Archives
2018 Volume 16: Issue 3
2018 Volume 16: Issue 3
Editorials
EDITORIAL: Best Practices for Developing, Assessing, and Sustaining Inclusive Curricula: Proceedings of the 2017 Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience Workshop
By Calin-Jageman RJ, Calin-Jageman IE, Martinez Acosta V, Hardwick J, Johnson BR & Wiertelak EP
PERSPECTIVE: This is Not Your Grandmother’s Faculty Development Program
By Mack KM
PERSPECTIVE: Integrating Addiction in the Neuroscience Curriculum
By Napier TC
PERSPECTIVE: Support for Undergraduate Neuroscience at the NSF and NIH
Carpenter EM & Henken DB
Articles
Cartoon Network Update: New features for exploring of neural circuits
By Calin-Jageman RJ
Open Source Software Tools for Teaching Neuroscience
By Latimer B, Bergin D, Guntu V, Schulz D & Nair S
Demystifying Graduate School: Navigating a PhD in Neuroscience and Beyond
By McLoon LK & Redish AD
Recording EMG Signals on a Computer Sound Card
By Crisp KM
“Doing” the Reading: What Neuroscience Instructors Should Know about Reading Compliance and Comprehension in College
By Cressman J
Specific Aims Workshop: Your Grant in a Sound Bite
By Kozlowski DA & Rose JK
Supplementary Material
NeuroBytes Electronic Neuron Simulators and the 2017 FUN Summer Workshop
By Burdo JR
Using Online Images to Teach Quantitative Skills via Comparative Neuroanatomy: Applying the Directives of Vision and Change
By Grisham W, Greta S, Burre A, Tomita W, Rostamian D, Schottler N & Krull JL
Supplementary Material #1
Supplementary Material #2
The New Blueprints: Undergraduate Neuroscience Education in the Twenty-First Century
By Wiertelak EP, Hardwick J, Kerchner M, Parfitt K & Ramirez JJ
A Discussion of Diversity and Inclusivity at the Institutional Level: The Need For a Strategic Plan
By Martinez Acosta VG & Favero CB
The Allen Brain Atlas as a Resource for Teaching Undergraduate Neuroscience
By Gilbert TL
Building an Inclusive Classroom
By Penner MR
Supplementary Material
Expanding Collaborations between the Neuroscience Training Committee of the Society for Neuroscience and the Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience
By Dunbar GL & Symonds L
Reducing the Cost of Electrophysiology in the Teaching Laboratory
By Wyttenbach RA, Johnson BR & Hoy RR
Muscle Spindles and Our Sense of Physical Self: Kinesthetic Illusions of Limb Position and Posture
By Schiller B, Colgan W III, Calderon B & Johnson BR
Probing Synaptic Transmission and Behavior in Drosophila with Optogenetics: A Laboratory Exercise
By Vilinsky I, Hibbard KL, Johnson BR & Deitcher DL
Supplementary Material – Video
2018 Volume 16: Issue 2
2018 Volume 16: Issue 2
Editorials
FROM OUR CHIEF EDITOR: Active Learning for Students and Faculty
By Johnson BR, Editor-in-Chief
PERSPECTIVE: The New Statistics for Neuroscience Majors: Thinking in Effect Sizes
By Calin-Jageman RJ
OPINION: Teaching Neuroanatomy Through a Historical Context
By Neuwirth LS, Dacius Jr. TF & Mukherji BR
Articles
Clinical Neuroscience in Practice: An Experiential Learning Course for Undergraduates Offered by Neurosurgeons and Neuroscientists
By Simonds GR, Marvin EA, Apfel LS, Elias Z, Howes GA, Witcher MR, Weaver EN, Fraser JC, Synkowski JJ, Prickett JT, Rogers CM, Busch CM, Benko MJ, Sou N, Churning MJ, Summers DC & Sontheimer H
Using Blogs as Practice Writing About Original Neuroscience Papers Enhances Students’ Confidence in Their Critical Analysis of Research
By Spix TA & Brasier DJ
Supplementary Material #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8
A Simple Method for Teaching Bayesian Hypothesis Testing in the Brain and Behavioral Sciences
By Faulkenberry TJ
The Design, Implementation, and Assessment of an Undergraduate Neurobiology Course using a Project-Based Approach
By Zwick M
Supplementary Material
A Low-Cost Morris Water Maze for Undergraduate Research: Construction and Demonstration in a Rat Model of Obesity-Induced Diabetes
By Gallivan LM & Schmitzer-Torbert N
Supplementary Material
Using Optogenetics to Understand Neuronal Mechanisms Underlying Behavior in C. elegans
By Pokala N & Glater EE
Supplementary Material
Partnerships in Neuroscience Research Between Small Colleges and Large Institutions: A Case Study
By McCoy JG, Yu HJ, Niznikiewicz M, McKenna JT & Strecker RE
The Olfactory Proboscis Extension Response in the Honey Bee: A Laboratory Exercise in Classical Conditioning
By Van Nest BN
Supplementary Material #1 #2
Aversive and Appetitive Learning in Drosophila Larvae: A Simple and Powerful Suite of Laboratory Modules for Classroom or Open-ended Research Projects
By Pavin A, Fain K, DeHart A & Sitaraman D
Supplementary Material
Using ImageJ to Assess Neurite Outgrowth in Mammalian Cell Cultures: Research Data Quantification Exercises in Undergraduate Neuroscience Lab
By Pemberton K, Mersman B, Xu F
Supplementary Material #1 #2 #3 #4
Case Studies
CASE STUDY: Epilepsy and the Action Potential: Using Case Based Instruction and Primary Literature in a Neurobiology Course
By Sawyer NT & Frenzel KE
Media Reviews
REVIEW: On the Application of Multivariate Statistical and Data Mining Analyses to Data in Neuroscience
By Smith PF
TECHNICAL REPORT: Using a Model to Understand the Symptoms of Ophthalmoplegia
By Wood AJ & Dayal MR
Supplementary Material
TECHNICAL PAPER: Constructing an Inexpensive Elevated Plus Maze
By Fox GA, Torigoe E & Butcher GQ
AMAZING PAPERS IN NEUROSCIENCE:
Characteristics, Emergent Properties and Functions of Somato-dendritic T- and L-Type Calcium Channels
By Cleland CL
One Brain. Two Minds? Many Questions.
