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UCL to host new brain research institute

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Clay rendered three-dimensional model of the UCL campus, created by Andrew Hudson-Smith of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, using SketchUp and 3DMax. Nature News reports that UCL will host a centre of excellence for neuroscience research:University College London (UCL)...

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ESOF2008, Barcelona, July 18-22

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This coming Friday is my 34th birthday, and the lovely people from ScienceBlogs/ Seed Media Group have given me a fantastic present: they're sending me on an all expenses paid long weekend to Barcelona to cover ESOF2008.The mission of the...

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UCL launches iTunes platform

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Today sees the launch of UCL's iTunes platform, which can be used to download, among other things, lectures and seminars. There's not much material on there yet, but the university promises that highlights of UCL on iTunes U will include:...

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Videos from the Columbia Brain & Mind Symposium

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Four years ago this week, leading neuroscientists and psychologists convened at Columbia University for the Brain and Mind Symposium, "to discuss the accomplishments and limitations of reductionist and holistic approaches to examining the nervous system and mental functions". Speakers included...

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UCL launches neuroscience website

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This beautiful two-photon microscopy image, by Alanna Watt and Michael Hausser, shows a network of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar cortex. Named after the Czech anatomist who discovered them, Purkinje cells are the largest cells in the mammalian brain....

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Wellcome/ New Scientist essay competition

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Here's something that I'll almost certainly be entering in two years' time (when, if all goes according to plan, I'll be a Ph.D. student again): Wellcome Trust and New Scientist essay competition The Wellcome Trust is inviting postgraduates in science,...

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Neurosexism & the neuroenhancement of love

Category: Neuroscience

The first issue of a new peer-reviewed journal called Neuroethics is available online. Edited by Neil Levy, a regular contributor to Experimental Philosophy and The Garden of Forking Paths, the journal offers free access to the full text of all...

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NeuroTV at UCSD

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UCSD-TV, the local television station broadcast by the University of California at San Diego, has a series called Grey Matters, which is devoted to neuroscience.To date, fifteen full-length presentations have been produced for the series, all of which are availabe...

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Neuron publishes online readers' comments

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The editors of the journal Neuron are now publishing readers' comments on the journal's website. Comments can be made online for any paper published in the journal, including all of those in the online back archive. Neuron is owned by...

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Tips for writing behavioural studies grants

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I've just received this email from Stephanie Porter, one of the authors of the Oxford University Press blog: I wanted to share with you a compelling series of posts from our new Complete Writing Guide to NIH Behavioral Studies Grants....

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