This year’s SFN abstracts, for your anticipatory pleasure! INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ADULT-BORN AND DEVELOPMENTALLY-BORN NEURONS DURING LEARNING Alyssa Ash, Jack Clemans-Gibbon, Timothy O’Leary, Erin Chahley, Desiree Seib, Jason Snyder One feature that sets the dentate gyrus (DG) of the hippocampus apart from other regions of the brain is its ability to produce…
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Plop 30,000 neuroscientists into a downtown core and around 6pm you better be figuring out where you’re going to eat. We found such a place. It was perfect. Then the music turned off and the TV volume went up. Conversation waned. People were fighting! Blood! Joints cracking! But we just want…
The Snyder lab, along with collaborators in the Psychology Department at UBC, will be presenting FIVE posters at SFN this year! Here they are, in order of how hard it was for me to find them on my hard drive, email etc. EARLY SURVIVAL AND DELAYED DEATH OF DEVELOPMENTALLY-BORN DENTATE…
THIS IS EXCITING. READERS THAT ARE PREGNANT / HAVE HEART PROBLEMS STOP NOW CLICK HERE. Over 30,000 people attend the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting and for this reason alone people either love it or hate it. On one hand, you can learn about any type of neuroscience research imaginable.…
Previously, I wrote about new SFN data on the role for newborn neurons in regulating emotion. The second half of the SFN meeting rounded out the story because the bulk of the functional presentations focussed on the role of new neurons in that other, classic function of the hippocampus: memory.…
How do the physiological properties of new neurons translate to a behavioral role? Are they just like mature neurons or are they unique? One idea that’s been thrown around is that their plastic period, their critical period, might endow them with an enhanced ability to associate information and contribute to…
It’s hard to explore SFN when you’ve got your own poster to tend to. I thought I could hop around the development section before things got busy but there was no “before things got busy.” The design of the conference also can work against presenters because the presentations you’d like…
Update: The poster is now available at Nature Precedings. Still acquiring histological images for my SfN poster. My recurring problem is that I end up taking pictures of things because they’re pretty and not because they have anything to do with the task at hand. Today’s case in point: Well,…
The annual most insanely huge neuroscience meeting is rapidly approaching and I am pleased to announce that I will be blogging about the meeting again this year, here at Functional Neurogenesis. The meeting will be held at the Washington DC convention center, located in “China” town, which is cool because in…
Some final observations at the 2010 Society for Neuroscience meeting.