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Peer Support Program for graduate neuroscience students at McGill

Grad Student's life, Interviews /

The GSAN Peer Support program is organized by and for IPN students as additional resource of psychological support available for graduate students on campus. Anastasia Glushko talked to Daniel Almeida, GSAN’s Psychological Wellbeing Officer, about the mechanics of the program and the role of peer support in graduate studies. Anastasia (A): For a start, what is the peer support […]

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What can neuroscientists do against the stigma around mental illness?

Mental Health /

Upon waking yesterday, I made my usual morning coffee and opened my laptop for a routine social media check. The Twitter feed was less regular: every second post featured Bell Let’s Talk day. In 2010, Bell launched a campaign to raise awareness of mental health issues and to prevent and reduce the stigma around them.

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Do I deserve to be a PhD student? A discussion about the impostor phenomenon

Grad Student's life, Mental Health /

Do you feel like everyone in your program or department is more intelligent than you? You may be experiencing impostor phenomenon. Anastasia Sares summed up the main characteristics of the phenomenon for the NeuroBlog and collected real data from a short questionnaire administered to IPN students. Enjoy! In the 1970s, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes

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Silencing pain with light

Interviews, Neuroscience Research /

The NeuroBlog is interviewing again! We’re excited to have the opportunity of speaking with Ihab Daou, an accomplished PhD student in Dr. Philippe Seguela’s lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute. In February 2016, Ihab first-authored an article describing a novel transgenic mouse model in which terminals of primary nociceptive fibers can be silenced using optogenetic techniques. In their

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Your brain on biased decision-making

Interviews, Neuroscience Research /

In our latest post, we introduce you to some very recent research conducted by Avinash Vaidya, who has just defended his Ph.D. thesis in Dr. Lesley Fellows’ lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Avinash worked with patients with frontal lobe lesions on topics related to decision-making. His first-authored paper in Nature Communications investigates the neural circuitry underlying fixation-based value

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From 1D to 2D in the electrophysiology of the human retina

Interviews, Neuroscience Research /

Our new interview is with Mathieu Gauvin, Ph.D. student supervised by Dr. Pierre Lachapelle at the McGill Visual Electrophysiology Laboratory and Clinic. Mathieu works on the development of new methods for studying retinal function to better understand both normal and impaired visual processing. His findings (published in the Journal of Vision) show how using some cutting-edge techniques when

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Cortical sources of the “subcortical” auditory processing

Interviews, Neuroscience Research /

Finally, we are starting to post interviews with our fellow graduate students in neuroscience at McGill! The first Q&A session we held was with Emily Coffey, Ph.D. student in the lab of Dr. Robert Zatorre. Earlier this year, Emily’s first-authored article based on her magnetoencephalography (MEG) investigation of the auditory frequency-following response (FFR) was published in Nature Communications.

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