I am having a wonderful time researching and writing a review on our understanding of epilepsy and brain stimulation. It is fascinating to read the literature in chronological order. You can see discrete stages in which the shared mental frameworks used to describe neurophysiologic phenomena evolve. During the 80s, the Lyapunov exponential method was en vogue, using oscillatory states to describe seizures. More complex and dynamic models then emerged. Now, machine learning algorithms are permeating the literature. I find it interesting how the scientific community is open to increasingly complex and less elegant descriptions of neuronal activities, likely since simpler models cannot reproduce what we see in nature. I am excited to see what the next decade will bring to our mental frameworks and the language we use to discuss these topics.

I enrolled in a course on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Biomedicine. In doing my research for a novel project, I stumbled across this company: Cerebral Therapeutics. I believe they are bringing to market an implantable device that provides anti-seizure medication directly to the brain. It looks like Mark Cook is helping them with feasibility of the device. It is an exciting prospect, and I believe there could be many new applications, and potential iterations of such a device.

I created this applescript to create a link back to the source email. I can then use the apple mail rules to filter known actionable emails to Reminders, and archive them from Apple Mail:

using terms from application "Mail"
    on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
        set ReminderList to "Inbox"
        tell application "Mail"
            repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
                set emailSubject to (subject of eachMessage)
                set recieveDate to (date received of eachMessage)
                set messageid to (message id of eachMessage)
                set urlText to "message://" & "%3c" & messageid & "%3e"
                tell application "Reminders"
                    set whichList to list ReminderList
                    tell whichList
                        make new reminder with properties {name:emailSubject, remind me date:recieveDate, body:urlText}
                    end tell
                end tell
                display notification ("Set reminder for '" & emailSubject & "' due: " & recieveDate)
            end repeat
        end tell
    end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from

Let me know if it worked for you!