Are you considering graduate school? Four neuroscience program faculty members explain the type of experience and considerations that may be beneficial before you apply.

How does the brain form new memories? Converging evidence shows that the key brain structures crucial for the formation of new memories are located in the medial temporal lobes (MTL).

Literature focused on scientific rigor is ever-growing. In addition to the resources found in the Promoting Awareness and Knowledge to Enhance Scientific Rigor in Neuroscience collection, the articles below can help you explore various issues, solutions, and approaches to implement high standards of scientific rigor in your research.

Halfway through my second year in a neuroscience graduate program this winter, I encountered a new challenge in the lab.

Do you have questions about how to thoughtfully respond to reviews you may not agree with, making recommendations to editors as a reviewer, and other topics related to the peer review process?

The social environment has long been recognized to play an important role in substance use, which is often modeled in rodents using operant conditioning. However, most operant chambers only accommodate one rodent at a time. We present PeerPub - a unique social operant chamber. PeerPub employs touch sensors to track the licking behavior on drinking spouts. When the number of licks meets a set reinforcement schedule, it dispenses a drop of solution with a fixed volume as a reward at the tip of the spout. A radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip implanted on each rat's skull identifies it throughout the experiment. The system is managed by a Raspberry Pi computer. We evaluated PeerPub using Sprague Dawley rats in daily one-hour sessions, where supersac (a glucose and saccharin solution) was provided under a fixed ratio 5 schedule. We discovered that male rats consumed more supersac in dual rat conditions compared to single rat conditions. These findings illustrate PeerPub's effectiveness in modeling the i...

Throughout the primate visual cortex, individual neurons and clusters of neurons respond quite strongly to specific features within a viewed image.

The symptoms characterizing Alzheimer’s disease — memory loss and general cognitive decline — appear to derive from physical changes within the brain including amyloid plaque accumulation in the extracellular spaces, tangled fibrils of tau proteins within neural cells, and gross atrophy.

You may have heard terms such reproducibility, rigor, reliability, and robustness being increasingly used by SfN, the scientific community at large, journalists, and policymakers.

During the Preparing the Next Generation of Neuroscience Leaders conference, speakers on this panel present data on the scientific workforce, discuss how diversity strengthens science, and provide examples of what individuals at institutions can do to ensure that diversity is prioritized at all levels. Opening remarks by Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, President, Society for Neuroscience.