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'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by joshspankit »

ekanes wrote: post #71
eloisius wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have the exact opposite sense of time. I'm frequently several minutes late to meetings because I've completely lost track of time. I'm very cue-dependent, and with this everything-at-home lifestyle we've transitioned to, I often have split-second confusion that I'm just having lunch in the middle of the day and have to go back to work in a minute and not go take a shower like it's after dinner.

If you haven't before, consider looking into whether or not you might have ADHD.

I have a very similar experience of time, and have only now late life gotten some insight in to my past struggles with a ADHD diagnosis.

Worth looking in to foooor sure.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by ekanes »

eloisius wrote: post #74
ekanes wrote: post #71

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If you haven't before, consider looking into whether or not you might have ADHD.

I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid and took Ritalin for a little while, but hated it so I convinced my parents to let me stop. I haven't sought medication or treatment since then. I can manage it really well if I'm intentional about how I arrange and use my environment, and it usually seems like the bursts of intense focus and creativity compensate for the tendency to be distracted and chasing multiple concurrent thre…

It's a long conversation and hard to have here/in-comments, but I'd encourage you to look into it again, for several reasons. I get the focus/creativity aspect for sure!

1. Medications have come a long way, and there's more than just Ritalin (or Adderall) as options. I get the grey scale concept, but I don't think it has to be that way. There are varying doses and varying medications, and you might find something that is almost all upside with (possibly) no downside.

2. You might perceive yourself to be managing / coping fine (and you might be, I don't mean that in any disrespectful way!) but there could be vast undiscovered focus abilities you could access. For me personally, the difference on and off medication is VAST.

3. You might not always have that manager/environment. Or (what happened for me) someday you might (already) have a family, and fewer options for those bursts of focus. I used to work until 3am when I was on a roll, but now I can't.

4. The distraction / multiple threads stuff can have other impacts on your own self-image. Depends on how well it's managed I guess, in the world and inside your head.

Good luck! :)

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by ekanes »

joshspankit wrote: post #91
ekanes wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you haven't before, consider looking into whether or not you might have ADHD.

I have a very similar experience of time, and have only now late life gotten some insight in to my past struggles with a ADHD diagnosis. Worth looking in to foooor sure.

Yeah, I find myself encouraging others to explore this stuff until it's fully resolved in your mind, because of the difference it's made in my life and in others I've seen personally.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by eloisius »

joshspankit wrote: post #91
ekanes wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you haven't before, consider looking into whether or not you might have ADHD.

I have a very similar experience of time, and have only now late life gotten some insight in to my past struggles with a ADHD diagnosis. Worth looking in to foooor sure.

I'd love to hear more. I've definitely lived with the downsides, but my experience with medicating for it as pre-teen was so negative that I have been extremely reticent to seek treatment since.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by acrefoot »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #90
acrefoot wrote: post #83

I thought we had discovered pacemaker cells over 20 years ago. I'd be very surprised if that didn't already factor into hypotheses of how episodic memory is ordered. Either this article is disingenuous, or neuroscience suffers from deep fragmentation that is hindering progress. https://www.hhmi.org/news/researchers-discover-molecular-pac...

The prior probability of you being wrong about facts in another field is fairly high. The prior probability of the researcher being wrong about facts in their own field is much lower. Therefore the default assumption one should have when reviewing research from a field that is NOT their own is closer to "I am the idiot" than "The researchers are the idiots". in my humble opinion.

The years I've gone to SFN, I've been amazed at how fragmented the field is. People get into neuroscience from all sorts of places. Neurosurgery, C. elegans research, optogenetic studies, fmri studies, biochemistry: these approaches to neuroscience are often so different they don't know about the advances of the others.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by L_226 »

yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

Curious if you play/ed a musical instrument? I learned violin as a child and also experience the same phenomenon you describe, but I always attributed it to some neural pathway that was created during musical training (i.e. reading sheet music).

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by SubiculumCode »

acrefoot wrote: post #95
SubiculumCode wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The prior probability of you being wrong about facts in another field is fairly high. The prior probability of the researcher being wrong about facts in their own field is much lower. Therefore the default assumption one should have when reviewing research from a field that is NOT their own is closer to "I am the idiot" than "The researchers are the idiots". in my humble opinion.

The years I've gone to SFN, I've been amazed at how fragmented the field is. People get into neuroscience from all sorts of places. Neurosurgery, C. elegans research, optogenetic studies, fmri studies, biochemistry: these approaches to neuroscience are often so different they don't know about the advances of the others.

Should have gone to HBM I guess ;) I suppose my comment was a bit strong. My Ph.D was on the the hippocampus and the development of binding operations supporting episodic memory using standard MRI and cognitive tasks, and I already know I don't understand half of what they are doing in more basic neuroscience articles.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by aeternum »

yesenadam wrote: post #8

I guess this is a different thing, but... When I was a kid I read a book that said if before you go to sleep you think "I will wake up at Xam" (whatever time you want) then you wake up at exactly that time. Which is pretty weird! We can't do that when we're awake. It actually works, and I've never needed an alarm clock. For a few ultra-important days I used one, like catching a plane, but I was always awake before it…

Is it possible you are subconsciously waking up and looking at the clock (or doing it consciously at the time but just not remembering it)? Sleep generally triggers some unique memory suppression mechanisms.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by yonaguska »

eloisius wrote: post #94
joshspankit wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a very similar experience of time, and have only now late life gotten some insight in to my past struggles with a ADHD diagnosis. Worth looking in to foooor sure.

I'd love to hear more. I've definitely lived with the downsides, but my experience with medicating for it as pre-teen was so negative that I have been extremely reticent to seek treatment since.

There's more to treatment than just medication. A good therapist specializing in ADHD will help you figure out how to build habits and processes to cope.

Re: 'Time Cells' Discovered in Human Brains

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Post by TheSpiceIsLife »

carapace wrote: post #79
basicplus2 wrote: post #21

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I had never heard of this.. Seems it is for relieving emotional stress but i had only used it specifically to wake up at a specific time. https://www.healthline.com/health/eft-tapping

EFT is unrelated to head tapping for setting internal wake up calls. In EFT you're tapping on the end points of the meridian lines to send a kind of "reset pulse" to clear emotional issues. (At least that's the concept.) To set a "wake up call" you (basicplus2) tap your head with your finger, but probably not on a meridian point, and you're not trying to clear an emotional issue. Also, some people tap their whole hea…

Ah right, thanks, I wasn’t sure if the two were related.
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