[FUN_Mail] Fwd: Another classic paper

Joseph Burdo via FUN_Mail fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org
Tue Sep 9 10:22:37 EDT 2014


While a bit off topic, I would argue that if they are considering research
for a career, the most important paper for them to read is a more general
methodological one: How to be productively stupid!

"
"The importance of stupidity in scientific research"
http://jcs.biologists.org/content/121/11/1771.long


Joe

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Megan Hagenauer via FUN_Mail <
fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:

> Great discussion!
>
> My contributions have a sleep/circadian slant:
>
> Dement, W.C., and Kleitman, N. (1957). Cyclic Variations in EEG during
> Sleep and their Relation to Eye Movements, Body Motility, and Dreaming. EEG
> Clinical Neurophysiology 9: 673-690.
>
> "With dreaming and hypnagogie reverie assigned to a definite EEG stage,
> there exists at least a fairly consistent relation between the EEG and
> levels of consciousness and it becomes possible to undertake the second
> step of considering the neural origin of these patterns as representing the
> basis of consciousness itself."
>
> - This paper is long-winded (good for teaching skimming!), but it is
> excellent for starting discussions of consciousness!
>
>
> Aschoff, J. (1965). Circadian Rhythms in Man. Science 148 (3676):
> 1427-1432.
>
> "Since in this case I myself was the subject, I can add a few remarks on
> personal feelings. After a great curiousity about 'true time' during the
> first 2 days of bunker life, I lost all interest in the matter and felt
> perfectly comfortable to live 'timeless'."
>
> - A short elegant paper, chronicling the original circadian bunker
> experiments in which student volunteers (and Aschoff himself!) go into
> isolation to experience timelessness.
>
>
> Ralph M.R., Foster R.G., Davis F.C., Menaker M. (1990) Transplanted
> Suprachiasmatic Nucleus Determines Circadian Period. Science 247:  975-978.
> "Small neural grafts from the suprachiasmatic region restored circadian
> rhythms to arrhythmic animals whose own nucleus had been ablated."
>
> - Successful *brain transplants* after which the behavior of the host
> animal is determined by the genotype of the donor.  Soooo cool!
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 9:56 AM, DJ Brasier via FUN_Mail <
> fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org> wrote:
>
> > As a fan of teaching controversy, two sets that I especially love are the
> > pre- vs. post-synaptic LTP:
> >
> > Malinow & Tsien 1990 and Stevens & Wang 1994 vs. Kauer & Nicoll 1988 &
> > Liao & Malinow 1995
> >
> > And the equally vicious debate about alpha- vs. beta/gamma-G-proteins:
> >
> > Logothetis & Clapham 1987 and Reuveny & Jan 1994 vs. Yatani & Birbaumer
> > 1988 and Birbaumer & Brown (Scientific Correspondence in Nature) 1987.
> >
> > It's fun for me to tell students how both of these nearly came to blows
> > between the opposing sides after numerous insults were exchanged.
> >
> > DJ
> >
> >
> > On 9/9/14, 8:10 AM, Lom, Barbara via FUN_Mail wrote:
> >
> >> I’m not even going to try to top Noah’s example, but this is a fun
> >> conversation so I’ll toss in a few favorites from the turn of the more
> >> recent century regarding what was, at the time a controversial
> assertion of
> >> neurogenesis in the adult primate/human brain.  Not sure I’d call these
> the
> >> most amazing ever neuroscience papers ever, but they are easy for
> >> undergrads to read and the contrary results reliably generate lively
> class
> >> discussions (null results published in Science).  Plus there’s a New
> Yorker
> >> article that describes some of the context for the science and the
> drama:
> >>
> >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9809557
> >>
> >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10521353
> >>
> >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11739948
> >>
> >> http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/07/23/rethinking-the-brain
> >>
> >> _____________________________________________
> >>
> >> Barbara Lom, PhD
> >> Professor & Chair of Biology
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/9/14, 5:36 AM, "Noah Sandstrom via FUN_Mail" <
> >> fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Richard, Sam, do you really consider 1952 and 1962 to be "old school"?
> >> While perhaps predating what we might consider "modern neuroscience" I
> >> would put Brown-Séquard's *1889* article in *Lancet* ("Note on the
> effects
> >> produced on man by subcutaneous injections of a liquid obtained from the
> >> testicles of animals") at the top of my list! In this paper,
> Brown-Séquard
> >> explores the behavioral and cognitive effects of extracts from dog and
> >> guinea pig testicles when self-injected. It is a tour-de-force that
> >> reflects the passion, commitment, and fortitude we should all strive to
