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  • Current Issue: Winter 2021
    • Message From the President: Global Connections
    • Q&A: New NIH BRAIN Initiative Director on Accomplishments, Aspirations
    • Access Global Neuroscience Virtually January 11–13
    • Inside Neuroscience: The Relationship Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Diabetes
    • Why Humans — and the Brain — Need Community
    • SfN Recognizes Award Winners, Outgoing Committee Members
    • Neuronline Spotlight: Navigating Academia as a Black Woman
    • New JNeurosci and eNeuro Features Respond to Reader Needs
    • SfN Council Reviews Shift to Digital-First Programming
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Winter 2021

  • Barry Everitt
    Message From the President: Global Connections

    Several opportunities to connect await SfN members in early 2021.

  • John Ngai
    Q&A: New NIH BRAIN Initiative Director on Accomplishments, Aspirations

    John Ngai describes scientific advances, adapting to COVID-19, and promoting inclusion.

  • SfN Global Connectome logo
    Access Global Neuroscience Virtually January 11–13

    The neuroscience community gathers online for abstracts, sessions, and socials.

  • Slide "Conclusions: High and low blood sugar disrupts sleep, Alzheimer's disease pathology disrupts sleep, targeting metabolism is a potential treatment for sleep in Alzheimer's disease"
    Inside Neuroscience: The Relationship Between Alzheimer’s Disease and Diabetes

    Glucose metabolism problems and Alzheimer’s pathology could be related, disrupted, and potentially fixed.

  • Regions of the “social brain,” including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), temporoparietal junction (TPJ), posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS), amygdala, and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Source: Sarah Jayne Blackmore, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2008.
    Why Humans — and the Brain — Need Community

    Neuroscience points to the brain needing community in a similar fashion to food and water.

  • Infographic: "2020 Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award Vidhya Rangaraju, PhD Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience, Hidehiko Inagaki, PhD Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience" Photos of the two awardees
    SfN Recognizes Award Winners, Outgoing Committee Members

    SfN congratulates this year's winners and thanks its volunteers.

  • Kaela Singleton and a colleague stand together in front of scientific posters.
    Neuronline Spotlight: Navigating Academia as a Black Woman

    Kaela S. Singleton shares the good and bad of her experiences in academia.

  • Person reading a printed copy of JNeurosci at the annual meeting
    New JNeurosci and eNeuro Features Respond to Reader Needs

    SfN journals evolve alongside their readers' needs.

  • generic science image and SfN 50th Anniversary logo
    SfN Council Reviews Shift to Digital-First Programming

    Updates on SfN's transition to virtual events in support of members.

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