This is Lesson One in the Implicit Bias Video Series from BruinX, the research and development unit within the University of California, Los Angeles's Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. This video discusses schemas, which are mental short-cuts that help us navigate the world around us.

Don’t be overwhelmed by writing your personal statement. By following these six tips, you can successfully tell your story and explain why you’re an excellent fit for the particular graduate school program.

There are many reasons to have undergraduates join your lab for the summer, including mentoring practice for postdocs and a chance to guide the upcoming generation of researchers.

Material below is adapted from the SfN Short Course, Correlating Cellular Morphology, Physiology, and Gene Expression Using Patch-seq, by Cathryn R. Cadwell, PhD, and Andreas S. Tolias, PhD. Short Courses are day-long scientific trainings on emerging neuroscience topics and research techniques held just prior to SfN’s annual meeting. In the quest to understand the brain, gathering information about the ways neurons communicate is essential. Coupling cell type analysis with electrophysiological measurements obtained through patch-clamping, a host of techniques that measure electrical activity in neurons, has the potential to reveal new insights about how specific neuronal cell types communicate, and thus how the brain works.

The cerebral cortex is the seat of higher cognitive functions such as learning, memory, planning, language acquisition, attention, and consciousness.

Inspired by her research on the neurobiology of language, Flora Vanlangendonck created a short video for SfN’s Brain Awareness Video Contest to explain how the brain processes language and the historical discoveries behind our current understanding of it.

Genetic sequencing technologies allow researchers to characterize the diversity of the human genome as well as the causes of many diseases and disorders.

Discovering what cells give rise to others — in other words, tracing cell lineage — has been a goal of biologists for years.

Leah Anderson Roesch’s neuroscience class at Emory University is not just a prerequisite course for her non-neuroscience students. It’s a way to get liberal arts students connected to and excited about the field.

It's important to have mentors who are similar to us and who have had common experiences — people with whom we'll feel comfortable. However, women and minorities (but really anyone) should also reach out to and establish mentoring relationships with men and other ethnic groups. It's also important for everyone to have mentors who are in the positions that you aspire to, no matter their race or gender, because they give you inside information about how to get there and share a perspective about what it's like. It can also be helpful to get a reality check — to hear, "This is what everybody goes through. Your experience is common." As a mentee, I have learned not to judge someone’s background when considering whether they may or may not be an impactful mentor.