Entorhinal Cortexs and the Power of Luck

[unforth]

Do you know what an entorhinal cortex is? I didn't until about two minutes ago. I'm working on my story for Ni90, and I want a really esoteric sounding article from a Neuroscience journal to toss in to my story. I find "Artificial Synaptic Conductances Reduce Subthreshold Oscillations in Stellate Cells of the Entorhinal Cortex." This was pretty close to jibberish to me. However, to work it into my story right, I decide to look up a few of the technical terms. And I've been trying not to laugh ever since. I picked this article at random. Now, for those who don't know, my current wip is about a fellow suffering from near-total amnesia. So what IS the Entorhinal Cortex? "The entorhinal cortex (EC) is an important memory center in the brain." Thank you, Wikipedia. Go, luck, go! Heck, I think I might have just learned something about my super villain's super power. :)

Comments

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

Obviously your super villain's super power has nothing to do with spelling...they're cortices, dear ;)

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*duckandrunaway*
-- Gerardo

[unforth.livejournal.com]

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I'm utterly confused as to what I'm supposed to have misspelled (text messages not withstanding - I have too little patience to check spelling in those ;) ). Not a good sign for me, but it doesn't effect my Villain one way or the other.

[ultimabaka.livejournal.com]

hehe I'm just messin witcha babe...but they're not cortexs :). Thanks to hear that you don't love me enough to check the spelling in joo msgs, btw *huggle*

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was in the TITLE. Last night, I read the whole thing, and I was like, I didn't write "cortexs" anywhere! That's why I was confused. But now I see it. I never think to check the titles. ;)

[galiyah.livejournal.com]

neato- sometimes things in the universe collide in *just* the right way. enjoy writing your story- i'm looking forward to reading it.

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - I've been a bit shy about sharing my writing cause I don't feel like I'm all that good at it, but there's a teaser for this story here that I tossed up a few days ago. (http://unforth.livejournal.com/163696.html#cutid1)

[galiyah.livejournal.com]

That's alright if you don't want to share. I completely understand. :) I have read some of the snippets of things you've posted though, and I like them. Good luck with this one!

[unforth.livejournal.com]

Well, the only person I've shown the first novel to is my mom (and she hasn't even read it, grrr!) but the entire second novel (which is a Hogwarts sort-of fanfic based on a LARP I was in) is up in LJ - I shared it because a bunch of the people in LJ were involved in that game and therefore in my story. Really, I'm just afraid that showing people will work will pop my ego - I feel like I'm not good at it, but at the same time I want to hold on to the notion that I'm good enough, which leads to silly "I want people to tell me I write good but I'm afraid that they'll tell me I suck but I want constructive criticism but...but...but..." It's stupid stuff, really. I'm sure I'll get over it eventually. ;)