Undergraduate's lifestyle

Another change

2006-04-22T08:30:00.000-07:00

I switch on wordpress at this adress ! https://benplante.wordpress.com

Swtiching in bilingual

2006-04-17T06:38:00.000-07:00

I switch my blog to benplante.blogspot.com, right now it's only in french but the next post will be in both langague. See you over there !

Tangled bank #51

2006-04-12T07:54:00.000-07:00

I'm new in blogging then I'm not really familar with all the carnival stuff. I read the last tangled bank and I found it interesting. So, I post the link for the reader that maybe don't know what's it ! It's at Discovering biology in a digital world . Go over and read it !

Neurophysiology of the near-death experience.

2006-04-12T07:32:00.000-07:00

via Nature

The near-death experiences are describes as:

At times of extreme danger or trauma, many people report out-of-body experiences, seeing intense lights, or a feeling of peace

They've shown in the past that we can simulated those altered state by electrical stimulation or even by drugs. Then, this is not a metaphysics altered state of conscience, it's probably in big part a physiological state. Also, in the phenomen some people said that theirs arms and legs were paralysed. Then Kevin Nelson, made a link with REM, cause when find those symptoms in the kind of sleep, that what the article taling about !

Via the Near Death Experience Research Foundation, based in Federal Way, Washington, Nelson found 55 people who reported near-death experiences after traumatic incidents such as car accidents or heart surgery. He also interviewed an equal number who had not had any such experiences.

Of those who reported near-death experiences, 60% also reported having had at least one incident where they felt sleep and wakefulness blurred together. For those without a near-death experience the figure was 24%.

Such blurred periods can include sleep paralysis. Others report visual or auditory hallucinations. Such incidents can occur when some aspects of sleep's dreaming, or rapid eye movement (REM) state, intrudes into wakefulness.

In REM sleep, muscles can lose their tone or tension, inducing a feeling of paralysis. The visual activity during this state may also explain the feeling of being surrounded by light.

Damn sleep that come and fuck our daily consciousness !

God isn't in every brain !

2006-04-11T18:44:00.000-07:00

I discover this blog via Pharyngula,Amused Muse. There's a nice post about trying to give God feeling to Richard Dawkins., for those who maybe don't know him !

Spirituality and Psychology !?!

2006-04-08T14:46:00.000-07:00

Did you ever open a bookstore's flyers and find a section of books called spiritualy and psychology ? It just happended to me 5 minutes ago ! Then I googled both words to see the results. 11 400 000 ! Does it means that more a big part of the population those words have a blended meaning !? I'm in psychology undergraduate program for 2 years and half, then psychology sound to me as science with some part from humanities and another another part in more fondamentals. Some religious person try to use this science for their profit, to do marketing on the name of psychology.

The fist google pick is The school of spiritual psychology use it to create a fake academis division of psychology to recrute people in a look-like sect. The director Robert Sardello and Cheryl Sanders recommends also just theirs books. There's somethings that keep everyone in the school with the main idea of the way. And it's not scientific way !

I try on wikipidea and Spiritual Psychology redirected me to Transpersonal psychology. On the article, they link it as the fourth forces in psychology with psychanalisis, humanist and behaviorism, I only considered the last one as psychology in fact. It's the only one that you can do double-blind trial to see that helping on mental health. Psychanalisis and humanist should be considered as counselling or somethings helping people to feels better by a good confident in someone with a framework theory to motivate you to change. But the article is talking about those three forces as psychology without any shame or discomfort ! If everyone consider all of it as psychology maybe I to stiff on my definition of psychology ! But I wouln't considere to allow Spirituality and Psychology going together. Maybe I'm not alone wikipedia transfere us to don't link those to word !

Podcast on psychology

2006-04-07T13:31:00.001-07:00

I listened to This week in science a one hour radio show on science. The show is available for podcasting ! This week they talked about two studies that I found really interesting !
The first one was about the fact that is your smeeling the sweat of people how have been afraid you'll be more accurate and more quick to answer on word revealing a link with fear ! I don't know anything else on this study, that what I remembers of the show. Maybe the method was wrong and blablabla but I found it interesting !
The second is about the ancipation of laughing. When you're anticipate to laugh you have higher secretion of endorphine and growth hormone. So, if you're going to see a comedy, just going to will make you feel better ! You can save a lot of money with that, you don't realy have to go to see the movie but you thinking that you'll go !
Moreover they chat about other topic as climate, ecology etc. Dowload it and listen it, you'll see !

