Neuroscience and Society

The Society for Neuroscience and the Undergraduate

Suppose you are in your first year as an assistant professor-in your dream job in a small liberal arts college-with an assignment to teach a course in neuroscience to a class of eager, bright, upper-level undergraduates. Amongst the resources that you might expect to tap would be, perhaps, the Web site of the Society for Neuroscience (www.sfn.org). Maybe you have had experience with the Web sit...

Neuroscience 2012 : Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience

Society for Neuroscience--37th Annual Meeting.

New research has found that some of the brain abnormalities and behaviors associated with autism also are present in the parents and siblings of individuals with the disorder. Rare mutations on a specific gene appear to be risk factors for autism. Scientists have also discovered that avoidance of eye contact with other people is not, as previously believed, a primary cause of the social impairm...

International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Program/abstracts

s of the International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, Volume 11, June 2002

Between Soma and Society: Neuroscience and the Ontology of Psychopathy

Contemporary neuroscience links together soma and society in complex ways, casting the brain as the locus of a matrix of reciprocal interactions between soma and society. Accordingly, critiques of such research which revolve around its perceived ‘reductionism’ and ‘determinism’ are rendered somewhat problematic. That is not to say, however, that a critical sociology of neuroscience is redundant...