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Society for Neuroscience Scholars Program

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Annual stipend for enrichment activities outside the scholar's home institution Support for and annual meeting travel expenses Access to annual meeting workshops, courses, and events Complimentary SfN meeting registration and abstract fee waivers... SfN is currently accepting applications for the Neuroscience Scholars Program (NSP). NSP is a three-year fellowship to enhance career development and professional networking opportunities for underrepresented minority undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in neuroscience. The program, funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke ( http://www. For more information and application forms, please visit www. gov/ ), provides scholars with:.

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Michael Oshinsky at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago

Michael Oshinsky, from Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Headache Centre and the Department of Neurology, discusses his poster presentation ...

Future wars may be waged with mind-controlled weaponry, Royal Society warns

21.05.12

, Which cites interest in neuroscience from the military community, and identifies particular technologies that may arise. Among them is the potential for "neural interface systems" (NIS) to bring about weapons controllable by the human mind, though the reports also discusses more benign military applications of neuroscience, such as fostering a revolution in prosthetic limbs.

Brain-controlled technology

The report distinguishes between two types of neural interface: those that "input into" the brain's neural systems, and those that monitor neural activity to predict "motor intentions" - outcomes of thought processes, essentially. Specific NIS technologies mentioned by the report include both EEG and electronic implants, citing the success of BrainGate in allowing paralyzed patients to control the motion of an on-screen cursor by "simply imagining this motion."

"NIS such as BrainGate could also be used to allow long-range control of motion," the report finds. "Electrode arrays implanted in the nervous system could provide a connection between the nervous system of an able-bodied individual and a specific hardware or software system. Since the human brain can process images, such as targets, much faster than the subject is consciously aware of, a neurally interfaced weapons systems could provide significant advantages over other system control methods in terms of speed and accuracy."

Source: Gizmag

Neuroscience Conference 2008: What is symposia?

Nov 15, 2008 by Robin | Posted in Medicine

Hi,
In regards to the Society for Neuroscience Conference (www.sfn.org), what is the difference between "symposia" and a lecture or poster session? Is symposia someone giving a lecture? Granted they are listed in a separate category

I've been to more than 20 SfN national meetings, and they have gotten so large that I stopped going a few years ago. Washington DC isn't the greatest place for this type of meeting anyway, but to answer your question, symposia are meetings on a given

Simonizer1218 | Nov 15, 2008

symposia is the plural of SYMPOSIUM
It's a meeting or conference for discussion of a topic, especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations...a lecture is when one person, usually the speaker makes the presentation

Kate (the 10th) | Nov 15, 2008

Interested in how Marijuana may fight dementia and possibly Alzheimers?

Nov 15, 2006 by Derek D | Posted in Law & Ethics

The below article was published in the Columbus Dispatch and cites an Ohio State University Study which looks at the effects of marijuana on the brains of rats with dementia.

http://cannabisnews.com/news/22/thread22 303.shtml

I had read about this study. Maybe with enough baby-boomers coming of age, they will push the government into making marijuana legal. My mother is a baby-boomer, and she is terrified of Alzheimer's. She can't smoke it, but she's hopeful something good

ktan_the_siren | Nov 15, 2006