Tahoe killing sunflower ...

2006-04-06T14:21:00.000-07:00

Janet D. Stemwedel did really good job on a pub in Chevy Tahoe apprentice contest !

I did one ! If you're doing one let me know !

KEEP ID OUT OF MY COUNTRY !

2006-04-06T08:21:00.000-07:00

Here in Quebec, we don't really have the debate between those to thesis. We kicked out religion from everywhere couple of years ago ! But it seems that there's maybe the beginning of a debate in Canada. By Daily Transcript I fall on Montreal Gazette's article about the denieing of a grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada(SSHRC) to professor Brian Alters, the director of McGill's Evolution Education Research Centre. The title of the grant is: Detrimental effects of popularizing anti-evolution's intelligent design theory on Canadian students, teachers, parents, administrators and policymakers. They refuse it "on the grounds that he'd failed to provide the panel with ample evidence that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is correct". Alter said "Evolution is not an assumption and intelligent design is pseudo-science", and this is also my opinion and the opinion of the majority of scientific community. The SSHRC respond he don't show the "adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent design theory, was correct." He didn't need to show it ! As he said "The theory of evolution is well-established science, while intelligent design is a form of religious belief." So please, SSHRC don't be stupid ! I don't want to start blogging about ID, here in Quebec. Can we leave it to U.S. ?

Simpsons movie !

2006-04-05T20:33:00.000-07:00

I forgot what I supposed to say !

You'll need Quicktime 7. The first trailer of this movie, but since I'm listening Simpsons I asked my-self what are they waiting for, we all want to see a simpson's movie !

Excellent...

2006-04-05T06:26:00.000-07:00

As a lot of well know scientist, par exemple David Suzuki and Hubert Reeves said, the planet earth do not feels really good right now. To much Carbon dioxide in air, we are killing to much of virgin forest. Together, those to fact put us to change our habits or to be exterminated. But we could move to Mard, that another option !

Why this introduction about the importance of the environment and acting in a way to protect the planet ? It's juste because I read a short article on the implication of living on Mars and I want to blog on this subject.

Former astronaut James Pawelczyk said that "isn't the engineering work to design the spacecraft, because most of those tasks are identified and being addressed." I can figure it when we see that right now we can build underwater hotel, then when we'll be ready to export humans on Mars, we should be able to set the structure tu support life on this planet.

Pawelczy said that the problem is at another level. He said that "protecting humans from high-level radiation, as well as bone and muscle loss, pose the greatest challenges in getting to Mars." Ok, I don't know a lot about the effect of radiation on Mars on Human. I just found it interesting to see that the big challenge is how our cells will be able to adapt to radiation more than building place to live.

Causal inference

2006-04-03T19:30:00.000-07:00

via MIT News

Laura Schulz at MIT is studiing the causal inference in babies and children. In a recent study, she shows:

Even preschoolers approach the world much like scientists: They are convinced that perplexing and unpredictable events can be explained... The way kids play and explore suggests that children believe cause-and-effect relationships in the world are governed by fundamental laws rather than by mysterious forces.

Lets take a look at the experiment:

In one study, the experimenters showed children that a switch made a toy with a metal ring light up. Half the children saw the switch work all the time; half saw that the switch only lit the ring toy some of the time. The experimenters also showed the children that removing the ring stopped the toy from lighting up. The experimenters kept the switch, gave the toy to the children and asked the children to stop the toy from lighting up.

If the switch always worked, children removed the ring. If the switch only worked some of the time, children could have removed the ring but they didn't--they assumed that the experimenter had some additional sneaky way of stopping the effect. Children did something completely new: they picked up an object that had been hidden in the experimenter's hand (a squeezable keychain flashlight) and used that to try to stop the toy. That is, the children didn't just accept that the switch might work only some of the time. They looked for an explanation.

Schulz said she believes this is the first study that looks at how probabilistic evidence affects children's reasoning about unobserved causes. The researchers found that children are conservative about unobserved causes (they don't always think mysterious things are happening) but would rather accept unobserved causes than accept that things happen at random.

