[HN Gopher] Pleasure or pain? He maps the neural circuits that d...
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       Pleasure or pain? He maps the neural circuits that decide
        
       Author : chapulin
       Score  : 28 points
       Date   : 2024-05-02 17:21 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | whiplash451 wrote:
       | What a beautiful area of research. Kudos to Pr Abdus-Saboor and
       | his team.
        
         | zafka wrote:
         | I agree, I plan to keep an eye on what they are doing. Reading
         | this article is triggering an impulse in me to begin some
         | research on some tangent ideas. While the probability of
         | following that urge is relatively low, the idea is going into
         | my list.
        
       | Euphorbium wrote:
       | Is this seo? I dont care about the ENTIRE life story, just give
       | me the recipe. Still dont know what he did.
        
         | h0l0cube wrote:
         | It's an interview which _does_ cover what he's worked on and
         | what he's working on now. I'd recommend actually reading TFA
         | but here's a sample of what he did:
         | 
         | > In my final year as a postdoc, I genetically engineered mice
         | to have gentle touch neurons that responded to blue light. My
         | plan was to stimulate the neurons with blue light and see what
         | the mice did.
         | 
         | > When I started my own lab in 2018, we were ready to start
         | those experiments. I still remember the day the students came
         | into my office to show me what they had found. It was like this
         | eureka moment. When we activated neurons through the skin on
         | the mice's backs, the animals behaved as if they were being
         | stroked there. That launched the whole project. We did a lot
         | more behavioral tests and traced the pathway for social touch
         | from the skin to the spinal cord to the reward centers in the
         | brain.
        
         | saurik wrote:
         | It sounds like you just dislike magazines. The entire point of
         | a magazine is to spend more time and make an enjoyable read
         | with a longer form article. Just because you prefer newspapers
         | doesn't mean it makes sense to shit on magazines: some of us
         | like magazines.
        
         | knowaveragejoe wrote:
         | Did you stop after the first paragraph or something?
        
       | geopurcell wrote:
       | Junk.
        
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