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- Just a few more day to submit to the undergraduate Art in Neuroscience competition! Students, get your art work submitted. Winners are published on the Intro to BN textbook website!
- Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads. Winners are published on our textbook website! Due Nov 1. Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
- Attention, undergrad neuro enthusiasts! We are excited to announce our first annual Art in Neuroscience competition. We are seeking art submissions related to #neuroscience from current undergrads. Winners are published on our textbook website! Due Nov 1. Guidelines here: tinyurl.com/AiNrules
- Re-upping this post as a reminder for all those instructors starting to realize (read: panic) that Fall is almost here. Intro to BN has great (and free!) in class application problems you can add to your Neuro classes.
- Open educational resources are free, but are they any good? Checkout this metanalysis! link.springer.com/article/10.1... Overall: 1) Students in classes that used OERs achieved the same or better learning outcomes as those in classes without OERs 2) Students and faculty liked using OERs!
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- Did you know: 25% of US college students worked extra hours to pay for textbooks; 11% skipped meals! 65% didn't get a textbook because of cost! Instructors, you can stop this madness. Use open ed resources. Eliminate book cost as a barrier to education. Source: educationdata.org/average-cost...
- Spotlight: How do you miss a gorilla in the room? How do you decide to skip the big party so you can study for an exam? These seem like different questions but they are both tied to Attention & Executive function. Learn about it in Ch 19 from author Kevin Wilson! tinyurl.com/itobnch19
- Calcium imaging. It kinda sounds like scifi to say you can see calcium. But it's real! Calcium imaging tools fluoresce when lots of calcium is around and watching these glowing waves can help tell us what brain cells are up to. Check out this video by Jamie Jontes to see how! youtu.be/xAmpopXWXuY
- I can remember my preschool best friend's birthday but not where I parked my gosh darn car. What's up with that? Memory is weird. And cool! Learn more about it in Ch 18 Learning and Memory by Amy Griffin. tinyurl.com/ItoBNch18 #Neuroscience
- Looking for a textbook for your fall course in #Neuroscience? How about a free one? Intro to Behavioral Neuroscience is a completely free, online text perfect for many introductory, college-level neuroscience classes. Use one chapter or all 19. openstax.org/details/book...
- Spotlight: That Neuroimmunology, it's so hot right now. But how can you teach it to students who may not be ready to dive into a Nature paper? We've got you covered! Ch 17 by @sbilbo.bsky.social covers #neuroimmunology basics for entry level undergrads. Free to anyone here: tinyurl.com/itobnch17
- Hey, that's us! Read more here about our open access neuroscience textbook and what we have to offer for your courses.
- Are you frustrated with the cost of college textbooks? @thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum. Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD
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- Spotlight: Balance is important. From the levels of oxygen in our blood to our caloric intake, maintaining a stable internal environment is critical for our survival. Learn more about this process of Homeostasis in Ch16 by Matt Carter. #neuroscience #homeostasis tinyurl.com/itobnch16
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- Today we start a method series focusing on ways to change brain activity in animal models. Let's start with neurotoxic lesions. Watch this video by Daniel McCallum to learn about how we use lesions of tiny bits of brain to figure out what behaviors different regions support. youtu.be/EqQwjmsktbA
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- Spotlight: Are you sleeping well nowadays? Sleep is an integral part of our #circadianrhythm. Organisms that don't sleep also show biological rhythms, even bacteria! Learn more in Ch 15 Biological Rhythms & Sleep by @mahoneymeg.bsky.social & @docofclocks.bsky.social tinyurl.com/itobnc15
- Synaptic vesicles are ~40 nm wide. How do we even see something that small, much less measure it? Transmission electron microscopy! Learn more about TEM in this methods video by Samuel Kim and Louisa Dal Cengio. #electronmicroscopy #neuroscience youtu.be/FtVvpRKGJsw
- Spotlight: Drugs can powerfully change the brain. Sometimes this is a medical miracle, relieving pain or anxiety. But too much of any drug can be toxic and some drugs lead to addiction. Learn more in Ch14 Psychopharmacology by Dr. @shivonrobinson.bsky.social! tinyurl.com/itobnch14
- We almost let the day slip away without posting about an open ed. resource in #Neuroscience. Almost! Check out this Neuroanatomy lab: nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroanatomy... It's got oodles of illustrations and self-quizzes where you click on pictures of brains! Appears to be for undergrad-level neuro.
- Today seems like a good day to promote more open educational resources in #neuroscience. Reducing costs to students reduces barriers to success. Here's one: This free resource covers a breadth of neuro topics with a notable cell/molecular focus. nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience...
- Spotlight: How are you feeling today? Our brains produce a wide range of emotions. Mostly those emotions are adaptive and help us make decisions. But sometimes they are not. Learn more about the #neuroscience of Emotion in Ch 13 Emotion and Mood by Cedric Williams. tinyurl.com/itobnch13
- The electrochemical dance of the brain underpins what we think and how we move. But how do we measure the electric part? Watch & learn how electrophysiology reveals electric activity in whole circuits or even single cells in this methods video by Meretta Hanson and Jason Wester! youtu.be/5bHBi-U6jlk
- Spotlight: Exams. Deadlines. Traffic. Feeling stressed yet? There is fascinating neuroscience behind stress. And many misconceptions too. Some stress is actually beneficial, for ex. Learn all about it in Ch 12 Stress by S. Muroy, MJ Ko, H Jaques &D Kaufer! #neuroscience #stress tinyurl.com/itobnch12
- Spotlight: Sex is complicated. It depends on genes, hormones and environment. And it is separate from the human construct of gender. Learn about the neuroscience of sex differentiation/differences in Ch11 Sex. Behav. & Devel. by @nduquewilckens.bsky.social #SABV #neuroscience tinyurl.com/itobnch11
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- Spotlight: Want to flip like Simone Biles? Or run like Noah Lyles? Well, this chapter won't actually help with that. But, Ch 10 Motor Control by Michael Sandstrom will show you how our brain cooks up motor plans and gets our muscles to execute them! Check it out! #neuroscience tinyurl.com/itobnch10
- Transgenic organisms have transformed how life sciences research is approached. But what is a transgenic organism? And how do we use them in neuroscience? Our methods video by Carleton U. PhD student Andrea Smith helps explain this at the undergrad intro level! youtu.be/FRXbmH0MLRU
- Spotlight: A welcome hug. Getting hit in the face with a snowball. Burning your tongue on hot coffee. Touch and pain are potent sensory experiences, often with great influence on our emotions. Learn more about it in Ch 9 Touch & Pain by Yuan Bo Peng. #neuroscience openstax.org/books/introd...
- Spotlight: Ever noticed that food loses flavor when you have a cold. What's up with that? Your perception of flavor is not one sense. It is a mixing of taste, smell and chemosensation. Read about it in Ch8 Chemical Senses by Joe Zak & @jakesaunders.bsky.social tinyurl.com/itobnch8 #neuroscience
- Bonus: meet the authors and hear a bit about why they find the chemical senses so exciting! Dr. Saunders: youtu.be/1OR_cShjqbw Dr. Zak: youtu.be/7ag8Bv8CH28
