New neurons' fleeting flexibility

Fleeting images: a new look at early emotion discrimination.

The visual brain quickly sorted stimuli for emotional impact despite high-speed presentation (3 or 5 per s) in a sustained, serial torrent of 700 complex pictures. Event-related potentials, recorded with a dense electrode array, showed selective discrimination of emotionally arousing stimuli from less affective content. Primary sources of this activation were over the occipital cortices, extend...

The Occasion Fleeting

Fleeting Activation of Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors Sensitizes Cortical Neurons to Complement Attack

Insidious attack of cortical neurons by complement has been implicated in Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Excitotoxicity, triggered by excessive activation of glutamate receptors, has been implicated in neuronal death following diverse insults, including ischemia and seizures. Clinical studies suggested that a minimal excitotoxic insult might sensitize neurons to complement at...

Information in Fleeting Opportunities

This paper focuses on the study of information in fleeting opportunities. An application example is the evaluation of business proposals by venture capitalists. The authors formulate the generic problem as a dynamic program where the decision maker can either accept a given deal directly, reject it directly, or seek further information on its potential and then decide whether to accept it or no...

Fleeting Social Ties

Fleeting Social Ties addresses the need for real time locationbased services for gaining a local’s perspective about a particular city. Tourist guides are often clichéd and do not address the genuine business traveler’s or vacationer’s desire to experience local and authentic culture as individuals native to that location. This application seeks to bridge this gap by creating fleeting social ti...