How many love songs have you heard that mention the brain? Heartache and heartbreak are the shorthand for romantic unhappiness, a racing heart indicates excitement, but no English expression I am aware of links the emotions to the brain. On the contrary, language assigns emotions to almost any organ except…
Stanford Professor Dr. John Ioannidis has made some waves over the last few years. His best-known work is a 2005 paper titled “Why most published research findings are false.”(1) It turns out that Ioannidis is not one to mince words. In the May 2013 issue of Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Ioannidis…
Tales from Lab Meeting I’d like to conduct a survey. Q1. How many times per lab meeting can I interrupt a discussion if someone refers to a female chicken as “he”? This survey isn’t (solely) hyperbolic. I could actually use some advice over here. The comment section is open. Do…
Part 5 in an occasional feature, highlighting recently published articles featuring an author (or authors) who is a current member of the Stanford Neuroscience Ph.D program. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)* First off, 4th year student Sung-Yon Kim (Deisseroth lab) published his study of distinct subregions of the bed nucelus of the stria…
Here are a few items that have leapt onto my web-feeds in the last week: Brain Initiative Update: So this week begins the NSF Physical and Mathematical Principles of Brain Structure and Function Workshop, also known as the first in a series of planning meetings for President Obama’s BRAIN Initiative. Portions of…