Researchers at UCSD are in the process of dissecting famous Patient H.M.’s brain on the first anniversary of his death. H.M., of course, is the anterograde amnesia patient all of us rely on so much in our discussions of the hippocampus. Many thanks to Joe Schroeder of FUN (Faculty for Read more…
The Cal Poly Neuroscience Club took a field trip today down the road to UCSB to tour the Brain Imaging Lab. Our intrepid students met on campus this morning at 7:45 a.m. (a brutal hour, so these are true Brainiacs) to meet our carpools, and then we were off! Scott Read more…
If you haven’t seen an eBook before, here’s an image from what mine looks like: One of the nice features of Cengage‘s eBooks is that you can highlight, as I’ve demonstrated in the image, and take notes. So two major barriers to using an online resource instead of buying a Read more…
In my morning mail was an interesting letter from my publisher, Cengage, in which they described a new innovation–CengageBrain.com. Using this site, students will be able to purchase or rent over 1300 of the titles published by Cengage, with even more to be added later. The letter went on to say that my Read more…
Just finished grading this quarter’s Neuro ID exam for my 90 + Biopsych students, and I’m delighted with how well they did! This is not everybody’s favorite activity–it’s rote memorization–but it makes no more sense for students to talk about neuroscience without knowing where the cingulate cortex is than to Read more…