David O. Robbins Neuroscience Program at Ohio Wesleyan University

Check out the awesome work students did in the Laboratory in Cognitive Neuroscience this Spring!

Apply now for to summer fellowships for Neuroscience research at Backyard Brains, to work on some pretty awesome projects! http://blog.backyardbrains.com/2018/02/backyard-brains-fellowship-2018/

Backyard Brains Fellowship 2018

SAVE THE DATE for mGluRs 2017!!

We are excited to share that the 2017 Midwest/Great Lakes Undergraduate Research Symposium in Neuroscience (mGluRs) will be held at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH on Saturday, September 30, 2017.

Details about the conference, registration and more will be posted soon on the conference webpage: http://mglurs.org.

Please stay tuned for more information! We hope to see you there.

mGluRs | Midwest/Great Lakes Undergraduate Research Symposium in Neuroscience It’s a mouthful, but we hope you’ll join us anyway. In the spirit of regional undergraduate neuroscience conferences such as SYNAPSE and Midbrains, mGluRs is the annual showcase for the excellent neuroscience research done by undergraduates in the Midwest/Great Lakes region. Since 2009, the annual…

Looking for something to do this summer, students? Apply to work with the Backyard Brains guys!!

blog.backyardbrains.com Do you have an interest in neuroscience? Do you like squids or dragonflies? Electrical, Mechanical or Computer engineering? Want to develop your own experiments and publish your results? Learn to communicate with the public? Maybe even all of the above? Then you’re in luck!

Check out this opportunity!!

Neuroscience Study Abroad | A Summer Course from the College of Charleston Neuroscience Seminar in Germany is a summer study abroad program for undergraduate students interested in Neuroscience. It is a collaboration between the College of Charleston, the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Ludwig Maximilians Universität (LMU) in Munich and Charité Medical University...

Ohio State team restores motion to quadriplegic man's hand. Here's how: BTN LiveBIG Pioneering brain surgery leads to astounding results.

Research identifies brain network that controls spread of seizures Image credit: J Brew / flickr

Congrats to OWU Neuro alum Kellie Gross on her publication in PLOS One! Nice work!!

The Brain That Couldn’t Remember The untold story of the fight over the legacy of “H.M.” — the patient who revolutionized the science of memory.

Cool things going on at !! Keep an eye out for updates!!

Happy to host a BBC-TV documentary crew this morning. We'll tell you more about their story soon

Excellent re-defining/depiction of "autism spectrum". http://themighty.com/2016/05/rebecca-burgess-comic-redesigns-the-autism-spectrum/

Comic Redesigns the Autism Spectrum to Crush Stereotypes What do you think of this?

We're Famous!

Ohio Wesleyan Expands Neuroscience Program | Ohio Wesleyan University Welcome to Ohio Wesleyan University!

This should be a great talk! You should come!

‘Neurotribes’ Author To Discuss Legacy Of Autism | Ohio Wesleyan University Welcome to Ohio Wesleyan University!

Just a reminder that we'll be meeting tomorrow for book club to discuss:
262-267 (intro to Bernie Rimland)
middle 269 to top 272 (Rimland’s book)
bottom 274 to end 276 (wanted autism to be a metabolic disease, with a simple fix)
middle of 289 to middle of 292 (Rimland’s turn to “orthomolecular medicine”)
middle 327 to end 332 (Rimland's failure with orthomolecular medicine)
bottom of 280 to 287 (intro to Lovaas and his techniques)
305-316 (torture tales from Lovaas)
See you then!

It was a fun day for Dr. Yates hanging out in the geeky neuroscience confines of the Society for Neuroscience headquarters in Washington, DC!

Book Club update:
Here's the reading from NeuroTribes for the week we return from Spring Break (March 16)! See you then!
262-267 (intro to Bernie Rimland)
middle 269 to top 272 (Rimland’s book)
bottom 274 to end 276 (wanted autism to be a metabolic disease, with a simple fix)
middle of 289 to middle of 292 (Rimland’s turn to “orthomolecular medicine”)
middle 327 to end 332 (Rimland's failure with orthomolecular medicine)

Book Club update:
Here's the reading from NeuroTribes for this week (Feb 24th):
187-middle of 208 ("toxic parenting")
middle of 216-222 (Asberger vs. Kanner)

See you at the same time and place next week!

