Some posters get more attention than others. Either there’s an interesting abstract, an attractive/famous presenter or, my favorite, additional passersby get sucked in by the gravitational force of an existing crowd. Whatever the reason, I’ve started a game called Photos of Popular Posters (PPP). It doesn’t in any way attempt…
Today was great because there was a ton of hippocampal-cortical posters I was excited to check out except I was also presenting so I couldn’t actually check them out. Plus, it wasn’t like I could just pop over when my crowd died down because they were all the way in…
…and now for what is probably my final pre-SFN post. Posters dealing with mossy fiber function!
Culling through the SFN abstract browser is an imperfect process. Keyword searches can be helpful, particularly if you’re interested in a fairly specific topic, like, say, “1-bromopropane” (1 hit). But if you’re interested in “postnatal neurogenesis” (292 hits) or “hippocampus memory” (1118 hits), make sure your scrolling finger is rested and…
Continuing on… 1) 31.20/C37 – Dentate network activity modulates integration of newborn granule cells *F. KLEINE BORGMANN1, J. GRÄFF2, N. TONI3, I. M. MANSUY4,5, S. JESSBERGER1; 1Inst. of Cell Biology, Swiss Federal Inst. of Technol. (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland; 2Brain Res. Inst., Univ. of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; 3Univ. of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; 4Brain Res. Inst.,…
I have 62 items in my itinerary and I expect to add to it in the following weeks. There are always great presentations I find out about last minute and undoubtedly others that never see the light of (my) day. So fill me in if you have any tips. It’s…
I was recently reading a number of old papers on memory and synaptic tagging and found myself wondering whether they were bloggable. My instincts said yes but the more I thought about it the more I realized they’re several years old and that is ancient by the standards of Twitter…
Two recent papers have attracted a lot of media attention because they draw direct links between adult neurogenesis and behavioral disorders: Noonan et al. showed that rats lacking adult neurogenesis (stopped with irradiation) are more susceptible to cocaine addiction. Jin et al. showed that mice lacking adult neurogenesis (using a…
I recently became re-acquainted with the neurogenesis literature while writing the last post, re-finding data in papers whose gist, but not details, I had remembered. I reached out a little bit, asking others if I had forgot any studies and indeed I had, including this study by Okano, Pfaff and…