How can institutions ensure faculty feel safe, listened to, valued, and treated fairly and with respect?

How can institutions ensure faculty feel safe, listened to, valued, and treated fairly and with respect?

This webcast will give you an overview of how the budget and appropriations processes are supposed to work, and how they are working under the current legal and political climate. Watch this webcast to: Understand the meaning of key budgetary terms Learn what the failure of the budget process means for scientific research funding through agencies like NIH Discover opportunities to advocate for neuroscience funding

Neural networks must balance excitation and inhibition throughout development and maturity. Many neural disorders are associated with an imbalance of excitation and inhibition, including spasticity, seizure activity, and several neurodevelopmental disorders.

Mitochondria are essential organelles that perform hundreds of biochemical reactions essential for processes beyond the generation of ATP. The last decade has seen an explosion in our understanding of the cell biology of mitochondria, providing a renewed understanding of their contribution to neurological diseases.

At the 2015 International Neuroethics Society annual meeting in Chicago, Nita Farahany and a panel from the Football Players Health Study (FPHS) at Harvard University headlined the public talk, “Is professional football safe? Can it be made safer?” The panel declined to provide direct answers to these important questions, but the short answers are “No,” and “Not by much,” respectively.

Do you shy away from having difficult conversations with your mentor or mentee? Develop and learn to use tools that will help you design and build positive and productive relationships in any circumstance. Samantha Sutton, a life and career coach and founder of Samantha Sutton, Ph.D. Life Solutions, shares ways to evaluate and improve communications in this video series.

One of the most important decisions you’ll make in graduate school is choosing the lab where you’ll do your thesis research.

Mild traumatic brain injury, particularly when associated with contact sports and with military service, has gained public awareness as a health concern. This Social Issues Roundtable explores the complex issues of concussion and its multiple impacts to the brain — from diagnosis to long-term consequences.

Drug addiction does not discriminate between the sexes, with both men and women showing comparable rates of addiction across a range of legal and illicit drugs. However, there is evidence that the ramping up of addiction from initial use to a clinical diagnosis occurs more rapidly in women for several different drugs of abuse, including cocaine.