All that lead me to think about the believing in God. If we have a innate propensity to try to do find causal inference to everything more than finding a random explaination, is it innate to believe in a metaphysical power over us ? If parents do not give explaination about the causal-effect, telling children that is because God wants it ! They will probably set a God in they mind to explain a lot of physical world facts. As we know children learn it quick and strong, so they could believe forever if we don't give them the right answer about the causal relation in the world. So c'mon, tell the physical fact and thrut to children, do not fool them with religious bullshit...

Action potential blog

2006-04-03T09:38:00.000-07:00

As you probably know Nature Neuroscience Blog, Action potential is on for couple of months, in fact since November 2005. Is it just me or this blog is now updated enough often. I don't think that I could do a better job, but they maybe should think to hire some people to post on regular times. The only regular post is about the new paper. Is it a blog or just a publicity place for Nature to shows the new articles they publish. I'd like to read a editoral everyone couple of days on Neuroscience world, Am i the only one to be disappointed by this blog ?

Procrastination via flash video !

2006-04-01T16:49:00.000-08:00

At Restrospectacle, there's a post on a flash video. She said that a good thing for procrastination. I go over and look at it ! That's fantastic. There's a lot of good small flash video. My favorite is the invisble quest, you have to move in a differents mazes, but you don't see your cursor. There's big red eyes looking to where is the cursor ! Try it and in comments put which level you're. I'm on fourth level now, but probably more latter !

Small brain, Big IQ

2006-03-30T09:43:00.000-08:00

via NewScientist

In this study, they found out that the size of children's brain is not the main factor to evaluate the neural corrolate of IQ. They found a correlation between the thickness of the prefrontal cortex and the IQ. But as others studies showed before, there's also a correlatino with parent's job and education. Then, we still have the nature-nurture debat. The hypothesis of the scientist is that the way the brain is used when we are young will influence the thickness of prefrontal cortex, so the environment modulate IQ through the prefrontal's thickness.

Redbull and Alcool

2006-03-27T08:47:00.000-08:00

via NewScientist

They have a article on the effect of redbull mixed to alcool. They found that people who drink it says that they fell less effects of alcool. But, on the motor skill task, they are as worst as only alcool drinkers. So, don't take redbull to drive your car, you'll probably crash it !

Neurobiology of infant attachment.

2006-03-27T06:50:00.000-08:00

There's a polemic around universal childcare program in Quebec right now. More and more children spend a lot of hours in those center as young as six month. Moreover, a survey from C.D. Howe Institut show that there's more children in day-care center than the average in the rest of Canada (51,4% again 16,3%). Obviously, it's less expensive here in Quebec, that can explain why there's more children here than anywhere. Also, they show that Quebec's children are more agressive and more anxious than in the rest of Canada (agressivity: 34% vs 11,8%; anxiety: 24,2% vs 1,7%). Of course, this survey isn't based of scientifics facts but those differences are pretty high, so if we did a controled study on the subject, we could probably find some significant different between Quebec's children and Canada's children.

How can we explain the link between going to day-care center and agressivity and anxiety ? I'll try to explain it through neurobiology of attachment. First of all, we are ready to attach to the care-giver when we are young. The noradrenergic locus coeruleus helping the early brain to learn fast to attach to care-giver. On the other hand, the hypofunctionning of the amygdala avoid learning aversives to care-giver (Moriceau, & Sullivan, 2005). If you're in day-care center, this innate system is broken from is regular development. Could it produce the agressivity and anxious behavior, we talked ?

As we discuss on a previous post, we know that amygdala is often more activated on people who commit violent behavior, so if there's problem with basic attachment because children are in day-care center, the amygdala could read the environment as hostile and that the children can be more agressive and more anxious. This is just a hypothese I didn't find any study doing the correlation between the attachement, the response of amygdala when the children is growing up, agressivity and anxiety, but with what we know about amygdala and emotion, it could be possible I think. Don't you ?

Expo-Science

2006-03-25T13:03:00.000-08:00

Here in Quebec, every year we have a scientific contest for high-school and college students. Today, I've been to the regional part of this contest. I feel a lot of enthusiasm about neuroscience. Actually, the majority of presentation was so-so, but one guy keep my attention.

He talked about the role of the astrocyte in the synchronicity of cerebral activity and the possible link with cognition. He present this paper, and he does the hypothesis that the modulation of glutamate release by the astrocyte could influence the way we process information, then our cognition. Obviously, he wasn't a Ph.D. candidate so he throw the idea in the air, but that sound good. I'm not either a Ph.D. candidate on the subject so I don't know waht is the link between glia and cognition. I'll try to read on the subject in the next days and comeback with more information.

