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Stories of our fascination with the Brain: from medical mysteries, great triumphs and cautionary tales, to great discoveries and tragic failures, conspiracy theories, technology, and more; hosted by Nicholas Kircher (Published every Tuesday AU Time) chemicalmind.substack.com
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TLDR: Serotonin has no association with depression whatsoever. Instead, some cases are thought to be caused by reduced neuroplasticity during chronic periods of stress (mediated by the HPA axis and cortisol), resulting i
I know you’ve heard of it. “Dopamine.” It’s supposedly a chemical in the brain that causes pleasure, right? I mean, everyone says so. Even Harvard says so, and surely we can trust Harvard, right? No, sadly, this most per
Note: I am not a doctor (I didn’t even finish High School) and none of this should be taken seriously let alone be considered medical advice, or in any way accurate, rational, logical, grammatically correct, or even comp
Addiction Resources: https://chemicalmind.substack.com/p/addiction-support-resources Ko-Fi Link: https://ko-fi.com/dopamine Note: This is a true story, taken from one of the many fascinating case reports of medical liter
“The common conception that the brain is primarily for thinking, or other cognitive processes, is potentially misleading... neuroscience may benefit from a theoretical structure that centers on basic questions of how the
Coffee Fund: https://ko-fi.com/dopamine Note from Author: Yes, the title is slightly click-bait; but only slightly. Welcome to another deep dive. Morality (from Latin moralitas ‘manner, character, proper behavior‘) is th
If you’re interested in further discussion on neuro-integration from all aspects and angles, I’ve set up a discord server here. Come join the fun! WARNING: The following contains MANY spoilers for the show Pantheon (2022
“So far, there is no convincing evidence for Abdominal Migraines. Migraines just don’t work like that.” These were the words spoken to me by a Head of Neurology; a very accomplished man at the top of his career, running
Note: I’m neither an economist nor a demographist, I’m just some guy with an opinion about everything, and by default, you should assume that everything I’ve written here is wrong. Most of you know me by now, I think. I’
“All the cruel and brutal things, even genocide, starts with the humiliation of one individual.” Kofi Annan Red. That was all I could see. Red. The colour. The smell. The sound. It saturated my very being. Every sinew, e
Warning: This post includes references to acts of Genocide Note from the author: Although my voice has returned for the most part, you will have to forgive my hoarseness in the audio narration; my vocal cords are still r
Huge thank you to Doctors Tommy Blanchard and Gunnar for agreeing to have me tag along to this extremely scientific and highly intellectual discussion on the impending threat from Chicken Zombies. We had a ton of fun, an
Before we get started… I’ve updated BlockedStack, my Substack Browser Extension, with the ability to export all your Substack notes that you’ve ever posted and download them all into a single giant Markdown text file. Gi
I don’t remember the exact day when he died, or when we heard the news. Memory, for me, has always been a very fuzzy thing. Ill-defined. Blurred. Time gets away from me, and I am rarely able to estimate the time distance
Authors note: I wrote this post shortly following the attempted assassination of Trump, in an attempt to explain that hoping or cheering for such events, regardless of who the target is, does not bode well for any democr
I’ve got like 6 drafts in the works right now, but I wanted to get this out today because, as a former grey-hat hacker, I feel a kind of responsibility to tell people when I see some crazy things going on in the world of
There's a mushroom, Amanita Ocreata, also called the Destroying Angel. It's one of the most toxic fungi known to man. It contains toxins whose specificity targets the enzyme responsible for reading and transcribing your
Transcript: I like to make a point of getting along with as many different kinds of people as I can. I have very few outright boundaries in this regard. Nazis (and neo-nazis, and white supremacists generally) are not par
Ever since computers have existed, humans have wondered what it might be like if a computer could host their own mind and consciousness. Inspired by experiments with Fruit Fly neural networks, Neuroscientist Tommy Blanch
TLDR In my own flurry of baseless* speculation, I invent my own conspiracy theory: that a KGB Active Measures operation (a kind of propaganda) from the 1980s called Operation Denver (a real thing) - meant to convince the
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