Tag Archives: SfN

Brainy days

Whew, we’re done with a week of meeting smart folks and learning about the brain. More than 31,000 neuroscientists hit DC last week, and a lot of us wrote about it. Here are my entries for The Dana Foundation: How Do You Get Involved in Neuroethics? During a workshop at the annual meeting of the [...]

Brain scientists occupy DC

Smack in the middle of National Novel Writing Month, I have to switch gears for a week to report on the news in brain science (that’s my day-job). Neuroscience 2011 is the big event of the year for these folks. Starting Saturday, more than 30,000 scientists from around the world are expected to converge on [...]

Ethics and neuroscience

Along with some 30,000 brain scientists, I’m heading to San Diego at the end of this week for the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting (SfN); five days of posters, presentations, and conversation about cutting-edge science. But first, on Friday, I’m going to hear what our progress in science might mean morally at the one-day annual [...]

Chicago!

It’s time for Neuroscience 2009, the Society for Neuroscience’s annual meeting, Oct. 15-22 in Chicago. I arrived last night, and swung up to the Hancock Building’s 95th floor for a reception for members and friends of the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives tonight. The hostess commiserated with me that it wasn’t sunny enough to see [...]

Encephalon 59 is up

This fortnight’s version of the Encephalon carnival is at Ionian Enchantment. My Dana Press blog on the big business potential of neurotechnology and Ben’s on dancing for Parkinson’s patients made the cut this time. Ben extended his reporting on the dance events at Society for Neuroscience into a full-length story, too. I attended that “conversation” event with choreographer [...]

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