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Homepage of Goran Šimić / Mrežna stranica Gorana Šimića

Our ongoing project 4BrainFlames / Naš trenutni projekt 4BrainFlames

MSIE 2025 Intro to consciousness

KISN NTNU invited lecture "Anti-amyloid and anti-aging interventions" ppt March 31, 2025

APC vaučeri za objavljivanje u otvorenom pristupu (Open Access)!

Akademskih kvarat ure (o Uvodu u neuroznanost svijesti - prof. dr. sc. Mladenka Tkalčić)

Brain Mechanisms homepage

predstavljanje knjige na poziv prof. Darka Marčinka ppt

Uvod u neuroznanost svijesti

Can AI be conscious?

Transgeneracijska trauma - eksperimentalni modeli

How ASO works? (ppt) - ASO in AD 2023 (ppt) - ASO lowers tangles

My PhD students

The Cell 8th ed. Student Resources

Brain maps The human brain

Alzforum AlphaFold AlphaFold2

S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 ASD

MSIE NEUROLOGY INTRO REHEARSAL 139sotpF

CROSBI PubMed (NCBI) Google Scholar

Study of BioMedical Mathematics/Studij biomedicinske matematike

Understanding emotions

Self-domestication

Lokalizacija i narav svijesti / Localization and nature of consciousness - HDTMB kolokvij 23.III.2022. ppt

Uvod u neuroetiku

intervju Nacional 22.III.2022. web

Čitanje u fokusu: razgovor o knjizi Digitalna demencija Manfreda Spitzera 22.III.2022.

Recommendation for students: Marty Lobdell - Study less, study smart

Kavli lecture: Role of subputaminal nucleus in language: enigma of primary progressive aphasia solved? ppt

Synaptic pruning / Obrezivanje sinapsi Extraordinary neoteny of synaptic spines in the human prefrontal cortex

Učitelji u fokusu: vrijeme je za knjigu (Manfred Spitzer: Epidemija pametnih telefona)

Universitas br. 138 (travanj 2021.) intervju

Noć knjige 2021 - Svjetski dan knjige 23.4.2021.

Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease and the Precursors for Dementia – An In-Depth Discussion

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Učitelji u fokusu: vrijeme je za knjigu (Goran Šimić i suradnici: Uvod u neuroznanost emocija i osjećaja)

Što strah od potresa i korone radi našem mozgu?

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New Year's gift from Boston Dynamics

Parallel worlds

The dignified professor

Uvod u neuroznanost emocija i osjećaja. Naklada Ljevak: Zagreb, 2020.

Uvod u neuroznanost učenja i pamćenja. Naklada Ljevak: Zagreb, 2019.

AlphaZero's brilliancy and its importance for understanding the human brain:

Chess, a Drosophila of reasoning editorial Mastering board games A general reinforcement learning algorithm

my first brilliant move

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Learning and memory BAW public lecture 2019

Boli me glava - što ću?

My Google Scholar ScholarGPS

My ORCID My PubMed (NCBI)

My Publons My WoS My rG My exaly rankings

Croatian Medical Journal

My PhD students

Curriculum Vitae with the list of publications / Životopis s popisom radova

My NCBI bibliography / Popis radova NIH National Library of Medicine

The list of publications from Croatian Scientific Bibliography pages / Popis publikacija sa stranica Hrvatske znanstvene bibliografije

Publications from the Zagreb central medical library repository / Publikacije sa stranica elektronskog repozitorija Središnje medicinske knjižnice u Zagrebu

Recent research projects

"Role of blood-brain barrier, innate immunity, and tau protein oligomerization in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease" project of the Croatian Science Foundation grant no. IP-2019-04-3584 from 15 Jan 2020 - 14 Jan 2024 / Posjetite mrežne stranice projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost "Uloga krvno-moždane barijere, urođene imunosti i oligomerizacije tau proteina u patogenezi Alzheimerove bolesti" br. IP-2019-04-3584 koji se provodi u razdoblju od 15. siječnja 2020 - 14. siječnja 2024. godine

"Tau protein hyperphosphorylation, aggregation and trans-synaptic transfer in Alzheimer's disease: cerebrospinal fluid analysis and assessment of potential neuroprotective compounds" project of the Croatian Science Foundation grant no. IP-2014-09-9730 from 12 Oct 2015 - 11 Oct 2019 / Posjetite stranice projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost "Hiperfosforilacija, agregacija i transsinaptički prijenos tau proteina u Alzheimerovoj bolesti: analiza likvora i ispitivanje potencijalnih neuroprotektivnih spojeva" br. IP-2014-09-9730 koji se provodi u razdoblju od 12. listopada 2015 - 11. listopada 2019. godine