Ethical issues on genetics of violent behavior

2006-03-24T11:07:00.000-08:00

via Science

One gene thought to play a role in violent behavior codes for an enzyme called monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A)... In a recent study, researchers showed that males with lower levels were more likely to develop antisocial behavior in response to being maltreated during childhood (Science, 2 August 2002, p. 851.). This may be because they are less able to reduce their neurotransmitter levels to a baseline level after a stressful event, limiting their ability to control aggressive impulses... The differences, as revealed by MRI scans, were striking: For example, brain regions known to be involved in control of emotions and impulsivity, such as the anterior cingulate cortex, were on average 8% smaller in subjects with low levels of MAO-A. In addition, when subjects were shown pictures of angry or fearful faces, those with low MAO-A showed much greater activation of the amygdala, a region associated with anger and violent behavior

There's a important ethical issues with this study. In a after 9/11 security world, the gouvernments increased mesure on security. Then, if they could know in early stage of life who could became antisocial and commit violent behavior, they could also want to control them. A exemple of mesure that they could do is to keep a registry of how everyone rate on a biological violent behavior scale. This idea seems unethical to me, but for a lot of people that probably sound a good and safe idea. In those people, I think of Mr. Bush for the U.S. and maybe M. Harper for Canada, they are both conservative. I don't know the laws about the utility of scientific finding but I hope there's a law to protect people on those kind of issue. I really think we need this knowledge as scientific fact, but I'm again the utilisation for control of violent behavior. We need a protection for futur genetics finding, if we don't want to all of us be scan by genetics screening and be put on a file.

Sixth sense can come from within

2006-03-23T19:34:00.000-08:00

via Nature

This article present a theory of perception of our body in space, or proprioception. Usually, the main idea is that nerve impulse coming from muscles and joints to the brain. Ok, that sound good ! But the found nerve impulse out-going from the brain to the limbs. They suppose "some sort of comparison between outgoing and ingoing signals that result in the final sense of position".

A generation of immortal humans

2006-03-23T10:24:00.000-08:00

By studying the genetics of aging, some labs try to find out if there's a longetivity gene. Right now, the most susceptible gene that could play this role is SIR2: "Sirtuins are hypothesized to play a key role in an organism's response to stresses (such as heat or starvation) and to be responsible for the lifespan-extending effects of calorie restriction". They found a life extension of 30% in yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and up to 50% in roundworm.

Usually, the calorie restriction is the way to increased lifespan, the old idea was that process reduced the geneal metabolism, but in fact calorie restriction is speeding up the metabolism. The new idea is that calorie restriction is a stressor, then there's a double inhibition on genes that usually inhibit the production of SIR2 so the production increased.

What's the possibilities for life extension of Humans ? Right now, they found that the human version of SIR2, the SIRT1, give a longer life to cells. But, we don't know on lifespan what could happen. We cannot do a calorie restiction in human enough long to get the result. The scientists need to create a drug to increased this gene, try it on animal, and maybe in years we'll find a cure to aging. Soon is the time when at 100 years old, you'll be considered as young...

Visual cortex can gives meaning to non-visual inputs

2006-03-22T06:30:00.000-08:00

MIT news report a research at Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Marshall G. Shule and Mark F. Bear found that neurons responses to light, nothing special here, but the paired it with the delivery of a drop of water. The neuronal activity changed. Moreover, the neuronal activity continued same if the light stimulation wasn't showed to the rat, as long as the water was delivered. They thought that's in link with the anticipation of rewards. This kind of association is usual in associative cortex but in the visual primary cortex it's the first time scientist found it. Their conclusion said "These neurons were not acting in response to what the stimuli were, but what they had come to mean". The visual cortex isn't just a detector but can process this information.

D2 receptor for craving in drug addiction

2006-03-21T06:11:00.000-08:00

via Science Daily
Dr. David Self and graduate student Scott Edwards bases the study on the different between the activation of D1 and D2 (dopamine receptors) in the craving behavior when a rats became addict to cocaïne, "molecules that activate D1 are believed to decrease the craving response, while D2 activators are believed to increase it." They found that "the strongly addicted rats responded more aggressively to the craving-enhancing D2 activator than the less-addicted rats did, and were not as strongly deterred by the D1 activator." By studying those receptors they wants to help addicted humans to fight again this illness. As they said: "If people do become addicted and say they want to quit, their brain system for inhibiting craving is weaker. We want to try to strengthen those systems that help them inhibit their craving,"

And the winner is....

