In a couple of days the momma and I will take a short road trip to visit a friend/colleague of hers to work on one of her projects. At first I was confused when the momma told me that her friend has a chocolate lab. The momma works in a lab so I naturally thought they had some research going on that involved chocolate. Could chocolate somehow prevent or ameliorate neurodegeneration? I’m sure that would make a lot of people very happy (and the momma surely would win the Nobel Prize)! However, I just got some even better news. His chocolate lab is actually a dog!
Just look at that cool way he wears his “slobbage”! When the momma and her friend are at work, us two dog dudes will be hanging out all week together. I’m way psyched about that!
Listened to: Thrown a Bone from the album “Inside Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” by Terence Blanchard
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chocolate,
dogs,
holiday,
research,
science
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One of the therapies used for the momma’s papa after his stroke is called functional electrical stimulation. It was used to “exercise” the muscles of facial expression on the left side of his face.
French neurologist, Guillaume Duchenne, most notably credited for the discovery of the hereditary muscular dystrophy - Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy, used electrical stimulation on live subjects to study facial expressions. He discovered that genuine smiles from true happiness are formed by muscles of the mouth and muscles of the cheeks and eyes, forming crow’s feet.
Duchenne stimulating muscles of facial expression with electricity.
Plate from Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (1862) demonstrates various expressions from Duchenne’s electrical stimulation studies.
The momma’s papa has been walking a bit each day now. When he makes it out the door of his inpatient rehab, he will be going home! Hopefully that will happen in the next few weeks!
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Duchenne,
electricity,
eyes,
insight,
neurology,
neuroscience,
psychology,
research,
test
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Project Implicit
We heard about this project on the news. It is an online study from the collaboration of researchers at Harvard University, University of Virginia, and University of Washington. There are over 90 randomly chosen tests in political, ethnic, sports, and a variety of other categories. One tested the momma’s bias between boxers and briefs!
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bias,
ethnicity,
implicit,
political,
preference,
psychology,
research,
social,
test
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