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  • Current Issue: Spring 2018
    • Message From SfN President Richard Huganir: The Stories of Neuroscience
    • Neuroscience 2018: Inspiring Conversations Around Science
    • Neuroscience Advocates Make Strong Case With Lawmakers for Research Funding
    • Public Outreach Worldwide Celebrates Brain Awareness
    • SfN Journals: Encouraging Innovation, Promoting Rigor
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    • Inside Neuroscience: How the Brain Reacts to Stress
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    • Q&A: Supporting Neuroscience Collaboration and Outreach Through the Friends of SfN Fund
    • Supporting Female Neuroscientists in Their Careers
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Spring 2018

  • SfN President Rick Huganir
    Message From SfN President Richard Huganir: The Stories of Neuroscience
    As we learn more about the brain, we come to understand more about ourselves and possible directions our research might take, and we can use this insight to form more productive collaborations.
  • poster presentation
    Neuroscience 2018: Inspiring Conversations Around Science
    Approximately 30,000 neuroscientists, clinicians, and advocates are expected to attend Neuroscience 2018, November 3–7, at the San Diego Convention Center.
  • people sitting around a table at a meeting during the 2018 Capitol Hill Day event
    Neuroscience Advocates Make Strong Case With Lawmakers for Research Funding
    During SfN’s 12th annual Capitol Hill Day, advocates representing 25 states and six countries held 93 Congressional meetings.
  • a child examining a brain in lab setting
    Public Outreach Worldwide Celebrates Brain Awareness
    For one week every March, SfN members across the globe engage in outreach with the public around the wonders of the brain.
  • interview with the JNeurosci and eNeuro Editors-in-Chief
    SfN Journals: Encouraging Innovation, Promoting Rigor
    Representing the collective output of many hundreds of laboratories driving to uncover solutions to related problems in neuroscience, scientific journals provide a primary venue for scientific exchange.
  • person speaking at a podium at Neuroscience 2017
    Inside Neuroscience: How the Brain Reacts to Stress
    “These days, stress is one of the most commonly used words in the English language,” said Bruce McEwen, head of the Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at Rockefeller University.

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