I’m teaching an upper-level course in neurobiology this term, and as I usually do, I made all the poor suffering students go out and create blogs, and I also told them they had to write one post a week about neuroscience. Today I was asked if I was going to pharyngulate their blogs, and of course I said I would. So go forth and harrass them! A word of warning, though: as many people learned last time I did this, these are not passive, cowed students, but feisty upperclassmen who are comfortable with biting back; the worst thing you can do is be condescending or patronizing.
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neurobiology wants to know if you’d like a younger brain. These kids…yeah, sure, gloat. 
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Another blog titled Neurobiology discusses schizophrenia and GABA. 
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MandieGirl writes about the Brainbow technique. I’m not going to get to that for a few more weeks! It’s beautiful stuff, though. 
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thoughts of neuro writes about neuronal migration. This is a developmental neuroscience course, they’ll be hearing much more about that. 
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Dkmecik needs to post something. I shall nag! 
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Neuro-Tick has two posts up: a review of the paper we discussed in class last week, and something on the induction of demyelination, relevant to anyone interested in MS. 
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Synapse is about rats…rats infected with parasites. Awesome. 
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A Heathen’s Attempt at Reason tackles Notch and Delta, already getting in the spirit of molecular neurodevelopment. 
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Noggin Bloggin’ discusses recent reports on the googlization of our brains. 
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Bailey’s Blog also has two entries already: pain (why would a student think of that in the first week of classes?) and brains and the universe. 
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Jenni talks about Parkinson’s Disease. 
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Neurobiology Thoughts considers bilingualism and dementia. Learning a second language can save your brain! 
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Ginger Synapse discusses optogenetics. Let’s control our brains with the light switch! 
(Also on FtB)

