re: " do you have a background in medicine-biotechnology "
Actually electrical. Electronic R&D design work early on then programming of late. Factory Automation, Controller and Robotic programming and Integration. Recently retired.
A few years back I became interested in neural nets for a while. I have "C" source code around here somewhere for a very realistic-acting software cockroach based on neural net modeling which was a lot of fun to experiment with. A neuron can basically be modeled as an array of (charge) comparators coupled to a mono-stable. You could build a brain out of discreet components for truly parallel logic, but you would quickly end up with something the size of a house for even a tiny brain. Then there are the interconnections. The thresholds for firing a neuron are also quite fine. So anyway, I think that I can claim to know something about neurons.
Early solid-state control systems were based on parallel logic (sometimes called "random logic" - (oxymoron, I know :) )). Ironically, these early systems were more like living nervous systems than the present, which are based in sequential logic.
It looks like it takes more than a basic grasp of chemistry to understand receptor interactions with internal cell dynamics but I have spent a lot of time studying the topic, researched a lot of companies, the disease, and as it relates to this company. I concluded that Anavex has the best goods.
I would expect anyone who reads through the literature to come to similar conclusion although my approach to understanding tends to come from an electrical (control systems) perspective.
