Matej Šarlija

it has been shown that numerous brain regions are impacted by vagus nerve stimulation, and this connectivity has been termed the “vagus afferent network”.

I think I’ve lived a life that’s given me a very ‘spiky’ view of the world, and a fair bit of what I genuinely consider to be true/correct is viewed by most as obviously wrong.

70% of all diagnoses made in the NHS involve pathology and biomedical science

Skilled human operators are a valuable resource that limits the amount of drones that can be used at once.

Whereas Radiology is a specialty that typically renders impressions, Pathology typically offers the definitive discriminant power of a true diagnosis, along with any associated prognostic / theranostic value-added data. Although a radiologist is asked to render impressions on received images alone, a pathologist is tasked with the generation of... See more

In short, we still lack mechanistic understanding of the roles of vagal sensory neurons in the microbiota-gut-brain axis, calling for more cell-type specific ablation studies in the future

about two-thirds of enteroendocrine cells are able to make synapses with adjacent nerves

That will probably make war more capital-intensive, as human labor is increasingly removed from the equation (and because AI is very capital-intensive)

The gastrointestinal tract secretes hormones that control of feeding. These peptides access the brain partly through the area postrema, a circumventricular organ located in the roof of the 4th ventricle. The area postrema is situated above the NTS, thus allowing neurons to respond directly to circulating gut hormones, and to relay these signals to... See more