> >> have as scientists (how strongly do you believe in the importance of the
> >> questions you are asking?); it raises thought-provoking questions about
> >> quantification, methodology, standardization (what, exactly, are "great
> >> powers of defecation?); and it makes clear that, as rough as some of our
> >> research students may think they have it, they are way better off than
> >> those of Brown-Séquard who had to measure the length of his jet of
> urine.
> >> In all seriousness, though, this is the first paper I have students in
> my
> >> Hormones and Behavior class read. Great questions, after all, stand the
> >> test of time!
> >>
> >> Thanks for asking this great question, Bill!
> >> Noah
> >>
> >> Brown-Séquard CE. Note on the effects produced on man by subcutaneous
> >> injections of a liquid obtained from the testicles of animals.*Lancet*
> >> 1889;
> >> 2: 105-107.
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Richard Olivo via FUN_Mail <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:
> >> fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>>
> >> Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 8:14 PM
> >> Subject: [FUN_Mail] Another classic paper
> >> To: "fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org
> >"
> >> <fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>>
> >>
> >>
> >> I suppose I'm old school too, but my nominee would be Hubel and Wiesel's
> >> classic paper on primary visual cortex:
> >>
> >> Hubel DH & Wiesel TN (1962). Receptive fields, binocular interaction and
> >> functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. J Physiol 160,
> >> 106–154.
> >>
> >> This paper made sense of what neurons in the cortex were doing in
> creating
> >> the next step in visual perception, and it also revealed how they were
> >> arranged anatomically. It was a major step in advancing our
> understanding
> >> of the mammalian brain, and it opened a huge field of research on visual
> >> processing that is still flourishing today.
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >> Richard Olivo
> >> rolivo at smith.edu<mailto:rolivo at smith.edu>
> >>
> >> On Sep 8, 2014, at 1:16 PM, "Gizerian, Samantha via FUN_Mail" <
> >> fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Call me old school, but the paper that really blew my mind, and
> continues
> >> to amaze students is Hodgkin and Huxley J. Physiol. (1952) 117, 500-44.
> >> (here:
> >> http://www.sfn.org/~/media/SfN/Documents/ClassicPapers/
> >> ActionPotentials/hodgkin5.ashx)
> >> The whole series is great, but the last paper summing up the experiments
> >> is
> >> really the one that is amazing.  In context of the time and techniques
> >> available, it is a pretty stunning achievement as well.  Not to mention
> >> that finally we have the tangible connection that students are looking
> for
> >> between the physics they didn't want to learn and the neuroscience they
> >> signed up for.
> >>
> >> Sam
> >>
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> >> The "Inception" paper from the Tonegawa lab was the one that came to
> mind
> >> for me too...!
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Schettino, Luis F. via FUN_Mail <
> >> fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org<mailto:fun_mail at lists.funfaculty.org>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Wow, this is EXACTLY what came to my mind when I read the question. No
> >> doubt this article is one of the coolest studies out there. It is
> >> incredibly creative and technically challenging. Great suggestion Ian!
> >>
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> >> What a great question, Bill! BTW, it sounds like a nice way to put
> >> together the perfect reading list for a seminar class. Can I suggest
> >> either that the replies go to the whole list or that Bill posts the
> >> results?
> >>
> >> Maybe I'm guilty of some kind of recency effect with this suggestion
> >> since I just used it in class but if they have some interest in
> >> plasticity and behavior I'd have to suggest von Melchner, Pallas, & Sur
> >> (2000):
> >>
> >> http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/publications/visual.pdf
> >>
> >> It was preceded by a companion paper by Sharma, Angelucci, & Sur
> >> (2000) that is purely physiological:
> >>
> >> http://web.mit.edu/msur/www/publications/induction.pdf
> >>
> >> I suppose if you're going to publish in Nature you might as well do it
> >> in bunches!
> >>
> >> IH
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> >> In the course of working with undergraduates on a research project
> >> this summer, we have read relevant research articles. As my students
> >> are wrapping up their research project, they asked to read the most
> >> amazing neuroscience article ever. What would YOU recommend?
> >>
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