Journal Neuroscience&Cognition

03/05/2022

Dear All,

Today we are thankful to one of our sponsors: Helmholtz Institute!

"The Helmholtz Research School provides PhD training and education in the brain and cognition domain. Based at Utrecht University (UU), the Helmholtz Institute unites scientists whose research is at the intersection of brain and cognition, based on the premise that for many questions about cognition and behavior it is essential to take brain function into account."

Read more here: https://helmholtzschool.nl/

06/04/2022

Dear All,

Today we'd like to thank another one of our sponsors: PerkinElmer!

"With about 14,000 employees worldwide, we pioneer scientific technologies for better detection, imaging, and informatics to help our customers make a profound impact on the world. We provide support with advanced services to ensure optimal operations."

Read more here: https://lnkd.in/fV9rq5b

11/03/2022

Dear all,

Today we'd like to highlight and thank another one of our sponsors: the Graduate School of Life Sciences!

The Graduate School organises all Utrecht University Master's and PhD programmes focused on micro-organisms, plants, animals, humans, the molecules of life, and health & disease. The GSLS highly values interdisciplinary research and aims to train Master's students and PhD candidates to engage in independent research at a multidisciplinary stage.

Read more here: https://www.uu.nl/en/education/graduate-school-of-life-sciences/about-us

16/02/2022

Dear all,

Today we'd like to thank one of our sponsors: Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (UiL-OTS)!

The UiL OTS is the home of linguistic and communications research at Utrecht University, where they explore various questions with the help of a large team of researchers.

28/01/2022

Dear all,

We are delighted to inform you of the board renewal for 2022!

Our theme of this issue is… BIAS: our Best Interventions Affect Science. Looking forward to all the contributions!

Greetings,
The PR team 2022 🧠

07/09/2021

We are happy to announce that the first issue of this year's Journal is finally available online on our website! 🥳

Check it out here: http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/archive/27

01/03/2021

We've come to the end of our board's individual presentations. Lastly, we want you to meet our editor: Catarina!🤩

“Hi everybody, I’m Catarina. I am one of the Editors of this year's Journal, and I couldn’t be more excited to be a part of this amazing team. I am eager to read all the pieces within my function and learn more and more about Neuroscience. I am originally from Brazil and moving to the Netherlands was a challenge, but a super nice one! My hobbies include cooking (COVID helped my skills), running, listening to a lot of music, and being surrounded by my friends as much as I can. A fun fact is that I am a musical expert so if you ever want to challenge me, put some random songs and I will be able to tell from which Musical it is! I hope you enjoy reading this Journal as much as I’m enjoying building it.”

📸 Chanel Sam

22/02/2021

Here we go with designer number two: Chanel! 🤩

"Hey everyone! My name is Chanel and I’m the second person in the design team of this years board. This means that I can get very creative with our favorite topic: neuroscience. Besides, I get the opportunity to discover drawing on a computer which turns out to be really cool. Other then the journal I like to fill my time with my friends or doing some out of the ordinary project, like homeschooling myself in finance or something very relaxing like taking care of all my plants. I’m looking forward to the end products of this year, they will be awesome!"

15/02/2021

The other half of PR is our dear Jana. Besides PR, she is one of our editor. Get ready to get to know Jana! 🤩

“Hi, my name is Jana and I am looking forward to being an Editor and PR co-manager for the Journal this upcoming year. During this time I will review the content to be published, whilst maintaining good relations with our sponsors. In my free time I like to cook, paint, and read. Last year I realised that I almost exclusively read biographies: apparently I love to read about other people’s lives (though this might be a side effect of lockdowns). Another hobby of mine is hiking, though I was slightly scared on a hiking trip in Australia when a wombat pi**ed in my sleeping bag the first night...”

