I have just learned that Reed Cartwright successfully defended his dissertation and now joins the inner cabal of the Evil Darwinist Conspiracy!!! He is expected to report to his new job for the Department of Manufactured Evidence after a night of heavy drinking and debauchery.
Congratulations Reed! Errr, Dr. Cartwright!
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Pure Pedantry found this paper on leptin’s effects in the hippocampus, and then went on to wonder
I have never heard of a link between leptin and memory. They also make this link between ABeta mice and leptin. ABeta is a protein whose accumulation has been linked to Alzheimer’s. Mice that create to much ABeta show cognitive deficits. They show that an ABeta overproducing mouse also showed improvement when treated with leptin — and link that result to the observation that leptin decreases ABeta. I am not sure what to make of that, but there is probably a metabolic story related to ABeta production.
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