2006-03-21T05:53:00.000-08:00

In my last post I talked about a neuroword contest, the winner is known. It's Neil H. with neurologism. Switch your vocab from neologism to neurologism.

Neologism or Neurologism

2006-03-20T13:51:00.000-08:00

I'm late on this news, but I found it on mindhacks today and I learn about a new blog, neurofuture. They start a competition on neologism with neuro at the beggining, now we maybe have to talk about neurologism. Go over and read it, there's some really good neologism.

The science of religion

2006-03-20T10:20:00.000-08:00

Daniel Dennett posted on Seed magazine about why the scientific study of religion is a necessary.

He first talking about a general introduction on science's rules: "Those who want to make claims about religion will have to live by the same rules: prove it or drop it." He shows with this affirmation that science is not again religion, but if religion wants to claims anythings, they have to prove it as any sciences does. They haven't a special status that raise them over the scientific facts !

Then, he gives some good exemples of how usefull it's to study it. There's some scientific facts on the positives effects of believing in God for health and moral. "There is growing evidence that many religions have succeeded remarkably well on this score, improving both the health and the morale of their members, quite independently of the good works they may have accomplished to benefit."

There's numbers of study that shows how minds can control somatic aspect of life, there's maybe the same process for praying or believing, it's probably changing our mind states and have outcome on physicals aspects. As Dennett said: "There is no better source of truth on any topic than well-conducted science, and they know it (religious people)." Then, lets the science doing his works, the truth at the ends could be good for scientist and believers !

The best part of being a scientist

2006-03-19T13:00:00.000-08:00

Few days ago, I post about the worst part of being a scientist, but I missed a post from Daily transcript about the best part.
That lets me some hope ! There's some good things !

Going red...

2006-03-19T10:42:00.000-08:00

Just a post to thanks you all guys to come over. I've seen on the map that there's people from many differents places. Don't be shy to talk about the blog around you. I wish to get a map complety red a day.
Thanks

First poster: part 2

2006-03-19T10:37:00.000-08:00

I'm back from my first congress, and I found this one really boring !
We were only 3 to present stuff on animals, so the majority just walk nose up in front of my poster. If it ain't about human, it ain't psychology. That the feeling a get. Anyway, few curious people came over to ask more about our work. The others guys working on animals told me that in neuroscience congress the interaction between scientist is better. Hope the next one is gonna help me in my carrer. I meet a guy from the lab where I'll be on next summer that the only good thing of this congress.

my next reading...

2006-03-17T18:36:00.000-08:00

Every year, ScienceDirect post the top25 hottest articles in every field of study. In neuroscience, there is some article that seems really interesting to me.

The #6: Memory consolidation and reconsolidation: what is the role of sleep?

The #11: The Neural Basis of Financial Risk Taking

The #25: Subcortical loops through the basal ganglia

Before, I must finish a "Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain" from Antonio Damasio. I'll will reviews it all, when it'll be over.

Replay for better memory

2006-03-15T14:20:00.000-08:00

I fall on a month old article in Scientific American about the reversing firing neurones in hippocampus of mices when they learn spatial pattern.

This way for consolidation of memory in mouse seems like when we repete a phone numbers to be sure to do not forget it. We haven't the tools to study the replay of spatial pattern in human brain but I'd like to know if it's the same things in human as mouse. Maybe in a couple of years !

The worst parts of being scientist

2006-03-15T06:32:00.000-08:00

This morning, I start as usually reading some blog and I fall on Daily Transcript, which is one of my favorite out of my main interest. The post is about the worst part of being scientist. That pretty funny to read and gave me good idea of how it's working in scientific world.

Imaging genetics and mind

2006-03-14T07:15:00.000-08:00

I just learned, by a post on mindhacks about a new technique to investigate the like between the brain and the mind. In fact, the author of the paper on >Science and Consciousness Review is Thomas Ramsoy.

He found a link between the version (Small or Long allele) of the gene that codes for 5-HT and the levels of 5-HT in the amygdala. Moreover, some papers have shown a link between the link of 5-HT and behavior (anxiety, fear, depression). Quick link to read, go over.

