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Blog Articles, Humans of Neuroscience, and Podcast Episodes
🎤 The Synapse Podcast: Science Based Ways to Study Better, Optimize Ep 1 with Dr. Daniel Willingham
What do our brains need to learn, and why does studying so often not work for students? Dr. Daniel Willingham is a cognitive psychologist, professor at the University of Virginia, and a Harvard University alumnus. Listen in as we discuss study methods that don’t work, ones that do, and the most important finding he’s discovered in his years of research.
👩💼 Humans of Neuroscience: Interview with Aurelia Gooden
Learn about Aurelia Gooden, a talented engineer and passionate musician, who navigates through life with four different types of synesthesia.
🎤 The Synapse Podcast: L'Exercice sur le cerveau nous donne de la puissance, Neuron y Parle
👩⚕️ Humans of Neuroscience: Interview with Dr. Aleksandra Yakhkind
“We see really sick patients on the brink of life and death. This reminds me every day to be grateful for health and the amazing things bodies can do. Sometimes we can help patients and they walk back into our unit to say hi. Other times, our technology and medicines, and tools are too limited to save them. This is really hard. I have to broach the topics of death and disability with patients and families often for the first time. I learn so much from the families and patients I meet in the ICU. I don't leave a day at work without being transformed.”
🎤 The Synapse Podcast: The Pillars of High Performance, Optimize Ep 2 with Dr. Greg Wells
Everyone nowadays is looking for quick fixes to studying, to fitness, and to wellness - but we know that long term wellness isn't made through quick, one time fixes. Join us in conversation with Dr. Greg Wells, a performance physiologist and Associate Professor at the University of Toronto who is also an avid athlete, bestselling author, and CEO of Wells Performance, a consulting firm dedicated to helping individuals and corporations achieve their potential. We discuss the foundations of high performance, such as meditation, achieving quality sleep, falling in love with the process, and finding balance over time.
✍️ Blog: NFL Football & Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): An Overview
“As injury prevention is a priority for the NFL while maintaining the same high-intensity persona of the sport, rules have been changed over time involving the manner in which players may tackle and hit one another. Despite these precautions, players who have been involved with the league for multiple years beforehand and have incurred head-to-head contact may pose a risk for a specific adverse health outcome known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).”
🎤 The Synapse Podcast: Les neurosciences derrière les rêves, Neuron y Parle
✍️ Blog: Are Psychedelics the New Mental Health Revolution?
“The last few decades of neuroscience and psychology have experienced a revival in scientific and public interest in psychedelics, a remarkable and mysterious class of hallucinogenic drugs that, through neuroplasticity and psychological experiential novelty, have had positive effects on treating mental health disorders. Psychedelics also spur important conversations about ethics, such as the need to enhance informed consent or re-evaluate religious and cultural sensitivities.”
Broader Community Events and Opportunities
✍️ Rolling (in-person): Summer Writing Intern for The Transmitter
🎨 Rolling (in-person): Summer Art Intern for The Transmitter
👨🏫 Rolling (in-person): BrainCamp Kosovo Teaching Opportunity
👂 Rolling: Research Scientist Internship in Hearing Science and Auditory Perception at Meta
🎨 March 6th Deadline: Science Talk ‘24 Conference Art Submissions
❤️ March 8th at 4 am ET: Brain-heart interactions at the edges of consciousness by Diego Candia-Rivera
📣 March 9th at 10 am ET (in-person): NYC Science Education and Outreach Symposium
🏋️ March 12th at 2 pm ET: Boosting the Brain with Exercise with Pacific Neuroscience Institute
👩🎨 March 13th at 2 pm ET: De-stress and Activate Your Creativity with Brain Doodles
🧠 March 13th at 5 pm ET: Memory Post Brain Injury with Dr. Sean Robb
⚖️ March 14th at 8 pm ET: The Problem of Brain Death and the Meaning of Persons
🧘 March 14-17th: Neuroscience and Yoga Online Conference
😴 March 15th at 9 am ET: Introduction to Pediatric Sleep Disorders to the Non-Sleep Specialist
🧠 March 15th Deadline: Synapse National Leadership Team Application
💻 March 17th Deadline: NeuroMatch Computational Neuroscience TA Application
👩💻 March 24th Deadline: NeuroMatch Computational Neuroscience Student Application
🕵️ March 25th at 5:30 am ET: How to tell if someone is hiding something from you? An overview of the scientific basis of deception and concealed information detection
💼 March 25th Deadline: Project Coordinator of Scientific Design at IndiaBioscience application
🤖 March 27th at 3 pm ET: Dana Dialogue Series - When Brains and Computers Connect
🧠 April 24th: 6th Annual NCAA-DoD Grand Alliance Concussion Conference
🧬 May 1st Deadline: Ashoka International Summer Research Program (AISRP)
📝 May 1st Deadline: HFC Humans of Dementia Scholarship
🏅 July 5th Deadline: Neuroethics Essay Contest Submissions
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