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  • Current Issue: Spring 2020
    • Message From the President: Neuroscience Amid a Pandemic
    • Q&A: International Brain Bee Board Chair on its New Structure and Priorities
    • The Neural Networks Behind Persuasion
    • Inside Neuroscience: The Gut-Brain Connection and Neurodegenerative Diseases
    • Supporting Research Funding Through Year-Round Advocacy
    • Public Outreach – Essential for Communities and Researchers
    • Simple, Fair, and Open — Meeting the Needs of Authors and Readers
    • Neuronline Spotlight: Entrepreneurial Women Combining Neuroscience, Engineering, and Technology
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Spring 2020

  • Barry Everitt
    Message From the President: Neuroscience Amid a Pandemic
    As COVID-19 upends our way of life, we must continue to find ways to support our colleagues, students, and communities.
  • Jaime Diaz-Granados
    Q&A: International Brain Bee Board Chair on its New Structure and Priorities
    Jaime L. Diaz-Granados, the International Brain Bee’s new board chair, discusses the organization's priorities and structure as a non-profit.
  • Two NeuroAdvocates in a meeting with a legislator at SfN Hill Day 2020
    The Neural Networks Behind Persuasion
    Dive into the brain networks that determine if a message is persuasive — or not.
  • Bioactive molecules originating from microbial metabolism are thought to modulate emotional behavior through several mechanisms:   -   (1) Activation of afferent vagal nerve fibers.   -   (2) Stimulation of the mucosal immune system or of circulatory immune cells after translocation from the gut into the circulation.   -   (3) Absorption into the bloodstream, and biochemical interaction with a number of distal organs. In the brain, such metabolites may be able to activate receptors on neurons or glia, modulate neuronal excitability, and change expression patterns by means of epigenetic mechanisms.
    Inside Neuroscience: The Gut-Brain Connection and Neurodegenerative Diseases
    The gut microbiome may be key to new treatments for a range of neurological diseases, according to research presented at Neuroscience 2019.
  • NeuroAdvoacates pose with SfN President Barry Everitt and U.S. legislators
    Supporting Research Funding Through Year-Round Advocacy
    As these NeuroAdvocates demonstrate, effective advocacy can take place year round and at any career stage.
  • Dr. Paul Aravich from Eastern Virginia Medical School holding a brain model
    Public Outreach – Essential for Communities and Researchers
    Learn how SfN members have adapted their outreach activities and celebrated Brain Awareness Week in a time of social distancing.
  • Attendee looking at a copy of JNeurosci at the SfN booth in the exhibit hall of Neuroscience 2019
    Simple, Fair, and Open — Meeting the Needs of Authors and Readers
    JNeurosci and eNeuro meet your open-access publishing needs while maintaining rigorous scientific standards.
  • Lena Ting
    Neuronline Spotlight: Entrepreneurial Women Combining Neuroscience, Engineering, and Technology
    Four female scientists share their career paths and scientific accomplishments in male-dominated fields.

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