Fall 2005

Professors Mark Braford, Michael Loose, Cathy McCormick, Dennison Smith, Jan Thornton, and Lecturer Albert Borroni of the Neuroscience Department attended the 35th Annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washinton, D.C., November 12-16, 2005.

Michael Loose presented an abstract titled, "Modifying the probability of a Go stimulus prior to each stimulus presentation alters the N2 component of event-related potentials"

Cathy McCormick presented a reserach poster titled, "Otolith endorgan input to auditory projection neurons in the goldfish: A confocal microscopic analysis. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 31: 35", Wallace, A.C. and C.A. McCormick 2005

Dennison Smith participated in a panel discussion of "Careers in Neuroscience".

Jan Thornton presented a reserch poster titled, ""Defeminization of behavior in male guinea pigs is not due to prenatal estrogens", I.O. White, A. Getzin, and JE Thornton

The Society for Neuroscience is a nonprofit membership organization of basic scientists and physicians who study the brain and nervous system. Neuroscience includes the study of brain development, sensation and perception, learning and memory, movement, sleep, stress, aging and neurological and psychiatric disorders. It also includes the molecules, cells and genes responsible for nervous system functioning. Recognizing the tremendous potential for the study of the brain and nervous system as a separate field, the Society was formed in 1970. It has grown from 500 members to more than 36,000 and is the world's largest organization of scientists devoted to the study of the brain."

For more information, visit their website at http://apu.sfn.org