knownot

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Member Since May 22, 2006 , From Israel

About knownot:

I have a B.Sc. in biophysics and now i'm a neuroscience graduate student in the Technion, Israel.

I like to dance, listen to music, read and bake bread.

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Answered: Infant feeding at night

My baby did the same. If your baby will be hungry, you will know it - he will wake up and start crying. And he is not. That is great! I learned not to worry so much, they know when and how to tell us ...

Posted 2 years ago

Answered: Why is nerve fiber said to represent ...

Nerve fibers contain ion-channels within their membrane. These ion-channels pass specific ions from the outside of the cell inward or in the opposite direction (depends on the concentration ...

Posted 3 years ago
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Answered: How does diffusion act against a gradient?

Diffusion (a passive transport of matter) is a movement of matter and its direction is determined by the matters gradient. The only way I know of in witch matter can passively diffuse agains its ...

Posted 3 years ago

Answered: Possible frontal lobe brain injury

MRI would have shown sighns of head trauma, but sometimes there are neuropsychological simptoms that don't show in MRI or CT. A known simptom of head trauma is the appearance of sleep disorders So ...

Posted 3 years ago

Answered: When does DNA replication occur in a cell and why ...

In eukaryotic organisms (organisms that have internal membranes for separation of organelles) DNA replication occurs in the cell nucleus during the "S phase" of the cell cycle. In animals, After the ...

Posted 4 years ago
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Answered: Is brain damage good for you?

The frontal lobes are involved in motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior. TBI (traumatic brain injury ...

Posted 4 years ago
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Answered: Sharing Shooting Stars

You are about 650 miles from one another. When you look at the sky your visual range is in the shape of a cone, that meens that you couldn't see what your friend saw 650 miles to the north-west and he ...

Posted 5 years ago
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Answered: How to improve one's memory ?

The brain disposes of any "unnecessary" information so it will be able to get new informations - the problem is that it refers to unused information as unnecessary. Information can be remembered for ...

Posted 5 years ago
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Answered: The doctors are making me take test after test ...

This is a question only for a Neurologist. according to your question, you already go to one. Do all the tests, and he (/she) will diagnose you - it will be wrong to let people that know nothing about ...