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We are in the process of planning events for Spring 2022. Please let us know if you have any suggestions or requests for things you'd like to see from us, as we want to accommodate our members!

End of Semester Game Night

  7:00-8:30 pm | FO 1.202

Have fun and de-stress before finals week at our End of Semester Game Night! Feel free to bring your own games in addition to the ones we will provide.

general meeting 4B: State Anxiety VS. Trait Anxiety Journal Club 

  7:30-8:30 pm | FN 2.102

Join us for socialization, NSA updates, and a fun and educational journal club! NSA member Abigael Desta is leading us through an exciting presentation about whether generalizability theory can be used to distinguish between state anxiety and trait anxiety. Hope to see you at the last general meeting of the Fall semester!

general meeting 4A: Cell Localization journal club 

  7:30-8:30 pm | SSA 12.471

Join us for socialization, NSA updates, and a fun and educational journal club! NSA member George Kidane will explain to us how gene expression and the role of stimulated axon release can help promote cell localization. 

Sweet Hut Social Event

7-8:30 pm| 2001 Coit Rd suite 301, Plano, TX 75075

Join us for a fun social event at Sweet Hut Bakery & Cafe in Plano! We will be drinking boba tea, eating sweet treats, playing games, and getting to know each other! Address is listed above. Message in GroupMe or email us if you need a ride!

The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's

Site Opens at 7:30 am | Ceremony at 8:30 am | Walk at 9:00 am | Dallas City Hall Plaza | 1500 Marilla St Dallas, TX 75201

Join us as we volunteer at The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's! The goal of the walk is to raise funds and awareness for a breakthrough in the fight against Alzheimer's and all other dementia. All local events will implement safety protocols including physical distancing, contactless registration, hand sanitizing stations and more. Per CDC guidelines around crowded outdoor settings, we ask that all walk attendees be vaccinated against COVID-19 or wear a mask when in an overcrowded area. Masks will be available on-site. Route Length: 5K.

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Sign up to volunteer using this link: https://forms.gle/N3RVsWjAG9D3jyLK9

For more info, ask an officer or contact Bailey Roach at 214-540-2405 or broach@alz.org.

general meeting 3B: Spider Phobia journal club 

7:30-8:30 pm | FN 2.102

Join us for socialization, NSA updates, and a journal club presented by our Vice President, Grace Moore, about spider phobias! How do phobias influence the order in which we perceive different stimuli? Attend this journal club to find out!

general meeting 3A: Spider Phobia journal club 

7:30-8:30 pm | SSA 12.471

Join us for socialization, NSA updates, and a journal club presented by our Vice President, Grace Moore, about spider phobias! How do phobias influence the order in which we perceive different stimuli? Attend this journal club to find out!

Pumpkin Painting Craft Night!

  7:30-8:30 pm | FO 2.208

Join us for a fun social event including pumpkin painting, spooky coloring pages, Halloween music, and more! You'll even get to take home your own pumpkin!

general meeting 2B: journal club on the Role of Reward in Language Acquisition

7:30-8:30 pm | FN 2.102

Join us for socialization, NSA updates, and a fun and educational journal club!

Not only do humans have the ability to learn language, but it seems like we have a natural inclination to do so. What's the neurological mechanism for driving the behavior to learn language? Is it just happenstance that humans pick up language, or is there a motivational drive behind it? Find out during this journal club!

general meeting 2A: Baylor College of Medicine INFO sESSION

7:30-8:30 pm | SSA 12.471

Join us for an information session presented by Robert Stephens, MNM, the Associate Director of Admissions at the Baylor College of Medicine (BCM)! The presentation will focus on an overview of the BCM Graduate School, Texas Medical Center (TMC), and specifics on the Neuroscience Ph.D. program.  We will also be discussing summer undergraduate research and post-bac opportunities.

• BCM is the 2nd-fastest growing research institution in North America

• BCM is ranked 5th in the nation in funding for neuroscience research

• Grad School of Biomed Sci has state-of-the-art research facilities for molecular neurobiology, neurochemistry, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, biophysics, behavioral neuroscience, optical imaging, functional human brain imaging and computer science.

general meeting 1B: journal club on social rewards

7:30-8:30 pm | FN 2.102

Enjoying new friendships or catching up with old ones? Join us in our discussion about social rewards we experience through social decision making and conversations. We will explore neurological pathways that affect our emotions as well as areas of the brain that are activated. Find out why you feel a sense of familiarity to someone who says your name in conversation.

general meeting 1A: journal club on social rewards

7:30-8:30 pm | SSA 12.471

Enjoying new friendships or catching up with old ones? Join us in our discussion about social rewards we experience through social decision making and conversations. We will explore neurological pathways that affect our emotions as well as areas of the brain that are activated. Find out why you feel a sense of familiarity to someone who says your name in conversation.

