Speaking of Neuroscience

A selection of notable quotes from the Society for Neuroscience meeting

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Jerome Siegel, University of California, Los Angeles, responding to a question from The Scientist’s Bob Grant about how his own sleep habits have changed since conducting a study on sleep patterns in pre-industrial societies in Africa and South America.

Allison Brager, Morehouse School of Medicine, during a talk about her studies tracking the effects of knocking out a skeletal muscle gene on circadian clocks and sleep homeostatic processes.

Georgia Hodes, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in a talk about sex differences in the activation of the nucleus accumbens’s transcriptome in response to stress.

Debra Bangasser, Temple University, during the introduction to a symposium comprising presentations of research that dealt with sex differences in stress.

—Eve Van Cauter, University of Chicago, during a presentation ...

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  • From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.

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