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  • Current Issue: Fall 2020
    • Message From the President: Challenges Drive Change
    • Q&A: FENS President Looks to Strengthen Community
    • Announcing SfN’s Global Connectome: A Virtual Event – Coming January 11–13
    • Inside Neuroscience: Organoids Current Functionality and Future Potential
    • Why the Brain Loves Stories
    • Sniffing COVID-19 Out: Studying the Nose to Understand the Coronavirus
    • “A Fundamentally Human Endeavor” — Leaders Share Their Paths in The History of Neuroscience
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Fall 2020

  • Barry Everitt
    Message From the President: Challenges Drive Change

    A new reality and an old call for justice reshapes the SfN community.

  • Jean-Antoine Girault
    Q&A: FENS President Looks to Strengthen Community

    FENS President Jean-Antoine Girault discusses the first virtual FENS Forum and efforts to increase the diversity of FENS Forum attendees.

  • Person looking at a digital poster presentation at SfN annual meeting
    Announcing SfN’s Global Connectome: A Virtual Event – Coming January 11–13

    Share your research, hear from leaders in the field, and connect with colleagues at SfN's debut Virtual Event.

  • artistic pie graph showing the 350000 single nuclei from the cerebral cortex of 62 individuals
    Inside Neuroscience: Organoids Current Functionality and Future Potential

    Advances in organoid research have the potential to reshape how researchers study the structure and behavior of neurons.

  • Telling a story, no matter the medium, activated a “narrative hub.” This includes (from left to right) the posterior cingulate cortex, the temporoparietal junction, and the posterior superior temporal sulcus. Source: Yuan et al., Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2018
    Why the Brain Loves Stories

    There’s a reason you get lost in a good book: stories activate the brain’s hard-wired social processing.

  • model of coronavirus cell
    Sniffing COVID-19 Out: Studying the Nose to Understand the Coronavirus

    As many as 80% of COVID-19 patients report anosmia, but scientists are still learning just how the virus affects olfactory neurons.

  • Diagram of a human head; The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography Science as a human endeavor Volume 11
    “A Fundamentally Human Endeavor” — Leaders Share Their Paths in The History of Neuroscience
    In the latest History of Neuroscience, 12 senior neuroscientists share their personal scientific journeys, from early childhood to the present day.
  • A group of male and female neuroscientists discussing what they're looking at on a tablet.
    Neuronline Spotlight: Supporting Underrepresented Trainees and Faculty

    Learn how to support underrepresented neuroscientists at all career stages with these Neuronline resources.

  • generic science image and SfN 50th Anniversary logo
    SfN Council Directs Programming, Governance Changes to Address Pandemic

    Updates on SfN's efforts to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, expand global partnerships, foster inclusion, advocate for federal support, and more.

  • generic science image and SfN 50th Anniversary logo
    Election Results: Meet the New SfN Leaders

    Learn about the new SfN president-elect, secretary, treasurer, and council members.

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