"Detection and tracking of biological markers for early therapeutic intervention in sporadic Alzheimer's disease" project of the Croatian Science Foundation grant no. 09/16 from 1st Jan 2012 - 31st Dec 2014 / Posjetite stranice projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost "Otkrivanje i praćenje bioloških biljega radi rane terapijske intervencije u sporadičnoj Alzheimerovoj bolesti" br. 09/16 provođenom u razdoblju od 1. siječnja 2012 - 31. prosinca 2014. godine

Some online tools

An interactive tool for calculating statistical power and sample size

Another online power calculator Another online sample size estimator

An interactive tool for calculating effect size An interactive tool for visualizing sex differences

Online Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Fourth Edition, by Michael Sullivan, III.

Experimental design ppt Significance calculator

Some older papers and presentations / Neki stariji radovi i prezentacije

Biological basis of emotions / Biološki temelji emocija

Primary and secondary headaches / Primarne i sekundarne glavobolje

Phosphorylation of tau proteins in development and Alzheimer's disease / Fosforilacija tau proteina u razvitku i Alzheimerovoj bolesti

CSF phosphorylated tau proteins as predictors of Alzheimer's disease in subjects with mild cognitive impairment / Prediktivna vrijednost fosforiliranih tau proteina u likvoru

pri postavljanju dijagnoze Alzheimerove bolesti u osoba s blagim kognitivnim oštećenjem

Pathogenesis of proximal autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy / Patogeneza proksimalne autosomno recesivne spinalne mišićne atrofije

Excerpt on spinal muscular atrophy from Hans J. ten Donkelaar's book Clinical Embryology (second editon, Springer, 2014)

Does Alzheimer's disease begin in the brainstem? / Da li Alzheimerova bolest započinje u moždanom deblu?

Pathogenesis of proximal autosomal recessive spinal muscular atrophy / Cover page JL

Abnormal motoneuron migration, differentiation and axon outgrowth in spinal muscular atrophy / Abnormalna migracija, diferencijacija i izrastanje aksona motoneurona u spinalnoj mišićnoj atrofiji

Endosomal location of dopamine receptors in neuronal cell cytoplasm / Smještaj dopaminskih receptora u endosomima citoplazme živčanih stanica

Apoptoza u neuromišićnim i neurodegenerativnim bolestima

Cerebrospinal fluid markers in differential diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia / Markeri iz cerebrospinalne tekućine u diferencijalnoj dijagnostici Alzheimerove bolesti i vaskularne demencije

Mitochondria morphology and DNA content upon sublethal exposure to beta-amyloid1-42 peptide / Morfologija i stanje DNA mitohondrija nakon subletalne ekspozicije peptidom beta-amiloida1-42

Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and measurement of tau epitopes of autopsy-proven sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in a patient with non-specific initial EEG, MRI and negative 14-3-3 immunoblot

Cerebrospinal fluid phosphorylated tau proteins as predictors of Alzheimer’s disease in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

Introduction to stereology

Uvod u neuromišićne bolesti

Cerebrospinal fluid phosphorylated tau proteins as predictors of Alzheimer's disease in subjects with mild cognitive impairment

CSF tau proteins in evaluation of patients with suspected dementia

Brain asymmetries related to language with special on entorhinal cortex and basal forebrain

Nucleus subputaminalis: Neglected part of the basal nucleus of Meynert

Hemispheric asymmetry, modular variability and age-related changes in the human entorhinal cortex

Pathological tau proteins in argyrophilic grain disease

nNOS expression in reactive astrocytes correlates with increased cell death related DNA damage in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex in Alzheimer's disease

Ultrastructural analysis and TUNEL demonstrate motor neuron apoptosis in Werdnig-Hoffmann disease

Nucleus subputaminalis (Ayala): The still disregarded magnocellular component of the basal forebrain may be human specific and connected with the cortical speech area

Volume and number of neurons of the human hippocampal formation in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease

Kolegij "Temelji neuroznanosti" / "Fundamentals of Neuroscience" course

Synopsis of functional neuroanatomy

Uvod u neuroanatomija ponašanja / Introduction to neuroanatomy of behavior (in Croatian)

Uvod u neurobiologiju demencija / Introduction to neurobiology of dementia (in Croatian)

Alzheimer's disease basics / Alzheimer's disease advanced

Imaging dementia intro (courtesy of dr. Ratimir Petrović) / Imaging methods intro (courtesy of dr. Christian Vollmar, LMU)

