#sfn14

Got books on the brain? Why not get some books on the brain? (Work it out.)

The 2014 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting is taking place November 15-19 in Washington D.C. If you’re attending the meeting, stop by booth 200 to check out these books and more.

Concussion Care Manual: A Practical Guide by David L Brody

Rhythms of the Brain by Gyorgy Buzsaki

The Aesthetic Brain: How We Evolved to Desire Beauty and Enjoy Art by Anjan Chatterjee

The OMICs: Applications in Neuroscience edited by Giovanni Coppola

Cajal’s Butterflies of the Soul: Science and Art by Javier DeFelipe

Ignorance: How It Drives Science by Stuart Firestein

Consciousness and the Social Brain by Michael S. A. Graziano

Introduction to Neuropsychopharmacology by Leslie Iversen, Susan D. Iversen, Floyd E. Bloom, and Robert H. Roth

Plants and the Human Brainby David O. Kennedy

Neuroglia, 3rd Edition edited by Helmut Kettenmann and Bruce R. Ransom

Integrated Neuroscience and Neurology: A Clinical Case History Problem Solving Approach, 2nd Editionby Elliott M. Marcus, Stanley Jacobson, and Thomas Sabin

Drugged: The Science and Culture Behind Psychotropic Drugs by Richard J. Miller

The Oxford Handbook of Attention edited by Kia Nobre and Sabine Kastner

The First Brain: The Neuroscience of Planarians by Oné R. Pagán

The Altruistic Brain: How We Are Naturally Good by Donald W. Pfaff

Angelo Mosso's Circulation of Blood in the Human Brain edited with commentary by Marcus E. Raichle and Gordon M. Shepherd

Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan, Second Edition by Larry W. Swanson

Neuroanatomical Terminology: A Lexicon of Classical Origins and Historical Foundations by Larry Swanson

The Brain Supremacy: Notes from the frontiers of neuroscience by Kathleen Taylor          

Why Humans Like to Cry: Tragedy, Evolution, and the Brain by Michael Trimble

Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings, 2nd Edition by Gary L. Wenk

Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey M. Zacks

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be one of the Society for Neuroscience’s official bloggers during the 2014 Annual Meeting, starting this Saturday November 15 in Washington DC. What does it mean? Essentially, that the SfN links to my blog (I will also try and cross-post on the SfN’s own platform, NeurOnLine–see here, for instance). Note that I’m also an editor for the PLOS Neuroscience Community,…

Hi all!

SfN starts this week and I'm super excited to be participating again :) This year I will be covering Development, Cognition and Behavior. Stay tuned and please click on the link for a complete list of meeting bloggers. 

If you're attending the meeting and would like me to write about your poster or talk- contact me!

I'd also like to thank SfN for giving me one of the 2014 SfN Graduate Student Travel Awards. So stoked about attending the Women in Neuroscience luncheon and hearing Marian Joels' talk!

This year I will be presenting on Saturday (11/15) and Tuesday (11/18):

Saturday: Travel Award Poster Session from 6:30PM-8:30PM. Here I will be presenting my talk in poster form. 

Tuesday: 

8:00AM (Nanosymposium)- 492.01. Paradoxical neurobehavioral rescue by cues associated with infant trauma: Amygdala serotonin (5-HT) and corticosterone (CORT)

8:00AM- 12:00PM (Poster)- 498.03/B54 - Developmental disruption of rat social behavior following early life abuse is mediated by the amygdala and rescued by environmental enrichment