Matthew Sparks

@sparksm

BS Behavioral Neuroscience: addiction and addiction treatment armchair-expert with a past toxic relationship with opioids. Aspiring terminal degree holder. Lifelong musician, metalhead, tech nerd and PC gamer, and open-mic night standup comic. Accidentally blew up on YouTube for screaming in my car.

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Not Everyone Has an Inner Voice: Behavioral Consequences of Anendophasia

Anendophasia, or a lack of inner speech, is investigated through behavioral tasks, finding that individuals with lower inner speech levels struggle with certain tasks but use compensatory strategies.

escholarship.org

Academic Papers and

This is a fascinating paper about people who experience no inner dialogue and the kind of effects traversing through life without one can or might have on someone, as well as how people adapt to this unusual difference between them and the rest of the population

The Pudding

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While going through the showcase of pages made using Svelte/Sveltekit, this one that tells stories through data, presented in beautiful, single-page scrolling fashion, was especially memorable. Enough to warrant it being added here.

Tattoo Ideas

One thing I'd argue as a starting point is there is no "theory" or a "model" of addiction as a disease. The arguments associated with that claim are actually not that cohesive. A common position associated with addiction as a disease is that it is an essential category, which is an idea we can get our arms around a bit better and which I discuss... See more

Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing

Addiction

“Hillbilly Elegy looks like a lifetime movie that's trying to win an Oscar.” - Indira Aziz

Awesome Quotes

Regulation of the L-type calcium channel

Regulation of the L-type calcium channel by phosphorylation and G proteins in various tissues and eukaryotes, affecting calcium influx and signal transduction in excitable and non-excitable cells.

geneheyman.com

Addiction

A new approach for evaluating the behavioral effects of antipsychotic drugs (Heyman, Beer) 1987

come. The resulting marriage penalty discourages marriage and rewards single parenthood. Combined marriage penalties across federal and state welfare programs can reach tens of thousands of dollars per year for a given family. One component of the marriage penalties comes from state-level free or subsidized preschool programs. In addition

Benjamin Paris • How Welfare Programs Discourage Marriage: The Case of Pre-K Education Subsidies

Politics

This is absolute garbage. If you search “marriage penalties and federal welfare programs”—which is in their Project 2025, this trash is the first result.

Fleshgod Apocalypse Attain Eternal Life with New Track "I Can Never Die"

Hesher Keenan metalsucks.net

Music and

New Fleshgod, baby!

Researchers at the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) and the University of Bonn are using a biophysical model to clarify how astrocytes interact with nerve cells to regulate rapid adaptation to new information.

Lorenzo Squadrani • Astrocytes: The Unsung Heroes of Learning and Memory - Neuroscience News

Academic Papers and

This goes along with the suggestion from that Glutamate & MDD lecture I love on YouTube given to psychiatry med students where the lecturer/professor claims that glial cells are the real stars in much of the processes that are major areas of study right now in mental illness.

Astrocytes regulate synaptic plasticity, which is essential for learning and memory. Their dysfunction can lead to significant cognitive decline.

Also, the researchers referring to themselves as Computational Neuroscientists—just a heads up!