By Rosen V
The Grasshopper Mouse and Bark Scorpion: Evolutionary Biology Meets Pain Modulation and Selective Receptor Inactivation
By Thompson BM
Reviewing the Diverse Effects of Protein Phosphorylation in Neural Signaling Transduction
By Scurfield AK
Faces in the Brain: The Discovery of a Neuronal Subpopulation Selective for Face Recognition
By Febery J
2017, Volume 16: Issue 1
2017 Volume 16: Issue 1
Editorials
FROM OUR CHIEF EDITOR: For the FUN of It
By Johnson BR, Editor-in-Chief
PERSPECTIVE: After p Values: The New Statistics for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education
By Calin-Jageman RJ
PERSPECTIVE: Devising a Method to Study if Wernicke’s Aphasia Patients are Aware that They Do Not Comprehend Language or Speak It Understandably
By Hartman K, Peluzzo A, Shadani S, Chellquist I, Weprin S, Hunt H, Smith-Benjamin S & Altschuler EL
WORKSHOP REPORT: The University of Ibadan/Grass Foundation Workshop in Neuroscience Teaching
By Dzakpasu R, Johnson BR & Olopade JO
Articles
An Interactive Simulation Program for Exploring Computational Models of Auto-Associative Memory
By Fink CG
Supplementary Material
Diversity of Graduates from Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degree Neuroscience Programs in the United States
By Ramos RL, Alviña K, & Martinez LR
A Case Study in the Use of Primary Literature in the Context of Authentic Learning Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Classroom
By O’Keeffe GW & McCarthy MM
Measuring Salivary Alpha-Amylase in the Undergraduate Neuroscience Laboratory
By Bañuelos MS, Musleh A, & Olson LE
An Attitudinal Survey of Undergraduate Neuroscience Students Regarding Their Views on the Relevance of Lectures to their Education
By O’Keeffe GW, Sullivan AM & McCarthy MM
Using the Tools of Behavioral Neuroscience to Determine the Identity of Different Mouse Strains in a Laboratory Course
By Wotton JM & Ferragamo MJ
Cartoon Network: A Tool for Open-Ended Exploration of Neural Circuits
By Calin-Jageman RJ
Supplementary Material
“Brevity is the Soul of Wit”: Use of a Stepwise Project to Teach Concise Scientific Writing
By Cyr NE
Supplementary Material
Using Action-Mapping to Design a Non-Majors Neuroeconomics Course to Teach First-Year Collegiate Skills
By Franssen CL, Lowry GS & Franssen RA
Supplementary Material
Characterizing the Undergraduate Neuroscience Major in the U. S.: An Examination of Course Requirements and Institution-Program Associations
By Pinard-Welyczko KM, Garrison ACS, Ramos RL & Carter BS
Supplementary Material #1: Complete Data Set for Institutions with Neuroscience Majors
Supplementary Material #2: Institutions without Undergraduate Neuroscience Majors
Supplementary Material #3: List of Institutions with Neuroscience-related Majors by Different Names
Supplementary Material #4: Heatmap of Correlations between all 30 Collected Variables
Teaching with Big Data: Report from the 2016 Society for Neuroscience Teaching Workshop
By Grisham W, Brumberg JC, Gilbert T, Lanyon L, Williams RW & Olivo R
Integrating Brain Science into Health Studies: An Interdisciplinary Course in Contemplative Neuroscience and Yoga
By Wolfe U & Moran A
Supplementary Material
Learning Experimental Design through Targeted Student-Centric Journal Club with Screencasting
By Carter BS, Hamilton DE & Thompson RC
Supplementary Material 1
Supplementary Material 2
Supplementary Material 3
Interviewing Neuroscientists for an Undergraduate Honors Project
By Montiel C & Meitzen J
Supplementary Material 1
Supplementary Material 2
Supplementary Material 3
Front and Back Flipping for Neurobiology! Developing a Hybrid Upper-Division Lab Course
By White AO, Javier LK, Goldberg NR, Boucquey V, Overman J, Ochaba J, Marsh S, Huffmanb D & Nicholas A
An Integrative Approach to STEM Concepts in an Introductory Neuroscience Course: Gains in Interdisciplinary Awareness
By Basu AC, Mondoux MA, Whitt JL, Isaacs AK & Narita T
Supplementary Material 1
Supplementary Material 2
Case Studies
Media Reviews
A Guerilla Guide to Common Problems in ‘Neurostatistics’: Essential Statistical Topics in Neuroscience
By Smith PF
AMAZING PAPERS IN NEUROSCIENCE: Three Scientific Controversies to Engage Students in Reading Primary Literature
By Brasier DJ
Supplementary Material #1
Supplementary Material #2