Neuropsychology of dementia

Personality traits, research and teaching text / Figure (scatterplot)

Kako bolje učiti? / How to learn successfully? (in Croatian)

Evolucija kooperativnog ponašanja / Evolution of cooperative behavior

Mapping memory in 3D and progression of Alzheimer's disease - National geographic

Introduction to cerebral cortex and functional anatomy - part I

Optical illusions Necker cube

Orientation columns (turn the speakers on!) - a gift from prof. Hubel Orientation columns 2 - a gift from prof. Grinwald

Color wheel Color names

Functional neuroanatomy - part II

Learning and memory H.M, N.A., R.B.

Henry Gustav Molaison dies at 82 (on 5th Dec 2008)

Forgetting curves Examples of the questions from the test

Left and right hemisphere (TED ideas worth spreading)

Six NDD cases - in Croatian

Six dementia cases to solve (AD, FLD, FTD, LBD, pseudodementia, VaD) - in English

Word processing (fMRI + MEG) left lateral view / left medial view / left ventral view (from Marinkovic K et al. 2004)

Chemical senses - addition

Uvod u osjetne sustave (S1)

Slušni i vestibularni (S2)

Vidni sustav (S3)

Stanja svijesti (P22) i bolesti ovisnosti (P23)

Mali mozak - dodatak (dr. Marko Čuljat)

old, but still useful educational material for students (unpack from MS-DOS command line in a new directory, e.g. 'neur', and start program by typing C:\neur\tbook neuron)

Kolegij Anatomija čovjeka / Anatomy course

Click here to find a particular eponym

Mehanizam gutanja (deglutition/swallowing)

CNS Intro I (Spartanburg Technical College) CNS Intro II (dr. Heather Townsend)

CNS Intro III (prof. Zdravko Petanjek) Intro IV head, neck, teeth

Intro V cervical spine Case neck

Cranial parasympathetic system (scheme) Cranial nerve III (scheme)

Cranial nerve V (scheme) Cranial nerves V and VII

Cranial nerve XII (ansa cervicalis scheme)

Moždane ovojnice i prostori (dobrotom dr. Peter Reilich-a, LMU)

Skull gross anatomy Temporal bone

Cranial nerves mnemonics

Popular posters, texts, presentations, links / Popularni posteri, tekstovi, prezentacije, poveznice

Mental fitness poster 10 early signs of Alzheimer's disease poster

NeuRI 2015 ppt Macro-and microstructure of cognitive processing

DO THE D.I.S.C.

Curiosity (from Carolina Koletic)

Interesting (neuro)science concepts

How to read and respond to a rejection letter

Journal of Comparative Neurology - Passages 2018

Croatian Societies for Alzheimer's disease / Hrvatska udruga za Alzheimerovu bolest

Bizarre Christmas musician

Test your RBF: HERE

Unloading the bricks from the boat in Bangladesh

Brilliant Sun Tzu "The Art of War"

Singing inside an MRI (link provided by dr. Mario Lušić)

Children learn what they live - a poem by Dorothy Law Nolte

Nice intro into the neuroeconomics (by Dante Monique Pirouz)

Distances (by NASA)

Movies on the brain (from Jacobson and Marcus)

Writing a scientific paper (from Vernon Booth)

Writing your doctoral dissertation (from R. S. Brause)

Great site for synaesthetes to start from (are you the one?)

Alien hand syndrome after callosotomy

Split brain with one half atheist and one half theist The bystander effect

Split brain behavioral experiments intro More from Gazzaniga on Right Brain vs Left Brain

palmomental reflex testing palmomental reflex positive

Stress1 Stress2

Hipokampus i pamćenje stari tekst

Poslijediplomski studij "Neurobiologija starenja" / Postgraduate course "Neurobiology of aging"

Izborni predmet "Učenje i pamćenje" / Elective course "Learning and memory"

Try inducing theta waves in the hippocampus for yourself: Listen to low-frequency noises for 10 minutes before learning (ideally with your eyes closed to create alpha waves in posterior cortical regions) and see if you can learn and recall better (feedback welcome):

short version (2 min. 19 sec.) - download HERE / longer version (9 min. 9 sec.) - download HERE

last updated on 16th Nov 2024 / stranica zadnji put obnovljena 16. studenog 2024.

Hvala na posjeti - Thank you for coming!

poveznica na moje stare stranice (iz kasnih '90-tih i malo poslije) / link to my old pages (from '90s and somewhat later)

e-mail me / piši mi

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