iranian neuroscientists community (irnsc)

Iranian Neuroscientists Community (IRNSC)

DREADDs for Neuroscientists

To understand brain function, it is essential that we discover how cellular signaling specifies normal and pathological brain function. In this regard, chemogenetic technologies represent valuable platforms for manipulating neuronal and non-neuronal signal transduction in a cell-type-specific fashion in freely moving animals. Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs (DREADD)-b...

Poisson Processes for Neuroscientists

This note is an introduction to the key properties of Poisson processes, which are extensively used to simulate spike trains. For being mathematical idealizations, Poisson processes rely on some simplifying assumptions that limit their scope of application. The best way to understand these limitations is perhaps by constructing the Poisson process gradually starting from the intuitively clear s...

Take four neuroscientists

Colin Blakemore What is your advice to a neuroscience PhD student? Think long and hard about whether you want to commit yourself to a career in scientific neuroscience. There are limited resources, grants, jobs and ideas. The sort of people who can’t live without research are the sort of people who will have the enthusiasm to continue. Also, it is very easy to get bogged down in the intricacies...

Neuroscientists need neuroethics teaching.

With the advancement of neurosciences in recent years, there is a growing need to ensure that its students are educated in applied neuroethics as part of their formal studies. However, neuroethics education is not commonly an integrated part of neuroscience training. Discussions we have had with members of the Russell group, an association of the 20 major researchintensive universities in the U...

Wanted: opinionated neuroscientists

Neural Systems & Circuits is embarking on a new venture: we want to gauge the opinion of the community on a range of issues, both technical and ethical, surrounding modern neuroscience. Issues such as the benefits (and pitfalls) of integrating theory and experiment, working with large datasets, and open science. We will be inviting opinion pieces from leaders in many different areas of theoreti...