This year’s winners are C. David Allis, Michael Grunstein, John Glen, and Joan Steitz.

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

Bill Bowman, champion of modern anesthetics and the founding professor of pharmacology at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, has passed away at age 83.

Analyses of brain activity patterns show that different drugs induce anesthesia via a common neural mechanism.

Measuring consciousness; unethical data splitting; the deliciousness of beer; autism mutations linked to cannabinoid signaling; arming animals against electron microscopes

Researchers are identifying distinctive brain activity patterns that can be used to monitor patients under anesthesia and assess consciousness in “vegetative” patients.