Ishi no ue ni mo san nen(*) : Warming to the Changing Face of Neuroscience and Neuroscience Education.

The start of a new academic year and the changing seasons brings more than Autumn color. At the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience, the Fall issue now also reflects back on the past year of neuroscience publishing, with a review section that features numerous book reviews. Harrington contributes two reviews; Koch's Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist and Gazzanaga's Tales from Both Sides of the Brain. Kalat looks at Thompson's Waking, Dreaming, Being, while Lom examines Denis Le Bihan's Looking Inside the Brain: The Power of Neuroimaging. Melvin reviews The Synapse: Structure and Function, edited by Pickel and Segal. Rounding out the review section, Harrington returns once more in this issue, leading a cohort of coauthors to examine what truly are amazing papers in neuroscience. The issue features 11 regular articles, which collectively display the breadth and depth of current best practices in undergraduate neuroscience education. Crisp et al. and Nichols provide separate articles detailing exercises in computational neuroscience; one paper-and-pencil, one using MATLAB. Nesbit describes how we may record caudal photoreceptor and optic nerve responses in crayfish; Schlaepfer and Wessel contribute labs examining the electrophysiology of paramecia. Mitchell takes on the topic of data mining with undergraduates, while Watson makes use of snack cakes to drive home lessons in basic neuroanatomy. In classroom exercises, the range of neuroscience education is truly represented well. Service learning is examined by Fox in the pursuit of developing civic-minded neuroscientists, while Gliddon and Cridge make use of drug legislation to engage neuroscience students with society. Stevens examines the cognitive neuroscience of sign language to develop critical thinking skills, and Pollock makes use of memoir to give students a view into the minds of those affected by addiction. Meitzen returns some of us to the lessons of Tinbergen's four questions, and examines this for a new cohort of young neuroscientists. Last but not least, this issue's major contributor Harrington muses on the years to come in neuroscience when the remaining luminary neuroscience researchers of today are no longer with us. Over the past three years, I've had the good fortune to serve the undergraduate neuroscience community as the Editor-in-Chief of JUNE. In that time, I've worked with 271 authors and coauthors-and more than twice as many reviewers-to see 97 regular articles, 19 reviews and 14 editorials and opinion articles make their way toward publication. Each of these articles, reviews, and editorials are available not only …