There are lots of impressive words that we use in Neuroscience to make us sound super smart 😉
My current favourite, which I taught my 3rd year science students last week, is “Gyrencephalic” (gye-ren-sef-alick) which basically means, brains that have lots of wrinkles on the surface, like human brains!
Personally, I love ‘discombobulation’ – it sort of means ‘confusing’ but it’s way more fun to say. I try to use it in papers but my supervisor keeps scrapping it out 🙁
@ Sarah love the SCN, one of my favorite brain regions!
It’s nothing to do with my particular field, but I’ve always been a fan of the word “haemochromatosis,” which is a condition in which there is an excess of iron in the blood (requiring patients to make many blood “donations” to manage their condition). Don’t ask me why, just sounds good.
There are lots of impressive words that we use in Neuroscience to make us sound super smart 😉
My current favourite, which I taught my 3rd year science students last week, is “Gyrencephalic” (gye-ren-sef-alick) which basically means, brains that have lots of wrinkles on the surface, like human brains!
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My favourite scientific hard word is
suprachiasmatic nucleus
it is a tiny part of the brain near the pituatry gland that is really our body clock and tells our body and brain when to sleep and when to wake.
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Personally, I love ‘discombobulation’ – it sort of means ‘confusing’ but it’s way more fun to say. I try to use it in papers but my supervisor keeps scrapping it out 🙁
@ Sarah love the SCN, one of my favorite brain regions!
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It’s nothing to do with my particular field, but I’ve always been a fan of the word “haemochromatosis,” which is a condition in which there is an excess of iron in the blood (requiring patients to make many blood “donations” to manage their condition). Don’t ask me why, just sounds good.
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I like the word spatiotemporal – it means something like ‘across space and time’ – I use it a lot in my research! 🙂
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