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MAY THE BREATH BE WITH YOU, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMIILIES AND ALL THOSE WHO ENCOURAGE YOUR CURIOSITY, YOUR CONFIDENCE, AND YOUR POTENTIAL TO LEARN, TO TRANSFORM, TO HEAL.
Synaptically yours,
Dr. G., Founding Director, The George Greenstein Institute, dedicated to creating a [...]

The Platform: Society for Neuroscience 8 Core Concepts
The Twitter: The Human Brain….it gets curiouser and curiouser!
The Big Idea:  Curiosity is the natural province of the human brain!  
Of the 8 Core Concepts put forward recently by the Society for Neuroscience, Concepts 7 & 8 may be the most important to drive home, not just to kids [...]

The Platform: The Society for Neuroscience: 8 Core Concepts

The Twitter: Hey! Do you know the core concepts of neuroscience?
The Big Idea: Teach 8 core concepts of neuroscience and watch for the tranformation of science and culture at large!
As previously noted on this blog, The Society for Neuroscience has a noble vision: Identify [...]

The Platform: The Society for Neuroscience: 8 Core Concepts

The Twitter: Hey! Do you know the core concepts of neuroscience?
The Big Idea: Teach 8 core concepts of neuroscience and watch for the tranformation of science and culture at large!
As previously noted on this blog, The Society for Neuroscience has a noble vision: Identify [...]

The Platform:  Society for Neuroscience: The 8 Core Concepts
The Twitter:  Pssst: The brain is the most complex organ in the human body.
The Big Idea:  If the brain is the body’s most complex organ, bring on the methods of complexity analysis and think neurotechnology!
The frontier of 21st century neuroscience and neurotechnology can be easily likened to cowboy [...]

The Platform: Neuroscience 2008: Expanding Brain Awareness
The Twitter: ” I’m aware. Are You?” Brain Awareness Week 2009
The Big Idea: Neuroscience 2108: What will we know? How do we get there?

To an audience of young neuroscientists and neuro-leaders gathered to learn more about Brain Awareness Week 2009 (March 16-22), incoming [...]

The Twitter: “We remember to sleep so we can sleep to remember!” — William Fishbein
The Big Idea: Sleep is a prime protagonist in the story of neurogenesis!

Sleep. Aaah, what a beautiful thing!
Yet when we mere mortals are deprived of our zzzzss, we get cranky and frustrated, if not downright nasty in negotiating simple [...]

The Twitter:  Nurture your Nature!
The Big Idea: Neuro-Plasticity is critical to neurogenesis (But when and how?)

Allow me to start with a question:  How many of you really believe that “exercise” can change your brain?  How many of you have already adapted yourselves to a non-fast food diet of low fat, low sugar, low volume eating [...]

Day 4 of this mega conference (and that’s not counting the week prior of workshops and pre-con lectures!)
In light of the question I posed yesterday regarding the introduction of network theory into neuroscience:
The answer:  Neuroscientists appear to point to their own history as well to the onset of computational and imaging technology.  As was noted [...]

A quick post during a simulated lunch break:
What’s hot at Neuroscience 2008? Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll.
Let’s decode the ’60’s motif in terms of 21st century interests:
Sex: Neuroscientists are busy looking at neuropeptides and their effects on mating and long term animal bonding and attachment practices. It seems oxytocin and vasopressin release in [...]