The butcher and lepidopterist
Dec 30, 2012
Gray Matters
A long time ago, I heard that my great uncle — he was only referred to as Uncle Sepp — collected butterflies. Someone in my family mentioned it.
Only About.com WebMD and Mayo Clinic?
Feb 11, 2011
Gray Matters
Health information online—should we worry about hypochondriacs or rather hypocrisy? In the NYT Magazine, Virginia Heffernan offers a critical
Superheros fight migraines wearing tinted goggles and Calvin Klein underwear
Jan 28, 2011
Gray Matters
Migraine in the US sports news—a great opportunity to raise awareness about this widespread disease. An opportunity missed for German players, who
A deluxe brain feels no pain
Jan 1, 2011
Gray Matters
In Berlin, a new Collaborative Research Centre “Control of self-organizing nonlinear systems” is set up. One focus will be on mathematical
Top down physiology
Aug 7, 2010
Gray Matters
Nature repeatedly reinvented certain control strategies shared among different body systems to maintain our physiological machinery. Each strategy
Physiology organized by major body systems
Aug 5, 2010
Gray Matters
It may seems stubbornly self-centered, but it does make sense to organize physiology by the major human body systems. In fact in Europe, the minimum
What is physiology?
Aug 4, 2010
Gray Matters
I am a physiologist. This is my outing in three parts. First, I will show that you cannot get easily an answer to What is physiology? In a second
Math Matters, Apply It To Neurology
Jan 30, 2010
Gray Matters
Mathematics is as sharp as a scalpel and cuts brain malfunctioning into pieces. The first part of my title is copied from an awareness campaign of
Migraine and Chaos
Nov 25, 2009
Gray Matters
Neural dynamics in the brain during migraine attacks is actually not chaotic but a self-organising pattern formation process. Chaos, that is, a
Gray matters
Nov 23, 2009
Gray Matters
Theoretical physics and clinical neurology are as distant as black and white for you? Well, maybe. But than we need gray. Gray matters. June 11, I