“Improving health outcomes through neuroscience means focusing on mental health.” Arati Prabhakar, PhD, director of OSTP, speaks on the Biden administration’s national strategy toward tackling the mental health crisis. Read the full Q&A in the latest issue of Neuroscience Quarterly. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4asBK0J #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #MentalHealthMonth
Society for Neuroscience
Non-profit Organizations
Washington, DC, DC 114,245 followers
The largest nonprofit membership organization of scientists and physicians who study the brain and the nervous system.
About us
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is the world's largest organization of scientists and physicians devoted to advancing understanding of the brain and nervous system. A membership society, SfN has grown from 500 members in 1969 to nearly 35,000 in 80+ countries today. SfN promotes scientific exchange through its annual meeting, which attracts more than 30,000 attendees from around the globe, and its scientific publications, eNeuro and The Journal of Neuroscience. SfN also supports the neuroscience community through professional development programming and is dedicated to sharing the excitement and progress of scientific discovery through public information and outreach. SfN advocates for policies that advance science and improve health, such as ensuring strong national investments in research and the responsible use of animals in research.
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http://www.sfn.org
External link for Society for Neuroscience
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Washington, DC, DC
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1969
- Specialties
- Neuroscience, Research, Molecular Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Clinical Neuroscience, Optogenetics, Social Neuroscience, Transdifferentiation, Affective neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Neuroinformatics, Neurophysiology, Neurolinguistics, Neuroimaging, Developmental neuroscience, and Cultural neuroscience
Locations
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Primary
1121 14th Street NW
Suite 1010
Washington, DC, DC 20005, US
Employees at Society for Neuroscience
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Gina R. Poe
Director, Brain Research Institute and Lorre Scholars Professor, UCLA
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Doug Van Sant
Senior Digital Strategy Manager and Professional Photographer
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Jake Laden
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at Society for Neuroscience
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David Lindeman, CFRE, GPC
Nonprofit Fundraising and Grantwriting Specialist
Updates
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Hundreds of trainees benefit from the TPDA each year! Hear how the award empowered Maria Jalil, TPDA awardee, to network with leaders in the field and gain essential career skills. Check your eligibility and apply now! ▶️ https://bit.ly/3wBPFnk
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Voting in SfN’s 2024 Officer’s and Councilors elections gives emeritus, regular, and postdoc members a chance to influence the priorities and direction of our community. 📨 Check your email for a passcode and log in to the voting system. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/44HgT8I
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#eNeuro blog Beyond the Paper | Mahima Sharma, currently advancing her research career at the Buck Institute, emphasizes how interdisciplinary collaboration is critical for extending benchwork science translatability as we discuss her first author eNeuro publication. ▶️ https://bit.ly/3QNzVEu
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🚨📢 Action Alert! Funding cuts threaten the #BRAINInitiative's progress in accelerating the tools and technologies needed to understand neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's and depression. Use SfN's advocacy action center to urge your U.S. Member of Congress to invest $740 million toward the #BRAINInitiative in FY2025 to keep brain research moving forward. Make your voice heard: https://bit.ly/4dK74uQ #NeuroAdvocate
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This Week in The Journal #JNeurosci | Mechanistic Insight on Dysfunctional Glia in a Drosophila Model of Huntington's Disease; Integrating Modeling and Empirical Data to Understand FC-ERPs. Learn More: https://bit.ly/3WFcP6L
This Week in The Journal
jneurosci.org
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#SnapshotsinNeuroscience | Featured on the #eNeuro blog, two images of tree shrew retinas from Grannonico et al. captured with in vivo optical coherence tomography and ex vivo confocal imaging revealing densely packed, vertically elongated, and stratified axon bundles that are more like axon bundles in humans than in mice. 📷 Image 1: Retina captured with ex vivo confocal imaging. Credit: Marta Grannonico and Migna Liu. 📷 Image 2: Retina captured with in vivo optical coherence tomography. Credit: Marta Grannonico and David A Miller. 🔗 https://bit.ly/3QOHE5s
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📣 SfN’s 2024 Officers and Councilors election is now open! Emeritus, regular, and postdoc members can help elect leaders that will shape future programs, events, and more. 📨 Check your email for a passcode and log in to the voting system. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/44HgT8I
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Join Yizhou Lyu, Zishan Su, and Yuan Chang Leong, for a discussion on their paper, “Hostile Attribution Bias Shapes Neural Synchrony in the Left Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex during Ambiguous Social Narratives” with #JNeurosci Reviewing Editor Daniela Schiller, in the upcoming #ResearchInConversation webinar. Register now for a chance to join this interactive session with a live Q&A! ▶️ https://bit.ly/4dEIGL2
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The applications for the Trainee Professional Development Award are now open! Submitted an abstract for #SfN24? You may be eligible. Present your research, secure travel funding, and gain access to exclusive professional development opportunities. Apply now! ▶️ https://bit.ly/3wBPFnk