Recent research suggests that practices like meditation and mindfulness can lead to measurable changes in brain structure and function, promoting neuroplasticity.

Benedict Kolber, PhD, organized a professional development workshop (PDW) at Neuroscience 2024, “Opening the File Drawer: Solutions to Sharing Unpublished Work Including Null Results and Small Findings” that discussed the root causes and consequences of the “file drawer problem,” when well-designed experiments go unpublished and provided. The workshop provided actionable strategies to ensure that all findings contribute to the advancement of knowledge, including information on micropublications, pre-publication, and using tools to find options for publication. Watch this video to learn more about Kolber and the file drawer problem. Ready to start opening the file drawer? Use these resources and explore the slides from the PDW to get started.

Ashley Clark discusses her paper, “Oculomotor Contributions to Foveal Crowding,” published in Vol. 44, Issue 48 of JNeurosci, with Megan Sansevere from SfN’s Journals’ staff.

Memory shapes who we are, both as individuals and scientists. It emerges from the interplay of diverse neural circuits, giving rise to representations that guide behavior.

How do we learn and know? For much of the speaker’s career, it was assumed that neurons respond to external stimuli as if to represent them, but an equally plausible model asserts that neuronal activity is fundamentally internally organized and instead fit to external features.

While it is evolutionarily advantageous for individuals to act in ways that promote their own survival and reproductive success, humans and other animals often display empathy and compassion through behaviors that benefit others.

Research involving nonhuman primates remains crucial for translating discoveries from rodent and computer models to humans with neurological and neuropsychiatric illnesses.

From early studies in sleep medicine to a serendipitous move to Milan, where he discovered intracerebral EEG, this speaker’s journey has been shaped by curiosity and chance.

We are living in turbulent research times in the U.S. The speaker will share her thoughts and advice on navigating these unprecedented, challenging times in neuroscience research based on her last 30 years navigating a healthy family life and career in somatosensory and pain research.

What does a sensory stimulus have to achieve in the brain to enter into conscious awareness? The speaker was drawn to neuroscience to answer this question and to understand how the brain rewires during learning.