Well, this is pretty cool!

New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’ M.I.T. researchers have devised a radical approach to brain imaging that reveals what past studies missed about neural responses to music.

PHD Comic: Unfolding the Brain Engineer Ellen Kuhl explains how mechanical forces affect the wrinkles in your brain.

From Dr. Fink:
"We are set to start the neuro book club on Wednesday of next week. We will meet from noon to 1:00 in room 201 of Merrick Hall. If you have not yet given Dr. Yates the $8 contribution to offset book costs, you need to do so by the end of the day today. If Dr. Yates is not in her office (in the basement of Phillips Hall), you can give the money to the psychology departmental secretary. Dr. Yates will be ordering the books tonight, and you can pick them up either Friday or Monday, depending on when they arrive (she will send an email when they are available).

For the first week, plan to read the Introduction section (pp. 1-17) and pp. 44-59 of Chapter 2. I'm looking forward to getting started next week!"

Book Club for "NeuroTribes"; author Steve Silberman to speak on campus: Author & science journalist, Steve Silberman, will be speaking on the OWU campus on April 8th. Mr. Silberman has recently published "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity," which has been been met with very positive reviews.

The OWU Neuroscience program is sponsoring a book club in preparation for the author's visit. Starting Feb. 3, the book club will meet every Wednesday from 12-1, to discuss that week's reading from "NeuroTribes" (usually about 20 pages). The Neuroscience program will cover about half the cost of the book for interested students, and asks each student to contribute $8.

We plan to order all the books in one big order, so if you would like to purchase the book at the reduced cost through the Neuroscience program, please email Prof. Chris Fink ([email protected]) by 5pm on Wednesday, Jan. 27.

Feel free to invite any others who might also be interested.

NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman review – an enlightened take on autism and difference

Looking for summer research internships? Start applying now! Most applications are due at the end of January and February. See the links below for a fairly comprehensive list of summer research opportunities (the links say "neuroscience" but the lists includes ALL types of biology):

http://www.funfaculty.org/drupal/undergrad_internships_neuroscience

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/neuroscience/summerprograms/underrep

https://www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/neuroscience/summerprograms/medrelated

Internship Opportunties | Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Rochester Institute of Technology - This link will take you to another list of internships which includes all areas of biological sciences.

Congrats to Anna Hoffman, OWU Neuroscience class of 2012, who was just accepted to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville to pursue her Masters in Human Resource Management!

Congrats to Kara Dawson on her acceptance to Baldwin Wallace University's Physician Assistant Program!! She'll start work on her Master of Medical Science degree in May! Congrats, Kara!

We had a wonderful time at the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Social and Awards Ceremony. Congratulations to our most awesome Dr. Yates for receiving the FUN Service Award!

FUN Service Award:
The Service Award will be given from time to time, to recognize individuals who have made outstanding efforts towards the continuing development of FUN as an organization.

Dr. Marie McNeely is a graduate of OWU Neuroscience! Check out this story and see more cool stories about the people behind the science at http://www.peoplebehindthescience.com

People Behind the Science: Larry Squire - BrainFacts.org Squire’s research concerns the organization and structure of mammalian memory (humans and rodents) at the level of neural systems and cognition.

A part of human brain anatomy that was “lost” from neuroanatomy texts for more than a century appears to play a crucial role in how we perceive the world, according to a new study in Cerebral Cortex. Three years ago, scientists at Indiana University traced the missing brain structure, a long, flat bundle of nerves known as the vertical occipital fasciculus, or VOF, to a series of 1881 drawings by by Carl Wernicke, a German-Austrian neuroanatomist. The structure of the VOF (pictured: blue) forms a white matter highway between two parts of the brain's visual system: the lower, ventral part of the system that processes various properties of visual objects and the higher, dorsal parietal regions which tells the brain which areas to orient its attention. The results play an important role in telling us how different parts of the brain communicate with each other. Read more: bit.ly/1W0QcBU

Journal article: A Major Human White Matter Pathway Between Dorsal and Ventral Visual Cortex. Cerebral Cortex, 2015. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv064
Pictured: Two 19th-century drawings of the VOF from a post-mortem dissection. The right image was created by French anatomist Joseph Jules Déjerine in 1895. Photo credit: Kevin Weiner