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Margaret McCarthy Is Full of Surprises!

Margaret McCarthy Is Full of Surprises!

Origins of Sex Differences in the Brain
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Rayna M HarrisDec 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?
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Erin YeagleDec 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”.
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Ashley JuavinettDec 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…
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IlluminaNov 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!
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Rayna M HarrisNov 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…
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Emilie ReasNov 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…
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Lina JamisNov 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…
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Sheida RabipourNov 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.
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Rachel ZamzowNov 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…
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Emilie ReasNov 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…
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Lina JamisNov 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.
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Pierre MégevandNov 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…
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Erin YeagleNov 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…
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Adam FeinmanNov 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
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Sheida RabipourNov 17, 2014
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