Timeline for Can the neuronal firing rate be increased through medication/diet?
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 10:06 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCogSci/status/496960526887686144 | ||
| Jul 21, 2014 at 7:19 | comment | added | anongoodnurse | The simple answer is yes, medications can increase firing rate. The reason that it's a bad idea is called a seizure, which is the end result of too much increase. People die from too-fast firing (status epilepticus -> brain swelling -> death) or too-slow firing -> coma -> ?death. | |
| Jul 21, 2014 at 0:16 | answer | added | Nick Stauner | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 15:32 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jul 16, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | user3832 | It's too difficult to tell what your asking to give an answer. Is this about cognition or feeling management or any specific brain processes? | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 23:30 | comment | added | FraserOfSmeg | @Eoin, thanks for this. I'm way outside my area of expertise so constructive criticism goes a long way! | |
| Jun 26, 2014 at 22:53 | comment | added | Eoin | As far as I remember, it's the conductance velocity of neurons, not firing speed, which is important. I can't get the reference now, but look for something by Cooper, or McCrorie, or some combination of the two. | |
| Jun 25, 2014 at 14:41 | comment | added | Louis Thibault | @FraserOfSmeg, yours is a bit of a tricky and ambiguous question. What are you calling "increase in firing rate"? Are you referring to a specific spectral band, or are you talking about every-damn-neuron in the CNS? If it's the later, then it's going to be very hard to measure. To further complicate the issue, certain neurons are inhibitory, so increasing their firing-rates will decrease the firing-rate of their neighbors. I strongly doubt that a medication can affect the global firing rate of the brain, but it's also damn hard to measure. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 20:05 | history | edited | Nick Stauner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:51 | comment | added | FraserOfSmeg | @jona that was more of a passing comment. I'm interested in both what may increase the speed and what the effect of increasing the speed would be. Two separate questions really, I didn't want to confuse the two. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:44 | comment | added | jona | "I would assume increase neuronal firing would allow for faster processing capability" <- Don't assume that. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:41 | comment | added | FraserOfSmeg | I would assume increase neuronal firing would allow for faster processing capability. I agree it wouldn't directly lead to an increase in the processing capacity, but that's somewhat beside the point. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 19:19 | comment | added | honi | Why would you want to increase neuronal firing rate? That wouldn't necessarily lead to an increase in processing capacity. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:38 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:23 | comment | added | FraserOfSmeg | This is my first question on the site, so please let me know if I need to include more information/change the question in some way. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 15:22 | history | asked | FraserOfSmeg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |