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Leadership Applications Now Open!

Applications for the 2019-2020 Grey Matters leadership team are now open! Available positions include Editing Coordinator, Production Manager, Design Director, Events Coordinator, Marketing Manager, and Website Manager. Applications are due

Of Computers and Brains

Earlier this summer [1] , Gary Marcus – a New York University professor of neural science and psychology – wrote a very influential piece for the New York Times called Face It, Your

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Decisions, Decisions…

How did you get here? Every person who is reading this article made a different set of decisions that led them to this point in time. The path of cumulative

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Evening with Neuroscience 2015

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Alien Hand Syndrome

It’s a disorder that makes you fling your cereal away, undress yourself in public, steal merchandise, and even look dangerous to the rest of the world. For over five

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Grey Matters’ Clothing & Food Drive

Donation collection: December 1st and the 3rd-5th from noon to 3:00 p.m. in Red Square. Look for the Grey Matters table. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The time of winter is fast

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SfN 2014’s Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society Presentation

With the holidays approaching, homes will soon be filled with foods to fit the season. The smells and tastes of traditional holiday cuisines have the power to conjure up memories

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Attention: How a Possible Function of SSRIs Could Be Staring Us in the Face

When TV commercials sing the famous jingle, “Nausea, heartburn, indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea,” Pepto Bismol fans rejoice. There’s an appreciation out there when multiple problems have a single solution.

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Food for Thought: How Your Brain Controls What You Eat

One of the most frequent decisions we make is what to eat, but just because it’s a common task doesn’t mean it’s a simple one—at least

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Tapeworms on the Brain

For most people, the mere thought of a parasite setting up residence in their tissues is enough to induce a serious case of the creeps. There is something particularly horrifying

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Grey Matters Welcome Meeting

Grey Matters Journal is having a welcome party meeting. Come learn more about the journal, our work, and how you can get involved. We will meet Thursday, October 2 at 6:30 p.m. in Allen Library [https://greymattersjournal.org/grey-matters-welcome-meeting/uw.edu/maps/

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Know Your Claustrum!

Figure 1 A general schematic of the claustrum, as shown in the Crick and Koch paper “What is the function of the claustrum?” It seems like consciousness is always on

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Spring Quarter Welcome Meeting

Hello Neuroscience Enthusiasts, Spring is here! Let’s celebrate the sunshine and cherry blossoms by geeking out about the brain. Grey Matters is an undergraduate neuroscience journal whose mission is to enhance public understanding, grow the neuroscience community, and develop accomplished science communicators. You

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Love Actually (it’s neuroscience)

Love is an insane neurochemical flood. For those of us lucky enough to have experienced it, this comes as no surprise. A wide variety of neurochemicals have been implicated in

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SfN Day 4 | Mechanisms of Adult Neuroplasticity

Image Credit: Tamily Weissman, Harvard Those who have been reading carefully these past few days may have noticed the emergence of a theme in my reports. After starting with the way the tissue in the midbrain responds to changes in cellular and molecular signals

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SfN Day 3 | Dr. Jeff Lichtman’s Presidential Lecture on Connectomics

It is clear that not all wiring in our nervous system is genetic. People are not born with the capacity to cook a soufflé, play the piano, or ride a

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SfN, Day 2

Today’s topic of interest was Learning and Memory – particularly the ways in which memories are stored. For many years it was commonly accepted that a memory was physically represented

Issue 1

A Short History of Mind Control

Image Copyright 2013 R.P.N. Rao and A. Stocco [http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~rao/brain2brain/index.html] Research on remotely controlling the brain has been going on for awhile now, and has recently advanced to staggering heights. In 2002, a team at

Issue 1

More Modularity

Although it does not hold true for all circumstances, the theory of a brain that exhibits modular localization of functions has been demonstrated in many studies. MRI and PET imaging techniques have been used to identify patterns in how the brain responds to behavior,

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Research Brief: The Bosma Lab

The Bosma Lab focuses primarily on characterizing electrical events in the developing brainstem (specifically the hindbrain and midbrain), using the mouse as a model. With help from a fluorescent dye that binds to calcium (an ion implicated in neuronal firing), spontaneous, synchronized events can

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Leadership Applications Now Open!

Of Computers and Brains

Decisions, Decisions…

Evening with Neuroscience 2015

Alien Hand Syndrome

Grey Matters’ Clothing & Food Drive

SfN 2014’s Dialogues Between Neuroscience and Society Presentation

Attention: How a Possible Function of SSRIs Could Be Staring Us in the Face

Food for Thought: How Your Brain Controls What You Eat

Tapeworms on the Brain

Grey Matters Welcome Meeting

Know Your Claustrum!

Spring Quarter Welcome Meeting

Love Actually (it’s neuroscience)

SfN Day 4 | Mechanisms of Adult Neuroplasticity

SfN Day 3 | Dr. Jeff Lichtman’s Presidential Lecture on Connectomics

SfN, Day 2

A Short History of Mind Control

More Modularity

Research Brief: The Bosma Lab

Online Articles

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