Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Journal Refresh #3 : Decrypting, Breast Cancer and the Biocompass

I haven't written much for this blog because of my busy schedule so I thought I might as well fill you in with what articles I've been reading lately. I won't write this post in a bibliography style as I did with my other posts.




  • Decrypting a brain enigma, written by Kamran Khodakhan based on the letter called Encoding of action by the Purkinje cells by David J. Hertzfeld et al. in Nature Vol 526, Issue No 7573 - pages 326 and 439,respectively.
  These were very interesting to read- I read the "introduction" by Khodakhan first and thus was able to get a better understanding of what the whole letter was about before actually reading it.                

 He compares the computational units of the brain to the ones of