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.

• neurobiology wants to know if you’d like a younger brain. These kids…yeah, sure, gloat.

• Another blog titled Neurobiology discusses schizophrenia and GABA.

• MandieGirl writes about the Brainbow technique. I’m not going to get to that for a few more weeks! It’s beautiful stuff, though.

• thoughts of neuro writes about neuronal migration. This is a developmental neuroscience course, they’ll be hearing much more about that.

• Dkmecik needs to post something. I shall nag!

• 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.

• Synapse is about rats…rats infected with parasites. Awesome.

• A Heathen’s Attempt at Reason tackles Notch and Delta, already getting in the spirit of molecular neurodevelopment.

• Noggin Bloggin’ discusses recent reports on the googlization of our brains.

• 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.

• Jenni talks about Parkinson’s Disease.

• Neurobiology Thoughts considers bilingualism and dementia. Learning a second language can save your brain!

• Ginger Synapse discusses optogenetics. Let’s control our brains with the light switch!

(Also on FtB)