By Graduate Neuroscience Students At McGill
As an academic, have you ever found yourself not wanting to go to a scientific conference? This year, I wasn’t sure I should submit an abstract for the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), and the closer the date of the conference was, the less energy and motivation I felt to attend it. […]
What if you’re too tired to go to a conference? (Still go!) Read More »
Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen report that giving melatonin prior to chemotherapy treatment prevents nerve damage and development of chemotherapy-induced pain in rats. A recent study published in the Journal of Pineal Research revealed that melatonin – a drug commonly used to ease the side effects of jet, can help in
A new study shows that jet lag drug could ease chemotherapy induced pain Read More »
Who doesn’t like an occasional initiation ritual? Celebrate, recalibrate, and step right into that brave new year, together with your customized list of dreams and plans (woohoo…). Number one on my 2018 resolutions list is to finish all experiments for my dissertation (yay to unrealistic timelines!). Number two is to invest time and energy into
Back in 2013, a year before I submitted my Master’s thesis, I wrote an overly long e-mail to a McGill professor who was doing the exact research I was interested in. I presented myself, talked about my interest in his work, and asked whether he’d be willing to take me on as a PhD student.
Rotating to your best PhD Read More »
Want to make some polished figures and posters but don’t want to pay for expensive software? Inkscape is a free, open-source image-editing program like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Freehand, or Xara X. It’s a flexible and advanced tool, but sometimes all of that flexibility can be intimidating. Anastasia Sares put together a list of super-helpful tips
Inkscape for scientists: tips & tricks Read More »
Many of us in the Integrated Program in Neuroscience are (or have been) volunteers for an organization called Brain Reach, which pairs graduate student presenters to elementary and high school classes for a series of neuroscience workshops. Here the NeuroBlog editor Anastasia Sares interviewed Max Wolpert, looking back on his experience as a Brain Reach
BrainReach: Giving back as a neuroscientist Read More »
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
Peer Support Program for graduate neuroscience students at McGill Read More »
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.
What can neuroscientists do against the stigma around mental illness? Read More »
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
Do I deserve to be a PhD student? A discussion about the impostor phenomenon Read More »
Happy New Year neurograds! We asked about your resolutions for this year – from graduate research to life outside of the lab. We’ve combined them below, along with some of our own resolutions and tips. Here’s to a better year ahead! Engage Try something new: a new technique in lab, a planning system, a genre
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