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Margaret McCarthy Is Full of Surprises!
Margaret McCarthy Is Full of Surprises!
Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
Rayna M Harris
Dec 17, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Leonhard Schilbach on the “dark matter” of social neuroscience
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Leonhard Schilbach on the “dark matter” of social neuroscience
Do we think about others differently when we interact with them, rather than just watching?
Erin Yeagle
Dec 12, 2014
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@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Thalamocortical Loops… but, why?
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Thalamocortical Loops… but, why?
Neuroanatomists have recognized the thalamus for century, but the only function we’ve been able to ascribe to it is a “relay” or a “gate”.
Ashley Juavinett
Dec 3, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Genes and Environment Interaction during Development: Redox Imbalance…
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Genes and Environment Interaction during Development: Redox Imbalance…
As with many neuropsychiatric disorders, the contributions of environmental risk factors and genetic underpinnings in schizophrenia are not…
Illumina
Nov 28, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Tips for Thriving in Your Research Career
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Tips for Thriving in Your Research Career
Advice on mentoring, training, publishing, grants, and more!
Rayna M Harris
Nov 19, 2014
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#PLOS #SfN14 Highlights: Exercise, Energy Intake and the Brain
#PLOS #SfN14 Highlights: Exercise, Energy Intake and the Brain
This Thanksgiving, many of us will be manipulating our energy balance — in one way or another. Most will be building our energy stores with…
Emilie Reas
Nov 25, 2014
#PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Food for Thought: Tastes, Aromas, and Memories of Food, Bryan…
#PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Food for Thought: Tastes, Aromas, and Memories of Food, Bryan…
Bryan Voltaggio is not a neuroscientist. At least not by traditional standards. But his intimate understanding of the way in which our…
Lina Jamis
Nov 23, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Q&A with Mahzarin Banaji, featured lecturer
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Q&A with Mahzarin Banaji, featured lecturer
Do you perceive all people as equal? Are you able to judge the character and potential of others based solely on merit, and not physical…
Sheida Rabipour
Nov 22, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Gut Microbes and the Brain: Paradigm Shift in Neuroscience?
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Gut Microbes and the Brain: Paradigm Shift in Neuroscience?
The focus of John Cryan’s work weighs about three pounds and controls almost everything we do, but it’s not the brain.
Rachel Zamzow
Nov 21, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Intracranial EEG and Brain Stimulation
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 Highlights: Intracranial EEG and Brain Stimulation
Despite their many advantages, traditional tools to study neurocognitive function in humans, such as EEG or fMRI, carry several…
Emilie Reas
Nov 18, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Surprising Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Surprising Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
Men are from Mars, and women are from Venus, as the old adage goes. It’s a silly expression but it attempts to illustrate that men and…
Lina Jamis
Nov 17, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Oscillations: EEG (poster session)
Here are highlights from a couple of posters (three, actually) that I had the opportunity to discuss with their authors.
Pierre Mégevand
Nov 17, 2014
Introducing “Toward Naturalistic Interactive Neuroimaging,” Part II: Conversation with Uri Hasson
Introducing “Toward Naturalistic Interactive Neuroimaging,” Part II: Conversation with Uri Hasson
A professor in Princeton University’s psychology department, Hasson will be one of five speakers in tomorrow morning’s symposium “Toward…
Erin Yeagle
Nov 17, 2014
The Translational Session of the TCMC Satellite — Part 2#SfN14
One of the hallmarks of the movement disorder ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) is that patients have “saccadic hypometria”, or short saccades…
Adam Feinman
Nov 16, 2014
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Mind, Brain, and the Ethics of Intergroup Behavior
@PLOSNeuro #SfN14 highlights: Mind, Brain, and the Ethics of Intergroup Behavior
“Think of discrimination not as an act of harm against out-groups, but as an act of help towards in-groups.” – M. R. Banaji
Sheida Rabipour
Nov 17, 2014
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