📸Chanel Sam

08/02/2021

Tonight we would like to introduce Sara, who is one of our Design members! 🤩

“Hi all, I’m Sara. As a member of the design team, I have a great opportunity to learn something new and to embrace the more creative part of me. Apart from being fascinated with the brain and its remarkable cognitive capacity, my hobbies include modeling, reading, and spending time with friends (ideally over some delicious food). Fun fact about me: I have a special talent for recognizing faces, I always know the actor in the movie and where he had acted before. I am very excited to be a part of this awesome team and to create two issues of this year's Journal for you!”

📸 by Chanel Sam

01/02/2021

Here we go with another one! Haydn, one of our editors and also into the PR of the journal! 🤩

“Hi my name is Haydn and I am this year's Editor and PR for the Journal of Neuroscience. It's amazing that, as a group, we can share ideas through the medium of a journal to bring to light all the outstanding work that is done within this field. I am originally from the UK and have enjoyed moving away and recommend it to everyone. Outside of academics I am a very active and sporty person and very social, friendship is something I value the most. I used to really enjoy going clubbing and to festivals. I'm hoping that very soon we can have our social lives back!"

📸 Chanel Sam

25/01/2021

This evening we would like you to meet our editor Lotte, who is also responsible for the Journal's finance! 🤩

“Hi! I’m Lotte and I’m an editor of this year’s journal board. I’m super excited to be part of this amazing journal and to create two fascinating issues. Apart from my interest in neuroscience, I like playing sports which perfectly balances out my guilty pleasure: chocolate. I also love cooking, especially while dancing and singing to music. During my free time, I also read a lot of books. I really hope you will enjoy the coming journal issues!”

📸 by Chanel Sam

18/01/2021

Today we would like to introduce you to our Secretary Vera! 🤩

“Hi! I’m Vera and I’m the secretary of this year’s editorial board. I’m very excited to contribute to two amazing new issues of the Journal of Neuroscience & Cognition this year! Whenever I’m not busy with the Journal or studying the brain, I like to read books, do yoga and go on long walks in nature. I also love to embroider and to create collage art. However, currently, I spend a lot of (too much?) time on Netflix rewatching Breaking Bad for the 5th time... I blame lockdown! Anyway, I truly hope you enjoy this year’s issues of the Journal!”

📸 by Chanel Sam

11/01/2021

We are excited to introduce our new board in the following weeks, starting with our Chief Editor Nina! 🤩

“Hi everyone, I’m Nina and I will be the editor in chief of the Journal of N&C for the coming year! I’m truly happy to have the opportunity to challenge myself within this position, and to come up with two fascinating and creative journals! Besides my interests in social neuroscience, I really enjoy music: by either listening to it at a festival or making some myself with my guitar. When I’m tired because of a long day behind my computer screen, I give in to one of my guilty pleasures: rewatching friends over and over again! But I certainly can’t wait until it is possible to finish the day at a sunny terrace with a specialty beer in my hands!”

📸 by Chanel Sam

17/11/2020

Hello fellow students!

Our time as the 2019-2020 N&C Journal board is sadly coming to an end, but before we hand our tasks to the board of 2020-2021, we can proudly present to you the second issue of volume 14! It is filled with reviews, interviews and more interesting surprises based around the topic 'Mindblowing: Hidden Treasures in Neurosciene'. Click the following link to view our online version: http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/archive/26

You received more information about the theme reveal and how you can receive your real life copy in your student email. We want to thank you for your support this year!

Kind regards,
Ivana, Isabelle, Karis, Dasha, Alberto, Alexandra, Oxana & Esmée🧠

Review A puzzle to solve: Reconstructing the functional anatomy of C-low threshold mechanoreceptors ascending pathway - D. Keller

11/10/2020

Great news! You had to wait a little longer, but our first edition is finally online for everyone to see! View the content dedicated to the Reclassification of Psychiatric Disorders by clicking on the link below.

In the meantime we are still busy finishing our second edition, more information soon! ✨

http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/archive/25

Research Article Association between infarct location and post-stroke cognitive impairment: A large-scale lesion-symptom mapping study – A. Kancheva

22/07/2020

Hi fellow students!!

