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UPCOMING VIRTUAL PANEL
OCTOBER
21
2024
In Conversation with Open Mind, a No-fee Open Access Journal in Cognitive Science
1:00 - 2:00 P.M. EDT
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UPCOMING CONFERENCE
May
14
2025
MAY 2025
The Society for Philosophy and Neuroscience (SPAN)
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
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Upcoming Online Seminars

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Upcoming Webinar
Oct
17
2024
Belinda Pletzer | Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg (PLUS), Austria
Characterizing hormone sensitivity along the menstrual cycle and during hormonal contraceptive use
10:15 A.M. EDT
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Upcoming Webinar
Oct
25
2024
Hardy Rideout | Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens
LRRK2 – a master regulator of neurodegeneration: acting on multiple systems including neuroinflammatory signaling, vesicular trafficking, and cell death pathways
06:00 A.M. EDT
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Upcoming Webinar
Oct
25
2024
Vikram Gadagkar & Arthur Leblois | Columbia University Resp. University of Bordeaux,
Basal Ganglia in Songbirds
10:00 A.M. EDT
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Portrait of insect-cognition researcher Martin Giurfa.
Neuroethology

Martín Giurfa y la idea de hogar

By Gina Jiménez
20 August 2024 | 15 min read
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Illustration of a lab with a smoking crater in the middle of the floor.

A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.

Science is built on trust. What happens when someone destroys it?

By Calli McMurray
4 October 2024 | 27 min listen
Research image of green and purple mouse brain slices.
Brain stimulation

Putting a bright idea to the test

A surprising wave of findings in mice suggests that light and sound flickering at 40 hertz clears the brain of Alzheimer’s-disease-linked plaques. Several companies are hoping to prove it works in people.

By Shaena Montanari
21 August 2024 | 11 min read
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