SfN 2014 Archives - Knowing Neurons

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Neural Stem Cells

November 18, 2014March 5, 2017 Anita Fiona Doetsch, Neural Progenitor Cells, Neural Stem Cells, Neuroepithelial Cells, Neurogenesis, Pluripotency, Potency, Presidential Lecture, Radial Glial Cells, Self-Renewal, SfN14, SfN2014, Society for Neuroscience, Stem Cell Niche, subgranular zone, Totipotency, Ventral-Subventricular zone

Stem cells have two characteristic and essential properties: Self-renewal. They can divide to give rise to another stem cell. Potency. They are capable of differentiating into specialized cells.… Read more

Movement Neuro News SfN 2014

Smooth Move: How GABAergic Interneurons Regulate Skilled Motor Behavior

November 16, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw Afferent Sensory Neurons, Alex Honnold, Efferent Motor Neurons, GABA, GABAergic neurons, GAD2, inhibitory, Interneuron, Microcircuit, motor neuron, Nature, Oscillation, Presynaptic inhibition, Proprioception, SfN14, Spinal cord, Thomas Jessel

In early 2014, the American free-solo rock climber Alex Honnold climbed 2,500 feet of limestone without ropes. The demanding route called El Sendero Luminoso in El Potrero Chico, Mexico required… Read more

Neuro News SfN 2014 Sleep

WIDE AWAKE at #SfN14

November 15, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Amita Sehgal, Awake, Brain, Circadian, Circuits, Clock, Cycle, Drosophila, Fruit fly, GABA, HHMI, Johns Hopkins, Large ventrolateral neurons, Neurons, SfN14, Sha Liu, Sleep, WAKE, Wide awake, Wu Lab

There’s always one person snoring through the talk you’re trying to listen to at SfN. That person might even be you at some point during this meeting! Whether you are… Read more

Movement Neuro News Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

What Zebrafish Teach Us About Touch

November 12, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 2014, Corollary discharge, Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Glycine, Interneuron, Laura Kngloer, Motor, Movements, Neuron, Reflex, Sensory, SfN14, Zebrafish

Unlike the sense of vision, which is perceived only by light-sensitive photoreceptors in our eyes, the mechanoreceptors that respond to light touch are located in sensory neurons all over the… Read more

Did You Know? Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Science with a Touch of Art: A Conversation with David Ginty

November 10, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber @KnowingNeurons, Art, Brainstem, Creativity, Grad School, Intuition, Mechanosensory, Neurons, Organization, Postdoc, Sense, Sensory, SfN14, Spinal cord, Touch

[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176184172″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] If you think about it, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of tactile receptors. The dozens… Read more

Brain Basics Did You Know? Popular Articles SfN 2014

Inhibitory Neurons: Keeping the Brain’s Traffic in Check

November 5, 2014March 5, 2017 knowingneurons 5HT3aR, Basket cells, Epilepsy, Feedforward inhibition, GABAergic neurons, Inhibitory Interneurons, Interneurons, Martinotti cells, Parvalbumin, Reelin, SfN, SfN14, Somatostatin, Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Imagine that you’re driving down a road undeterred, no red lights or stop signs to slow you down. While that may seem like a very exciting idea, it is obviously… Read more

Brain Basics Brain Development Interviews SfN 2014

Science Fiction, Serendipity and Interneuron Specification: A Conversation with Dr. Gordon J. Fishell

November 3, 2014March 5, 2017 Anita Conversation, Excitation, GABA, glutamate, Gordon Fishell, Graduate School, Inhibition, Interneuron, Interview, NYU, Presidential Lecture, Research, SfN, SfN14

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Brain Basics Did You Know? Popular Articles SfN 2014

Hubel and Wiesel & the Neural Basis of Visual Perception

October 29, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber 1981, Activity, Columns, David Hubel, Electrophysiology, Neurons, Neuroscience, Nobel Prize, Recording, SfN14, Topographical map, Torsten Wiesel, Vision, Visual, Visual cortex

Snap! Crackle! Pop! Those are the sounds that Professors David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel heard in the early 1950s when they recorded from neurons in the visual cortex of a… Read more

Did You Know? Interviews Sensation and Perception SfN 2014

Understanding the Visual System: A Conversation with Botond Roska

October 27, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Blind, Botond Roska, Circuits, Computational, Cortex, David Hubel, Neural, Neuroscience, Retina, See, Sense, SfN14, Sight, Thalamus, Vision, Visual

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Did You Know? Interviews SfN 2014

From Stevens to Synapses: A Conversation with Kelsey Martin

October 22, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw and Synapses, Conversation, DNA, Eric Kandel, gene, Interview, Kelsey C. Martin, Kelsey Martin, Learning, M.D./Ph.D., Memory, Neurons, Peace Corps., Plasticity, SfN14, Synapse, Synapses, The Living Record of Memory: Genes, UCLA

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Brain Basics Did You Know? Neuro News SfN 2014

Getting Technical: Methods in Neuroscience

October 15, 2014March 5, 2017 Anita Biology, Brain, BRAIN Initiative, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, Electrophysiology, fMRI, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Genetics, Molecular, Neuroscience, Optogenetics, PET, Positron emission tomography, SfN, SfN14, Single-cell recording, Spatial, Technology, Temporal, TMS, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulaion

It is an exciting time for neuroscience. The BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) is in the spotlight as a part of the new Presidential focus and recently… Read more

Neuro News SfN 2014

Get Ready for #SfN14 with #KnowingNeurons

October 8, 2014March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Annual Meeting, Education, Infographic, Neuroscience, SfN, SfN14, Society for Neuroscience

This is an exciting time for neuroscience! The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine was just awarded to three neuroscientists “for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system… Read more

Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2013 by Knowing Neurons

Neuro News SfN 2014

The Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2013

November 9, 2013March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber @KnowingNeurons, 2013, Brain Awareness, BrainFacts.org, Conference, Infographic, Journal of Neuroscience, Meeting, Neuroscience, SfN, SfN13, Society for Neuroscience

This is BIG week for neuroscience! Each year more than 30,000 neuroscientists from more than 80 countries come together in the largest scientific meeting in the world! At the Society… Read more