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4 days ago | 
medium.com | Joshua Chen |Mehmet Yildiz
Slow but meaningful beats fast but pointlessIn the modern world, it’s easy to lose life balance. I don’t mean just work-life balance. I mean balance in general. There are many different areas in life to balance. So many times, in the dogged pursuit of one thing, we let relationships fall by the wayside, or we fail to get enough sleep, or we neglect one of many other areas. People say that to find great success in something, you have to commit. And that’s true.
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2 months ago | 
nature.com | Joshua Chen |Robert Garcia |Ariadna Robledo |Joshua Woods |Fatima Alrashdan |Sean O’Leary | +7 more
Correction to: Nature Biomedical Engineering https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-024-01281-9, published online 11 November 2024. In the version of this article initially published, the Data availability section did not include the statement “The data that support the findings of this study are openly available via figshare at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.27616083” as is now amended in the HTML and PDF versions of the article. About this articleChen, J.C., Dhuliyawalla, A., Garcia, R. et al.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
medium.com | Joshua Chen
Some say that setting the tone for the day is important. Getting your day off to a good start makes the rest of the day that much more likely to be great. But why is this so? Isn’t the start just an arbitrary time? Anchoring bias suggests that people are most influenced by the first information they encounter. In a sense, they are “anchored” to that information. This is irrational because information could have been encountered in any order — but human beings are irrational.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
nature.com | Joshua Chen |Robert Garcia |Ariadna Robledo |Joshua Woods |Fatima Alrashdan |Sean O’Leary | +7 more
AbstractMinimally invasive neural interfaces can be used to diagnose, manage and treat many disorders, with reduced risks of surgical complications. However, endovascular probes lack access to key cortical, subcortical and spinal targets, and are not typically explantable after endothelialization. Here we report the development and testing, in sheep, of endocisternal neural interfaces that approach brain and spinal cord targets through inner and outer spaces filled with cerebrospinal fluid.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Joshua Chen |Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
medium.com | Joshua Chen |Mehmet Yildiz
Self-awareness is deeper than we realize. When one truly understands it, it can feel like an onion — endless layers to explore. The more you inquire, the deeper it gets; this becomes a superpower. We realize things in plain sight were deeper than we could’ve imagined. Take a statement such as “I’m afraid of vulnerability.” At a surface glance, one may think “What’s particularly insightful about this? This is a person with a personality trait.”It’s so much more than that.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 08244-5/abstract&sz=64)
redjournal.org | Diana Odhiambo |Allison Pittman |Alex Bassil |Joshua Chen
ABSTRACT Despite aggressive multimodal treatment that typically includes definitive or adjuvant radiation therapy (RT), locoregional recurrence rates approach 50% for patients with locally advanced human papillomavirus (HPV)-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Thus, more effective therapeutics are needed to improve patient outcomes. We evaluated the radiosensitizing effects of ATR inhibitor (ATRi) BAY 1895344 in preclinical models of HNSCC.
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Nov 25, 2023 | 
medium.com | Joshua Chen
Telling myself some stories before bedtime - does that work? I know from my work as a life coach how stories work. At TLCS, the academy I'm with, they teach us the CTFAR model. It goes like this:We have thoughts about circumstances. Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings drive us to take actions. Actions then have results. As I lay in bed, I know what's coming. I'm a veteran to these nights of overheard bombardments. Lights out a couple hours earlier than usual. I want the time to catch up on sleep.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
medium.com | Joshua Chen
I'd like to think of myself as a mind explorer. I have gone through countless iterations of techniques for mind management, thought capturing, improving memory. Through it all, the experience has taken place entirely in my head. Whoa, this is trippy, but fascinating, I would think. I would wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes. If this can be called a "place," is there a limit? Is it like a Minecraft world with parameters, or is it more like outer space, boundless?
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
medium.com | Joshua Chen
What is "wholeness"? Here's my take on it. Wholeness is when one's past, present, and future selves are connected. Let me postulate that we have a shallow understanding of these being connected. Instead, we have a masquerade of ruminating about the past and/or catastrophizing about the future. These occur as fragmented, broken, incoherent experiences in the mind. They seem more like just "things that happen to us" rather than things forming a sense of story.
