<story><title>Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/are-there-bacteria-in-your-brain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I’ve studied schizophrenia for virtually my whole professional career. I do that by looking at synaptic differences and pathology that might be present in schizophrenic post-mortem brains. Over the years I would see these unknown objects, and disregard them. Then I had an undergraduate student who was part of an honors program here at the University of Alabama, Courtney Walker. She was studying the substantia nigra, which is a region of the brain that contains dopamine neurons. She kept seeing these objects—we called them “those things”—and kept poking at the problem. It started to become a lab obsession.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many aspiring scientists view their lack of experience as a problem to be solved.&lt;p&gt;But as this case shows, inexperience can be an asset. Not being entirely convinced of what&amp;#x27;s impossible is a critical component of making discoveries. The longer you&amp;#x27;re in a field, the harder it is to maintain skepticism about the impossible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Scientists Find Gut Bacteria in the Human Brain</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/are-there-bacteria-in-your-brain</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>merricksb</author><text>Different article in different publication about the same topic, discussed here 22 days ago:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18431850&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=18431850&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>