NSA Game night 2

  7-8:30 pm | Microsoft Teams

   Join NSA for a fun-filled night as we meet virtually to play games!

Skribbl.io, Among Us, Jackbox Games, Codenames, and SpyFall are all some of the games we play. 

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medical student neurology interest group panel

7-8 pm | Zoom 

   Join NSA and the Student Interest Group of Neurology (SIGN) from UT Southwestern Medical School in a student panel discussing their experience in medical school at UTSW and their interest in neurology with a Q & A segment.

brain awareness week (BAW) journal club

Green fellow analia marzoratti

Examining the neural circuit that mediates salience computation in Drosophilia

  7-8 pm | Microsoft Teams

Join NSA, Memories Matter, and  Brain Exercise Initiative (BEI) in our Brain Awareness Week celebrations! Green Fellow and future UVA PhD candidate Analia Marzoratti will present her project from working at UTSW.  She is pursuing a PhD in the Educational Psychology- Applied Developmental Science Program.

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Poster Presentation

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Abstract

Things can stand out in the environment (or be considered salient) for many reasons, so the brain circuits that process salience must be flexible and complex. The brains in Drosophila fruit flies help us investigate how these mechanisms might work because of their simplicity, and their well-defined level of individual neurons and circuits. In this study, we used optogenetic techniques to breed flies with proteins targeted to specific individual cells in a compartment implicated in salience computation that allowed us to silence them using red light. By running these flies through an assay where control flies showed alerting behavior, we were able to see whether silencing any of these cells eliminated this behavior. This allowed us to examine if and how these cells were involved in circuitry for salience.

brain awareness week (BAW)

MD & PhD Panel

  6 pm | Zoom

Join NSA, Memories Matter, and  Brain Exercise Initiative (BEI) in our Brain Awareness Week celebrations! Our panelists will speak about their innovative research studies and their previously accomplished work.

Featuring

Joseph Kass, MD, JD, FAAN

Maria Chahrour, PhD

Joel Elmquist DVM, PhD

brain awareness week (BAW)

Neuroanatomy & Sheep brain presentation

  6 pm | Zoom

Join NSA, Memories Matter, and  Brain Exercise Initiative (BEI) in our Brain Awareness Week celebrations! Guest speakers Dr. Ana Solodkin and Dr. Rukhsana Sultana will present on the neuroanatomy of the sheep brain.

Book club meeting #2

are you sure?

the unconscious origins of certainty

Virginia cambell, md

  7-8 pm | Microsoft Teams

Join the GroupMe to discuss the book outside of the actual meetings if you are interested !
The free copy of the book can be found here.

Information on options to purchase the book can be found here.

The book is split into 3 parts and we will be discussing each part with their corresponding meeting.

NSA Game night 2

  7-8:30 pm | Microsoft Teams

   Join NSA for a fun-filled night as we meet virtually to play games!

Skribbl.io, Among Us, Jackbox Games, Codenames, and SpyFall are all some of the games we play. 

brain awareness week (BAW)

Game night

  6:30-7:30 pm | Microsoft Teams

Join NSA, Memories Matter, and  Brain Exercise Initiative (BEI) in our Brain Awareness Week celebrations!

We will play Jeopardy, brain bingo, and skribbl.io!

Book club meeting #1

are you sure?

the unconscious origins of certainty

Virginia cambell, md

  7-8 pm | Microsoft Teams

Join the GroupMe to discuss the book outside of the actual meetings if you are interested!

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The free copy of the book can be found here.

Information on options to purchase the book can be found here.
 

The book is split into 3 parts and we will be discussing each part with their corresponding meeting.

Second general meeting:

amyloid-beta plaques & tau aggregates in alzheimer's

  7-8 pm | Microsoft Teams

NSA member, Eric Bellinghausen will present on the link between amyloid-beta plaques and tau aggregates in Alzheimer's Disease.

NSA Game night 1

  7-8:30 pm | Microsoft Teams

  Join NSA for a fun-filled night as we meet virtually to play games!

Skribbl.io, Among Us, Jackbox Games, Codenames, and SpyFall are all some of the games we play. Of course, we are open to suggestions.

first spring general meeting:

neuroimmune interactions & Chronic pain in COVID-19 patients

7-8 pm | Microsoft Teams

Slideshow presentation here!

Welcome back everyone! We look forward to meeting with all of you.

Grace Moore, our Event Coordinator, will present some of her work from the Center for Advanced Pain Studies. She and her team investigate neuroimmune interactions that cause chronic pain in people who previously had COVID-19.

Let us know what you wanna see/do!

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Let us know what you'd like to see NSA do via our email utdnsa@gmail.com or leave a comment here. Otherwise, be patient; there's more coming down the tube.