SfN honors women with the Celebration of Women in Neuroscience event each year at the SfN annual meeting.

As SfN begins celebrating its 50th anniversary, the importance of cutting-edge technology, rigorous basic research, and collaboration across disciplines and borders remains at the heart of discoveries in neuroscience.

As SfN begins celebrating its 50th anniversary, the importance of cutting-edge technology, rigorous basic research, and collaboration across disciplines and borders remains at the heart of discoveries in neuroscience.

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The White House pause on federal grants is unprecedented and highly disruptive to the entire scientific community. The Administration has frozen previously approved and authorized funds, including reimbursements for funds already spent. These disruptive choices will impact students and trainees who rely on grants, funded investigators, and patients waiting for critical discoveries and treatments, in addition to having an economic impact for employees and employers at universities and organizations that are economic drivers in the U.S.

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Approximately 25,000 neuroscience researchers and clinicians will convene in Washington, D.C., November 11–15 for the first Society for Neuroscience annual meeting to be held in the nation’s capital since 2017.

When in pain, pain relief is much sought after, particularly for individuals with chronic pain. In analogy to augmentation of the hedonic experience (“liking”) of a reward by the motivation to obtain a reward (“wanting”), the seeking of pain relief in a motivated state might increase the experience of pain relief when obtained. We tested this hypothesis in a psychophysical experiment in healthy human subjects, by assessing potential pain-inhibitory effects of pain relief “won” in a wheel of fortune game compared with pain relief without winning, exploiting the fact that the mere chance of winning induces a motivated state. The results show pain-inhibitory effects of pain relief obtained by winning in behaviorally assessed pain perception and ratings of pain intensity. Further, the higher participants scored on the personality trait novelty seeking, the more pain inhibition was induced. These results provide evidence that pain relief, when obtained in a motivated state, engages endogenous pain-inhibitory sy...

Prize winners describe cell, circuits that make all kinds of movement possible