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2016 Volume 14 Issue 2
2016 Volume 14 : Issue 2
Editorials
OPINION — Developing Science Communication in Africa: Undergraduate and Graduate Students should be Trained and Actively Involved in Outreach Activity Development and Implementation
By TK Karikari, NA Yawson, E Quansah
OPINION — Nu Rho Psi, The National Honor Society in Neuroscience: A Decade of Progress
By ZC Hesp, GA Cousens, L Becker, MC Zee & GA Mickley
EDITORIAL — Case Studies and Neuroscience Education: Tools for Effective Teaching
By EP Wiertelak, KE Frenzel & LA Roesch
OPINION — Career Advice: Finding a Job at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution
By JJ Ramirez
OPINION — Diversity and is Inclusion
By IE Vega & M Colón-Berlingeri
EDITORIAL — Teaching as THE Oldest Profession
By BR Johnson, Editor-in-Chief
Articles
A Quantitative Examination of Undergraduate Neuroscience Majors Applying and Matriculating to Osteopathic Medical School
By RL Ramos, E Guercio, T Levitan, S O’Malley & PT Smith Supplementary Material
Incorporating an ERP Project into Undergraduate Instruction
By E Nyhus & N Curtis
The BRAIN Initiative Provides a Unifying Context for Integrating Core STEM Competencies into a Neurobiology Course
By JE Schaefer Supplementary Material
“C.R.E.A.T.E.”-ing Unique Primary-Source Research Paper Assignments for a Pleasure and Pain Course Teaching Neuroscientific Principles in a Large General Education Undergraduate Course
By RJ Bodnar, FM Rotella, I Loiacono, T Coke, K Olsson, A Barrientos, L Blachorsky, D Warshaw, A Buras, CM Sanchez, R Azad & JR Stellar
Illuminating the Undergraduate Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory: A Guide for the in vivo Application of Optogenetics in Mammalian Model Organisms
By BM Roberts, SE Jarrin, BN Mathur & AM Bailey Supplementary Material
Evaluation of Changes in Ghanaian Students’ Attitudes Towards Science Following Neuroscience Outreach Activities: A Means to Identify Effective Ways to Inspire Interest in Science Careers
By NA Yawson, AO Amankwaa, B Tali, VO Shang, EN Batu, KA Jnr, AD Fuseini, LN Tene, L Angaandi, I Blewusi, M Borbi, LNE Aduku, P Badu, H Abbey &TK Karikari
Breadboard Amplifier: Building and Using Simple Electrophysiology Equipment
By KM Crisp, H Lin & I Prosper
Using Cultured Mammalian Neurons to Study Cellular Processes and Neurodegeneration: A Suite of Undergraduate Lab Exercises
By R Catlin, A Taylor, L Ditchek, S Burnett, S Khan, O Todd, M Adams, E Touhey, A Wynkoop, & J Ryan
Lights! Camera! Action Projects!
Engaging Psychopharmacology Students in Service-based Action Projects Focusing on Student Alcohol Abuse
By S Kennedy Supplementary Material
Case Studies
Nora’s Medulla: A Problem-Based Learning Case for Neuroscience Fundamentals
By LA Roesch & K Frenzel
Media Reviews and Technical Reports
BOOK REVIEW — Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety
By Joseph LeDoux
reviewed by AL Cecala
BOOK REVIEW — Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey
By David E. Presti
reviewed by KS Milar
TECHNICAL REPORT — Running Wheel for Earthworms
WJ Wilson & BA Johnson
BOOK REVIEW — The Mind’s Machine: Foundations of Brain and Behavior
By Neil V. Watson & S. Marc Breedlove
reviewed by BR Johnson & DA Weldon
2015 Volume 14 Issue 1
2015 Volume 14 : Issue 1
Editorials
OPINION: When All the Giants Are Gone
By Ian A. Harrington
Ishi no ue ni mo san nen*: Warming to the Changing Face of Neuroscience and Neuroscience Education
By Eric P. Wiertelak, Editor-in-Chief
Articles
Psychoactive Substances Bill and Act of New Zealand: A Chance to Engage Undergraduate Scientists with Society using a Transfer Learning Paradigm
by Catherine M. Gliddon & Belinda Cridge
Snack Cake ‘Dissection’: A Flipped Classroom Exercise to Engage Undergraduates with Basic Neuroanatomy
by Todd D. Watson
Pencil-and-Paper Neural Networks: An Undergraduate Laboratory Exercise in Computational Neuroscience
by Kevin M. Crisp, Ellen N. Sutter, & Jacob A. Westerberg
Developing the Next Generation of Civic-Minded Neuroscience Scholars: Incorporating Service Learning and Advocacy Throughout a Neuroscience Program
by Cecilia M. Fox
Extracellular Recording of Light Responses from Optic Nerve Fibers and the Caudal Photoreceptor in the Crayfish
by Steven C. Nesbit, Alexander G. Van Hoof, Chi C. Le, & James R. Dearworth, Jr. Supplementary Material
Non-Fiction Memoirs in the Neuroscience Classroom: A Window into the Minds of Those Affected by Addiction
by Alexia E. Pollack
Using Tinbergen’s Four Questions as the Framework for a Neuroscience Capstone Course
by John Meitzen Supplementary Material
Undergraduate Biocuration: Developing Tomorrow’s Researchers While Mining Today’s Data
by Cassie S. Mitchell, Ashlyn Cates, Renaid B. Kim, & Sabrina K. Hollinger
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Sign Language: Engaging Undergraduate Students’ Critical Thinking Skills Using the Primary Literature
by Courtney Stevens
A Series of Computational Neuroscience Labs Increases Comfort with MATLAB
by David F. Nichols
Excitable Membranes and Action Potentials in Paramecia: An Analysis of the Electrophysiology of Ciliates
by Charles H. Schlaepfer & Ralf Wessel
Media Reviews
BOOK REVIEW:
Looking Inside the Brain: The Power of Neuroimaging
by Denis Le Bihan
reviewed by Barbara Lom
NEUROSCIENCE PAPER REVIEWS: (Peer-Selected)
An Instructor’s Guide to (Some of) the Most Amazing Papers in Neuroscience
reviewed by Ian A. Harrington, William Grisham, D. J. Brasier, Shawn P. Gallagher, Samantha S. Gizerian, Rupa G. Gordon, Megan H. Hagenauer, Monica L. Linden, Barbara Lom, Richard Olivo, Noah J. Sandstrom, Shara Stough, Ilya Vilinsky, & Michael C. Wiest
BOOK REVIEW
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
by Kristof Koch
reviewed by Ian A. Harrington
BOOK REVIEW
Tales from Both Sides of the Brain
by Michael S. Gazzaniga
reviewed by Ian A. Harrington
BOOK REVIEW
The Synapse: Structure and Function
edited by Virginia Pickel and Menahem Segal
reviewed by Neal R. Melvin
BOOK REVIEW
Waking, Dreaming, Being
by Evan Thompson
reviewed by James W. Kalat