First poster

2006-03-13T12:12:00.000-08:00

Today, I spend all my time polishing my first poster as first author. I'm kinda proud about what I did. I'm not going in a big congress, it's not SFN or FENS or whatever others big congress. It's not that small, but the main subjet isn't neuroscience, it's psychology. The congress is SQRP, in english Quebec Society for Research in Psychology. I'll probably be the only, or maybe we're gonne be a couple if I'm lucky, one working on animal.

My poster title is: Effect of exposition to a novel or familiar stimulation on the expression of arg3.1 in C57BL/6 mice.

Arg3.1 is IEG a gene that code for a protein implicated in synaptic plasticity, it's found in dendrites and some scientists said that means it plays a role in activity-dependant plasticity. We found that the expression of this gene is higher in deep layer VI. This layer is in link with intra-cortical and sub-cortical connection, so that leads us to believe in plasticity at this level instead of in layer IV where the inputs from the senses arrived.

That means that there's encoding system in first stage of processing informations in the primary cortex. Moreover, when the simulation becomes familiar, the stimulus has already switched in longterm memory, then they is a massive drop of arg3.1's neurones in cortex. That leads us to think that there's a early process in encoding that changes in a another process on comparison of the stimulus with what is on longterm memory, probably through the hippocampus.

Brain for numbers

2006-03-13T07:58:00.000-08:00

Seed magazine report a research on how the brain procede the information about numbers. They found a difference in activation for discret versus continous quantities in the intraparietal sulcus. Go over to learn more

Apes to Humans

2006-03-12T12:43:00.000-08:00

I found out via Aetiology that scientist have found a regulatory gene that could be implicated in fast evolution from apes to humans. The genes is working as an interrupter on a huge numbers of others gene. One gene changing a lot more. Find more on Chicago Tribune.

Taste like shit...

2006-03-11T17:22:00.000-08:00

I was surfing around and looking on what's new on nature neuroscience, when I fall on a paper by Jack Nitschke. They did MRIf on tasting. I like this kind of paper which show the control of mind over the sensory system. I didn't read it all, but I feel that nature doesn't let a shitty paper comes out on their pages.

They showed that if we expecting a less aversive taste than the reality, we have less activation in opeculum and in insula. Moreover, the behavioral response on the taste is also gonna be less stronger. That give us a good trick for when we have to eat stuff that doesn't taste good: close your eye and think that's taste amazing.

Week-end days

2006-03-11T06:41:00.000-08:00

What does it mean exactly ? Week-end days ?

Since, I'm in psychology, I don't really know, the grade challengw, who's gonna be the best is so important that I don't take time to relaxe same if its week-end. You know, the graduate school ?

Yeah, if you want to become a psychologist you need good GPA, then you have to study a lot. Anyway, I don't want to be a psychologist, but GPA is important to get bursuries. Yeah, I need it to full me résumé, to get funding as graduate student next year.

In this way, I'm not so bad. I've worked in a lab last summer on NSREC summer award, this summer I'll do the same, but I'll also be at a lab at University of Montreal. I have to show what I worth in a lab. I'd like to study over there for my M.Sc.

Back to main subject, week-end days shame on you !!

Enstein, Danone and DHA

2006-03-10T19:48:00.000-08:00

Today, I've seen a new publicity from Danone on a canadian channel. The publicity showed a bunch of children, who were disguised in Enstein, eating danone yagourt with DHA

Yes, there is a link between DHA and the developpement of the brain, but it doesn't mean that there is a link between DHA and the IQ. Anyway, I just really hate this kind of publicity. When I'm tuning the T.V. and sawing this kind of marketing based on hypothesis scientifics facts trying to utilize the mom's feeling about their kids.

New blog

2006-03-09T16:47:00.000-08:00

All aroung the blogosphere, we can read a bunch of blogs written by graduate student, on differents topics. So why not a independant undergraduate blog ? I found a lot of sponsorized university undergraduate blog, but not that much without any link to a university. Then, I start this one !

I'll post on the life of a undergraduate student who want to go through the academic world to become (in a few years or more...) a university professor. I'm studying psychology, but my mean interest is the behavioral neuroscience. I'll probably try to post on this topic either. I use probably cause I really don't know right now what am I gonna blog about...

Feel free to read me, to email, to whatever...