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From the Internet’s Beginnings to Our Understanding of Consciousness, This Editor Has Seen It All

2025/4/18
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Gary Stix: 我在Scientific American的35年职业生涯见证了互联网从无到有,以及神经科学领域的巨大进步。我早期的报道涵盖了互联网的兴起以及它如何改变信息传播和人们的生活方式,当时AOL被认为是领先者,这如今看来非常有趣。我还报道了各种技术,从磁悬浮列车到基因专利,以及新技术的市场化过程。在2000年代,我开始关注神经科学,撰写了关于认知增强药物和大脑上传等话题的文章。2010年前后,我开始专注于神经科学报道,这与奥巴马脑计划的启动相吻合。神经科学研究中仍存在许多未解之谜,例如大脑中所有细胞类型的完整图谱和大脑连接图谱。我关注“迷你大脑”(脑类器官)的研究,认为其可以弥补传统神经科学研究的不足。脑类器官研究可以帮助理解人类神经疾病,因为小鼠模型在许多方面存在缺陷。目前实验室培养的脑类器官并不具有意识或感知能力。神经科学未来的发展趋势包括深部脑刺激技术在更多神经精神疾病中的应用、脑机接口技术以及对意识本质的探索。神经科学的最终目标是理解意识的本质。神经退行性疾病(如阿尔茨海默病)的研究取得了进展,包括诊断方法和药物治疗,但仍需进一步努力才能找到治愈方法。用于治疗神经精神疾病的药物,例如治疗抑郁症和双相情感障碍的药物,大多是比较老的药物,需要开发新的药物。

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Senior mind and brain editor Gary Stix has covered the breadth of science and technology over the past 35 years at Scientific American. He joins host Rachel Feltman to take us through the rise of the Internet and the acceleration of advancement in neuroscience that he’s covered throughout his time here. Stix retired earlier this month, and we’d like to thank him for his intellect, inquisitiveness and inspiring run at Scientific American! 

Read some of Gary Stix’s recent coverage of neuroscience and psychology:

Even Four-Year-Olds Instinctively Fact-Check for Misinformation https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/even-four-year-olds-instinctively-fact-check-for-misinformation/

You Don’t Need Words to Think https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-need-words-to-think/)

Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wikipedia-searches-reveal-differing-styles-of-curiosity/

E-mail us at [email protected]) if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover!

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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Naeem Amarsy and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman with guest (and now retired senior editor!) Gary Stix. Our show is edited by Alex Sugiura with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith.

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