Links for your consideration

Here are a few things I've come across in the past couple of weeks that might be of interest and just maybe you might not have come across already.

Links and interesting bits

Despite my insistence in the last post that I would have a new post up within two weeks- here we are a month later and still not even a hint of a deep brain stimulation post! I'm starting to realise that trying to balance blogging with any semblance of regularity, numerous PhD commitments and life in general isn’t exactly easy. So after finally coming to that realisation I’ve decided my best bet is to start making more regular but smaller posts, maybe giving a quick summary of some interesting recent research or pointing you in the direction of any interesting science-y related article out there in cyber space. That way I can take a bit more time over the longer posts without feeling under pressure and hopefully as I gain a bit more confidence and competence with this writing lark I can make the bigger topic driven posts more frequent!

So here are a few things that have caught my eye online in the past few weeks……

The Centre Surround model and Disorders of the Basal Ganglia

Hello! after a break that was far too long I'm back to the blogging (those first two posts obviously took it out of me!). Hopefully I can pick up a bit of momentum this time round and manage a few more in quick succession. For this post I want to follow on from the first I did about the Basal Ganglia, in particular let's talk about how the centre surround model I introduced in the first post has helped clinical scientists in understanding what causes lie behind symptoms they observe in patients with a range of high profile disorders of the Basal Ganglia. I'll be taking my first post as a start point and building on that because I want to avoid any returning readers (wishful thinking?) from having to read the same things twice (plus I'm lazy and don't want to type the same thing multiple times) so now would be a good time to go back now and have a look here.