Einsteins brain, calcium and more
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| Tue, 02-07-2006 - 1:32pm |
For littleroses especially, but if other have interest in smart brains getting into some types of "trouble..." I hope you can bear with my kind of twisted thinking here...
I was looking into brain signal processing. I wasn't really aware it was a well-populated field, but I do signal processing at work and some of the stuff I've read sounded very similar. So, I decided to look up the parathyroid because I have a neck problem and I think the parthyroid is affected. Then I saw that this causes a calcium problem and osteoporosis (which I developed in my early 30s or perhaps before) and then I followed links to 2 great Wikipedia sites (I might be a bit of a wikipedia junkie).
Recently there were articles about Einstein's brain (well-known genius with supposed Aspergers diagnosis). They said it was a little small based upon typical but its distinguishing feature was that it had lots more glial concentration than typical brains (the parts that supply "food").
So, I couldn't help notice the ties to calcium and nerve stimulation (wondering why my whole family is so over stimulated) - and we have too much calcium. Hmmmm....and weak bones. Hmmmm..... and poor glucose regulation. And funny potassium and adrenaline levels that cause strange heart arythmias. Hmmm.... and very high IQs and major sensory issues - for at least the 3 generations I know of. It can't be a coincidence. I think this constellation must be "something."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemodynamic_response
So I followed a link to another section:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrocytes
I'm thinking I need to change career fields. I wonder how you do that? They won't just listen to a engineer/physicist/mom who might be obsessed, would they?
Does this make the slightest sense to any of you? Next I think I'll go look how over/under methylation plays into all this....
Jackie

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Edited 2/19/2008 7:25 pm ET by littleroses
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