We are very excited on behalf of the whole board of the Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition 2020 to finally reveal the theme of the first issue of this year's Journal to you!🥳🎉

Again, a big thank you to all the students who helped us create such an interesting edition of the Journal of N&C.🙏🏻🌞

To tune you in on the get-together tomorrow we have prepared a small surprise.🎁 Because this year we cannot reveal our theme with a release party we created a short video🎥 instead. In the video, we will also tell you more about the content and the process of creating this special edition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC8OxBCCYCE&feature=youtu.be

Please click on the link above, relax and enjoy the video 🙂

If you cannot wait any longer to read the new edition of the Journal after watching the video you can pick up your copy of the journal tomorrow at 4.30 pm next to the barbecue/wooden benches area of the Cambridgelaan student accommodation (Woonbestuur Cambridgelaan). Luckily the weather forecast for tomorrow is great 🌤️ which means that the get-together will take place.

Hope to see you all tomorrow! 🧠

Due to the measures taken by the Dutch government to fight COVID-19 and the restriction on gatherings, the Journal of Neuroscience & Cognition decided to sho...

09/06/2020

We woud like to remind you to fill in a short question about your interests in Neuroscience. You can find the question through the link below or via the QR code. You will help us a lot! ✨

https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/5FEB633D-355E-4925-9C58-CEEC57452859

29/05/2020

Maybe you have seen us during the Mind the Brain symposium, but in case you missed us you can rewatch the video here! We are excited to hear about your writing assignments, webinar experiences and research papers 🧠📨

28/05/2020

10/05/2020

Hi fellow students! 🧠
The board is working hard on putting together the journal and information about the first edition will come soon!
In the meantime we are searching for interesting and inspiring webinars for you to attend. If you want to keep broadening your views on Neuroscience, you can take a look at the webinars we are collecting for you at: http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/seminars

For example: upcoming Wednesday (13th of May) there is a webinar on 'Psychological and Neurocognitive Research on Psychedelics'. If you are interested take a look on the site for more information! 🧬🧫🧠✨

04/02/2020

Lastly, we want you to meet our second Design member from the journal: Esmée! ✨

"It has been always extremely fascinating to me how we know so much of the brain- but still so little. It really captures the complexity of how the brain works and how it is responsible for everything we are. By working together with people with a different background, we are able to accomplish way more than we would on our own. I am proud that I can be a part of this field and help adding more pieces to the puzzle that is the brain."

31/01/2020

We are introducing one of our Design members of the board: Oxana ✨

‘The human brain has always been very interesting to me and attending lectures and reading several scientific books of famous neurobiologists, like Dick Swaab and Eric Kandel, allowed this interest to become a real passion. I think it is really fascinating how different cellular structures, which make up our brain, can give rise to such a complex behaviour. In order to investigate the brain thoroughly molecular biologists, clinicians, and psychologists work together to unravel all the mysteries of this precious organ. Joining the board of the journal of Neuroscience and Cognition allows me to join in a comparable interdisciplinary team. I think the journal is a great way for master students
to broaden their horizons of ongoing neuroscience research in Utrecht and abroad; something which I'd love to contribute to.'

26/01/2020

This evening we are introducing to you our last editor: Alexandra ✨

“I find it interesting to investigate the complexity of Neuroscience from multiple disciplines; not only to know how the nervous system works, but also to investigate different aspects of the system, like the molecular processes that contribute to the working of the nervous system and the observed behaviour that is visible. I like how every discipline has a voice of their own, but more importantly, how they are all connected and can complement each other. I love being able to participate in the journal where Neuroscience and Cognition students, with many different educational backgrounds can connect, learn and complement each other. It’s a great platform to share our expertise with each other and unravel the complexity of Neuroscience together”

22/01/2020

It’s been a while, but today we want you to meet one of our editors: Dasha! ✨

'As a medical doctor in training with an interest in research, I aspire to help patients and to gather more knowledge about their underlying disease. Neurology has caught my particular interest, since the variable expression of a neurological disease has a great impact on people’s lives. The master Neuroscience and Cognition allows me to gain more scientific knowledge in my favourite field of research, which hopefully will enable me to combine both clinical practise and research in the future. Joining the board of the journal of Neuroscience and Cognition means to me taking part in a scientific community which shares important results, ideas and opinions, which I think is indispensable for practising good research.'

