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can someone build a script that extracts the names of all this stuff like neurotransmitters, messengers, proteins, hormones and visualizes their amounts per metabolism around/at the time of the measured effect/observed behavior and or during the time of conditioning -- when stimulating (chemical, physical, psychological) measures were taken? a table to start with would be fine.

please? all that lingo is above my pay-grade



No, not really. It is difficult to measure because the tissue is delicate and the scale is very, very small.

You can look at my citation manager for some educational resources on the topic however https://www.zotero.org/i_o/collections/C2QRMIZE

But I would mostly recommend a neuroscience textbook. The following link is to the entry discussing what a neurotransmitter is so I think you'll find it immediately interesting https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10957/

In general neurotransmitters trigger a response in the target neuron by interacting with a channel embedded in the cell wall. This can trigger a change in the target cell if the triggered channel causes a protein to be released, or it can be an input signal used by the target to determine whether or not it should fire and pass a signal (through the medium of neurotransmitters) on to the neurons it itself targets.

If you are interested in the topic I strongly recommend creating a personal glossary for yourself. That textbook I linked has one I believe, and that ncbi domain has many other useful resources. There is a lot of simple sentences whose meaning is obscured purely because of a deficit of vocabulary, once you get some definitions down then a lot of medical texts really open up.


I believe this may be called neuroscience.


Strikes me that parent comment wants to see a knowledge graph constructed. Could be done for a lot of fields, and would be effectively named for the field they describe, like 'neuroscience' in the example you illustrated.


I’m sure the whole fold will fit into a cute infographic!


Give this a whirl:

https://chatgpt.com/share/6813d85a-4d20-800f-881a-9b6133281d...

I fed it the article and asked for a python sim.


Ask Google Deep Research, I'm sure it will do a good enough job




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