What’s the best way to capture a rat model of depression’s coat state after sucrose splash test? What are the optimal camera angle, rodent position and ways to handle the rat, to prevent any confounding variables? Have looked into research papers but none of them state the above. TIA!

I wanted to share personal experience that my student had yesterday during a university visit and the impact of one-on-one interactions with future researchers.

Our student is interested in neuroscience, but was not interested in visiting this “small” school.

Until… we met an acting department chair who took the time to introduce our student to their work.

During the “introductory remarks” they spoke briefly about their cv, and mentioned their rat lab grant. It’s a very small program at a very small but they are doing important work with endocannabinoids, ethanol, and the brain. They mentioned their work in support of the ongoing NIH studies.

After a brief conversation, the department chair took my student on a tour of the lab and discussed the end to end process and the work that is being done. We discussed ethics, scientific methods, importance of the work, and respecting boundaries.

Watching our student’s enthusiasm during this personalized “tour” was incredible, and the depth of my appreciation to this chair.

Thanks to all who take the time, to show your passion to the next generation of scientists.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8760843/#:~:text=Endocannabinoids%20acting%20via%20CB1R%20have%20been%20implicated%20in,et%20al.%2C%202013).

https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017143#:~:text=Introduction,anxiety%20throughout%20the%20life%20span.

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I have a bachelor’s in Neuroscience and am currently pursuing a master’s in Computational Biology. Through this master’s, I’ll be taking several programming and statistics courses, as well as deep learning and data mining. I’m aiming to pursue a PhD in Computational Neuroscience, particularly at UCL in London.

I’d like to know if my background would be sufficient to apply to this program, or to computational neuroscience programs in general. Additionally, I am working on my thesis alongside my supervisor with the goal of publishing it in a journal.

Any guidance on positioning myself as a strong candidate for these programs would be much appreciated.

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Hi, I will soon be starting a PhD and I need a new laptop. Does anyone have a recommendation on which laptops are best to work with software related to Cognitive Neuroscience (EEG, MEG etc but also neural networks) and genomics (analysis of RNA-seq, transcriptome, single cell etc)?

I am used to Mac but I feel like they're not the best for software :(

Hi everyone,

I’m interested in choosing neuroscience as master specialization but I don’t know much about the future prescriptive and if this is a saturated field already.

I was sure to do immunology as specialization, but I’m currently doing a lab experience in neuroscience and I’m loving it. I’ve never had neuro classes in my bachelor or was interested in it… so be brutally honest and please share what you’re working on and if you suggest this field.

Thank youuuu

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Please help I have a lab practicum tomorrow on this 🥺

Does anyone know if SFN nanosymposiums are recorded, and if so where we can access our recordings?

Thank you!

Hiii,

Sorry to bother you guys especially because this is a stupid question but I’m looking to try the INO.

I’m a senior and I’m in high school in Canada BC. I’ll be graduating summer of 2025. So I’ll be 18 in August.

Looking online I’m legit so confused as to the difference between these competitions and the timing and date as well as the books I need to study and the expected study timeframe. Like how long it to past participant and their placements?

Also will I still be able to qualify next year?

Wanting to get back into math because I haven't been doing any since I graduated highschool a year ago, I'm interested in pursuing a career in neuroscience so I figured a good way to keep myself motivated to get back into math is to relate it to something I'm passionate about. This book was written a long time ago and I know breakthroughs in neuroscience happen very frequently so I'm wondering if the information in this book still holds up?

Hello All!

This community here at r/neuroscience represents one of the largest neuroscience communities in the world (larger than member organizations such as SfN, CAN, and FENS combined).

It seems we have a great opportunity to pool our knowledge and resources to make this a great centralized place to find useful tools, information, or collaborations.

I’m very interested in hearing from everybody here on what would make r/neuroscience most useful to you. What are you missing in your work? What would make this community feel engaging, supportive, and helpful to you?

Hi, I've just got my hands on a Tobii 4C and would like to test its capabilities, I know I can download a trial version of the Pro Lab software, but I wonder if there are any good (free) alternatives?

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hi all,

i have a rather unusual request: does anyone know of slide scanners that can fit glass slides/coverslips that are MUCH thicker than the standard? or are there any labs that have created modified slide scanners that can fit thicker slides?

the details/why i'm asking:

i'm a neuro grad student / histo novice that has access to a truly one-of-a-kind archival dataset from the 1980s. the slides contain whole-brain slices from large marine mammals, and the staining (Nissl and myelin mostly) is of *excellent* quality- much better than i can do myself!

i would love to perform some quantitative cytological analyses on these slides but there is one major obstacle: the slices are mounted on literal windowpanes! the glass is simply too thick to fit into a slide scanner, and so there are no good ways to digitize the collection, save for manually photographing each tiny section through the eyepiece of a microscope that the host lab has modified to fit the windowpane slides...then in theory, uploading and sorting and reconstructing each slice like a puzzle... (i.e. it would be a herculean task)

thus i would appreciate any advice y'all could lend on this unusual scenario... what would you do? have you heard of any labs that process older archival slide sets like these, that are mounted on thick glass? is there any equipment that could accommodate this process? am i overlooking some other workaround?

thanks for reading!

Anyone here attending SfN this year? Looking to meet other grad students to make friends with :)