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  • Current Issue: Spring 2021
    • Message from the President
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    • SfN Statement on Neuroscience 2021 Planning
    • Inside Neuroscience: Understanding Smell
    • Future of Neuroscience: Brielle Ferguson
    • Advocacy Goes Virtual for SfN Hill Days
    • BrainFacts.org Spotlight: Using Virtual Reality to Face Fears
    • Neuronline Spotlight: Coping With Failure as a Grad Student and Beyond
    • SfN Council Reviews Global Connectome Results, Feedback
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Spring 2021

  • Barry Everitt
    Message from the President

    Together, we have learned much. But questions remain.

  • Headshot of Sudip Parikh Headshot.
    Q&A: New AAAS CEO on Challenges, Opportunities in Science Policy

    Sudip Parikh describes how AAAS works to defend and advance science in government.

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    SfN Statement on Neuroscience 2021 Planning

    SfN is exploring a wide range of formats to support Neuroscience 2021.

  • three images: one of the hippocampus highlighted, the next a cup of tea with biscuits, and and the last a diagram of a mouse maze.
    Inside Neuroscience: Understanding Smell

    With COVID-induced smell loss, understanding smell takes on a new urgency.

  • Image of Brielle Ferguson standing in a lab.
    Future of Neuroscience: Brielle Ferguson

    Rising neuroscientist and Black In Neuro co-founder shares her story.

  • Image of a zoom call with four participants.
    Advocacy Goes Virtual for SfN Hill Days

    NeuroAdvocates urged lawmakers to support neuroscience priorities.

  • Cartoon image of using virtual reality goggles.
    BrainFacts.org Spotlight: Using Virtual Reality to Face Fears

    Treating fears in a virtual environment could make therapies for phobias less difficult and more accessible.

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    Neuronline Spotlight: Coping With Failure as a Grad Student and Beyond

    When responding to disappointment, take time and perspective.

  • Image of the SfN logo next to a scientific image.
    SfN Council Reviews Global Connectome Results, Feedback

    Lessons learned to enhance future SfN events.

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