal cortex is a late-developing part of the brain concerned with moral sensibility and other capabilities essential to social functioning. (It is tiny in the cat.)
Kramer, Against Depression
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Anslatetra istha, Iendfra inderfa -- Elvish for Translate this, friend finder
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2234 posts 4/15/2008 11:54 am |
It's probably why I like cats so much.
Cheers! 
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13333 posts 4/14/2008 9:56 am |
I wonder now if it's also affected in autistics. Most likely, since their social functions also highly impaired, but I don't really know if a definitive study has been made in that area.
I'm dyslexic. I scream Ho Dog instead of Oh God in the throes of passion.
SeekingGigi replies on 4/14/2008 11:02 am:
The depression research is based on MRI computer imaging and that approach would almost certainly have been tried on autism I would think. But I have heard nothing about it. Wouldn't be helpful right away anyway, except in the basic science of what's malfunctioning -- not what causes it and how to fix it.
Brain tissue on the microscopic scale in which brain cell anatomy can be visualized, is very different between persons with and without epilepsy, Parkinson's, and depression and worse the worse these are. There aren't as many brain cells, and the insulation/support cells are fewer, and these are also abnormal as if to compensate.
Some drugs are known to help out, but just how ranges from puzzling to obscure to mysterious. Researchers blunder into the discovery that a drug works and make up a science story to cover it afterwards. But over time as these stories accumulate and become elaborate enough and internally logically consistent enough, predictions about what ought to work can be made. |
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4/14/2008 5:59 am
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what differences are there between the functions of a male's prefrontal cortex and those of a female's?
SeekingGigi replies on 4/14/2008 9:06 am:
Good question, Agnes.
The index in the book by Kramer doesn't mention sex differences, or either I haven't read far enough to really know. A quick google makes me think it isn't dramatic or hasn't been studied yet. I saw a paper that showed differences in auditory cortex however. There are almost always sex differences in everything -- which way and what kind always open to question, with many surprises. More and more is being learned about severe cortical dysfunction, IE in Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. There becomes fewer brain cells and/or support cells.
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4/14/2008 2:31 am
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I always knew cats were basically antisocial criminal elements.
SeekingGigi replies on 4/14/2008 5:06 am:
And so by appearances the impostor in the wanted poster.
Who are you and what have you done with the lad from Gower? |
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28470 posts 4/14/2008 1:15 am |
hello 
the most beautiful view
is the one I share with you
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4/14/2008 12:47 am
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Has it been proven to be larger in humans?
(Good to see you back on the blogs George!...have missed you.)
SeekingGigi replies on 4/14/2008 8:36 am:
Proven in Canis canis
if not clearly proven in Homo sapiens var (  )
Spottily distributed in any case.
I don't go so far away
and I watch your space faithfully.
Always nice to see you.
Worth posting fluff to at least draw
a glance outten you |
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