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About Nicholas Unger
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I am particularly adept at answering any sort of question relating to the action of various neurotransmitters on neurons. Any sort of Neurophysiology/Cell Physiology or Neuropharmacology questions, particularly ion channel based in relation to physiological response. Anything other than that will earn you an educated guess.
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I have worked in a Neurophysiology lab for 3 years now on various projects for my dissertation. My expertise is the hypothalamic homeostatic control mechanisms in thermoregulation. Also neural control mechanisms in general as well as Suspended Animation techniques and theory.
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American Physiology Society
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Capital Univeristy- B.A Biology-premed Minor Psychology 06'
The Ohio State University - Ph.D Candidate Biophysics 10'
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Expert: Nicholas Unger
Date: 5/14/2008
Subject: thinking
Question
Does thinking require energy? Does someone focused on a task burn more energy than someone daydreaming?
thank you,
andrew
Answer
Andrew,
The short answer would be yes. This is somewhat the principle that some of those Functional MRI's that you may have seen that show little "weather maps" of activity in someones brain during certain activities. This is because there is increased blood flow meaning a higher rate of oxygen consumption. Since oxygen consumption is fairly proportional to energy burning that would lead me to conclude that thinking does require energy.
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