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jake-head-shot.jpgJake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine focusing in Neuroscience. He is due to graduate in 2032. He received a BS and a MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University -- where he spent most of his time drinking heavily and building vegetable catapults instead of learning information that would now be eminently useful. When he is not failing terrifically to perform his sworn duties, he enjoys watching bad movies, ethnic food, and running.

Pure Pedantry is a blog about science -- social sciences and otherwise -- as well as academic and scientific culture. No one can live on science alone, so I also like to dwell on pop culture, periodically explore the humanities, and indulge in other types of geeky goodness.

Jake is joined periodically by two wonderful guest bloggers: Kara Contreary and Kate Seip. See the About Page.

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Calling All Neuroscientists - or - A Special Issue of the Synapse

Category: The Synapse (a neuroscience carnival)
Posted on: October 10, 2006 10:58 AM, by Jake Young

So there is no one schedule to do the Synapse for next week, and this is kind of deliberate.

For those of you who don't know, the annual Society for Neuroscience convention is this weekend from Saturday to Wednesday. The SfN is the Lolapalooza of neuroscience meetings. Tens of thousands of neuroscientists from all areas go every year. Neurology rock stars go on stage to explain their newest bestest research, and hordes of male and female grad students (read: neurology groupies) throw their underwear at them.

Anyway, I am going to hold off publishing the Synapse until after the annual meeting is done so that hopefully all of us who attend will have an opportunity to post about what we see. Therefore, the next Synapse will be published here on Pure Pedantry on Thursday October 19, 2006. (Individuals not going to SfN are still encouraged to participate.)

Also, check in here over the weekend and early next week for periodic updates on the festivities. I plan on blogging a lot, and fellow Sciencebloggers Shelley and Evil Monkey will be attending.

UPDATE: A new issue of the other neuroscience carnival Encephalon is up at Cognitive Daily. There has been a fall off in contributions, so remember to keep contributing.

Comments

Jake, why is your whole blgo centered?

Posted by: Shelley Batts | October 11, 2006 2:43 PM

Anything psychological going on in the north west?

Posted by: Erick | October 12, 2006 7:55 AM

I only throw my panties for Gazzaniga.

Posted by: nick | October 13, 2006 12:07 AM

High mental situations getting by meditation ( according to
Buddhism nivana ) could be done artificial way by stimulating brain. It can change the chemical sistem of the brain. I suggest to experiment about it.

Posted by: H.M.H.B.D.Bandara | December 24, 2007 1:29 AM

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