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Astrocytes: a story in pictures. Ok, just a bunch of pictures.
One trick on the confocal microscope is to use a larger pinhole so that a greater thickness of the section is captured in the image. Images acquired this way are comparable to a bunch of thin sections...
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The White House wants your thoughts on open access to scientific...
Do you live on planet earth? Then you probably pay taxes. And if you pay taxes then you’re supporting scientific research. Thanks a lot – that’s really great. Thanks to you scientists can make...
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Google Scholar vs. Scopus & Web of Science
A couple of interesting correspondences (here and here) just appeared in Nature on the legitimacy of Google Scholar for tracking citations. Interesting because I’ve recently been pondering the same...
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Forming and recalling memories. Artificially.
Memory manipulation has become one of the most hotly pursued topics in neuroscience. After all, much or of who are is based on what we’ve learned, including memories that we can consciously recall as...
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Virus: a new tool for generating pretty pictures
Now that I have something to show for it, let this be a formal announcement that I’ve returned to Toronto to join Paul Frankland’s lab (and therefore the larger Josselyn-Frankland group). I’ve always...
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Impaired adult neurogenesis leads to depression – is it realistic?
About a year ago we published a paper linking adult neurogenesis to depression. A causal sort of ‘linking’, right? I mean, we found that, when adult neurogenesis was eliminated, mice had elevated...
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#Hubbian: the toy that makes navigating 20,000 abstracts fun.
THIS IS EXCITING. READERS THAT ARE PREGNANT / HAVE HEART PROBLEMS STOP NOW CLICK HERE. Over 30,000 people attend the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting and for this reason alone people either love...
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A formal invitation to join the Snyder lab
My UBC Psychology page and Neuroscience links are up. Grad school application deadlines are approaching. I think it’s time to formally advertise that… I WANT YOU IN MY LAB! The lab’s goal is to...
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Crosspost: Saving & sharing presentation lists on the new and improved Hubbian
Originally posted at Hubbian There’s one week remaining before the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting begins. That means you have about 6 days before you really really have to start tallying a...
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New neurons mature slower in the temporal/ventral dentate gyrus
I’ve previously written about the functional differences between the septal (aka dorsal aka rostral¹ aka posterior²) and temporal (ventral/caudal/anterior) hippocampus and how studies are increasingly...
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RSS is (not) dead (to me)
I’ve thought of writing about RSS feeds for scientists for a couple of years now so it’s kind of funny that I’ve only gotten around to it 3 days before Google shuts down Reader. And it must be...
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Lab notebooks, lab websites, the future.
About a year ago I went through a phase of rabid excitement regarding my lab’s website. Then I had to do some experiments, write grants, move across the country. And then today I became rabidly excited...
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New data on neurogenesis, pattern separation, context discrimination and stress
One of the leading hypothesized functions for adult hippocampal neurogenesis in memory is pattern separation. Loosely defined, pattern separation is the process of making similar patterns of neural...
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Archived!
The Functional Neurogenesis blog contents have been archived at the Snyder lab website: http://snyderlab.com/functional-neurogenesis-2009-2013/
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