thegreenhand
Bluelight Crew
Why did this field die seemingly die out ?
It seems like after the 60s (correct me if I’m wrong pls), this vein of research fell out of fashion.
The sad thing to me is that high powered computing was not nearly as accessible then as it is for neuroscientists now.
One physician recalls: “To quantify the changes, we hand-measured the width (frequency) and the height (amplitude) of each wave in six artifact-free 10-s epochs using a ruler and calipers. This procedure was tedious and at best, bracketed degrees of change as ‘high’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘low’. Independent clinical assessments rated behavior as ‘much improved’, ‘improved’ and ‘unimproved’.”
Julia, python, and matlab can obviously do much more than that nowadays
Was it a similar phenomenon to psychedelic research dying out ? Society writ large no longer tolerated drug studies like they once did, and the funding dried up?
Or was it just not as promising as its proponents claimed… it seems some labs in Europe still are engaged in active research, but in the US it seems largely dead
If anyone has literature recommendations in these topics, I’d certainly be interested
It seems like after the 60s (correct me if I’m wrong pls), this vein of research fell out of fashion.
The sad thing to me is that high powered computing was not nearly as accessible then as it is for neuroscientists now.
One physician recalls: “To quantify the changes, we hand-measured the width (frequency) and the height (amplitude) of each wave in six artifact-free 10-s epochs using a ruler and calipers. This procedure was tedious and at best, bracketed degrees of change as ‘high’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘low’. Independent clinical assessments rated behavior as ‘much improved’, ‘improved’ and ‘unimproved’.”
Julia, python, and matlab can obviously do much more than that nowadays
Was it a similar phenomenon to psychedelic research dying out ? Society writ large no longer tolerated drug studies like they once did, and the funding dried up?
Or was it just not as promising as its proponents claimed… it seems some labs in Europe still are engaged in active research, but in the US it seems largely dead
If anyone has literature recommendations in these topics, I’d certainly be interested
