Speaking of Neuroscience

A selection of notable quotes from the annual Society for Neuroscience meeting

Written byJef Akst and Mary Beth Aberlin
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Walter Koroshetz, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) director, on the process of science

Nora Volkow, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) director

Bosiljka Tasic, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Emery Brown, MIT

Timothy Miller, Washington University in St. Louis

Giselle Petzinger, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine

Angela Cacace, Bristol-Myers Squibb

David Julius, University of California, San Francisco, before delivering his invited lecture “Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway”

Cheryl Stucky, Medical College of Wisconsin

Barbara Sorg, Washington State University Vancouver, introducing a minisymposium on perineuronal nets and neural plasticity

Hongjun Song, Johns Hopkins University

Nina Kraus, Northwestern University

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