Interviews

Peer Support Program for graduate neuroscience students at McGill

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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Silencing pain with light

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

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

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

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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