20/01/2020

Dear Neuroscience enthusiasts,

This Thursday (23 January 2020) a new GSLS Life Science Seminar will take place at 16:00h at the Megaron Lecture Hall at the Educatorium. During this broad topic seminar Stefan Braam, startup incubation lead at UtrechtInc, will provide us with useful information concerning science-based startups and entrepeneurship.

Hope to see you all there!

For more information about this seminar please visit: http://studyguidelifesciences.nl/seminars

More upcoming Neuroscience related seminars can be found on: http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/seminars

All Life Sciences Seminars start at 16:00 h, unless stated otherwise.Life Sciences Seminars are a part of the compulsory Life Sciences Academy (LSA) module: BMB509718, GSLS-ACAD since September 2018. Did you start earlier? Please scroll down.

13/01/2020

Dear Neuroscience enthusiasts,

Monday next week (20 January 2020) the UMC Utrecht Brain Center has organised a seminar on the increasing amount of data usage in hospitals. Several speakers will provide the audience with their vision on artificial intelligence in hospitals for curing brain disorders. Questions about ethics, personal medicine and the future of the modern medicine will all be covered during this interesting evening.

Please be aware that the talks will be in Dutch.

Tickets (€9 incl. 2 drinks) available at https://tickets.tivolivredenburg.nl/webshop/webticket/bestseatselect?eventId=2578&language=nl =2.72097808.2021723264.1578900089-351548268.1578900089

Hope to see you all there!

For more information about this seminar please visit:
https://www.tivolivredenburg.nl/agenda/hersenziekten-20-01-2020/

More upcoming Neuroscience related seminars can be found on: http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/seminars

10/01/2020

We would like you to introduce you all to one of our editors of the board! Meet: Alberto! ✨

'Neuroscience is a fast moving field and new groundbreaking discoveries are published every other month. One of the peculiarities of neuroscience is its being multifaceted; here biologists, physicists, psychologists, medical doctors and physiologists meet to study the organ defined by many as the most complex. This is what fascinates me most about research in neuroscience, combining the efforts of different experts with a common goal.’

09/01/2020

Dear Neuroscience and Cognition students,

As you all know, the board of Journal of Neuroscience and Cognition is now very busy collecting content for the first issue of the 2019-2020 journal. We already have some great contributors, for which we are very thankful. However, we can still use some interesting content. So if you have a spare article (both review article and research articles are welcome), or if you have a great idea/piece/etc. to write something about, please contact us here or via [email protected]. Either way this will be a valuable addition to your CV.

We are also looking for some students who would like to be a reviewer for one of the articles. This only takes few hours in total, so if you would like to do this, please send an email to [email protected]!

For more information we direct you to our website: http://journal.neuroscience-cognition.org/. Here you can find the guidelines and more information about being a contributor. Or send us an email!

About the Journal The Journal of Neuroscience & Cognition is an internal report of the Master Programme “Neuroscience and Cognition” of Utrecht University (NL). Its main aim is to give its students a first grasp of the world of publishing. Two issues are released each year, as well as an abstra...

05/01/2020

We would like to introduce you to our P&R and editor: Karis! ✨

“I have experienced first-hand the effects psychiatric disorders can have on an individual and those around them. This was a huge aspect as to why I chose to pursue a master’s in Neuroscience and Cognition. Joining the journal was a great way to meet fellow students from various bachelor backgrounds, and as a group has given us the opportunity to work together and combine ideas, whilst also gaining an understanding of relevant topics from many different perspectives. Which will be a key aspect of working in a research environment in the future!”