Today we began again a Krasnow tradition that dates back to the
Institute’s first year: our brown bag series. We came together a a
whole to review (think of a journal club gone wild) the special issue
of SCIENCE magazine devoted to “The Mind”. That issue came out in
October and was timed to coincide with the Society for Neuroscience
meeting in Atlanta. I wish I could adequately convey in words the
excitement, scientific depth and sheer collegial intensity of the
discussion. New graduate students spoke out with senior full
professors. Dopamine was compared to Acetylcholine. And prefrontal
cortex became “the last frontier”. It’s a great group at Krasnow:
mathematicians, neuroscientists, physicists, philosophers, imagers,
biochemists, cell biologists…..I could go on.
Jim
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