International College of Affective NeuroScience
Social Neuroscience Faculty position at Indiana University
Jul 30th
A position in faculty which has become available in Social Neuroscience at Indiana University. It is a terrific opportunity , as they have 3T MRI and a high-density EEG and TMS lab as part of their Imaging Research Facility.
Here is the weblink with further information:
ADAA Conference: Abstract submission
Jul 30th
The online submission site for ADAA (Anxiety Disorder Association of America) Annual Conference is open (online submission site). The deadline is September 8 for workshops, symposia and oral presentations; November 22 for posters. This is the only conference focusing on treatment and basic and clinical research of anxiety and related mental and physical disorders in children and adults.
For more information you can e-mail your questions at tmkeane@bu.edu.
Assistant/associate professor in social neuroscience,Indiana University
Jul 30th
Indiana University has announced a tenure-track job opening at the assistant or associate professor level. They are looking for someone in social neuroscience: the intersection of research interests in traditional topics of social psychology (such as emotions, attitudes, or social perception) with research methods involving fMRI or EEG/TMS.
The closing date is November 1.
Information about the department and the university is available at www.iub.edu.
Research Assistant Position Available
Jul 21st
Prof. Angela Gutchess in the Psychology department at Brandeis University is looking for a Research Assistant. The Research Assistant will coordinate behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) data collection for studies of aging, culture, and memory. The position involves traveling to collect data at the off-site fMRI center with other members of the research team, in addition to scheduling and testing participants for studies at the laboratory. Coordination of office tasks as needed, including screening of potential research participants, data coding, stimulus creation, coordinating student research assistants, and administrative duties.
For more information on the Psychology department, please visit the following website :
http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/
Or the Aging, Culture, and Cognition Laboratory at:
http://www.brandeis.edu/gutchess/
To apply:
http://www.brandeis.edu/humanresources/jobs/external.html
Or you can view and apply for this job at:
https://careers.brandeis.edu/psp/CAREERS/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=501054&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1
Astrocyte´s new role in controlling breathing
Jul 20th
A recent study published in Science highlights the role of astrocytes, star-shaped cells found in the brain and spinal cord, in regulating respiration by ’sensing’ changes in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood and stimulating neurons to regulate respiration.
Astrocytes have been traditionally thought to just provide structural and metabolic support for other cells, so this new information adds an unexpected role in controlling breathing.
Find a link to the paper abstract here
Find a comment on Nature news about this topic here
Research scholarship for Postdoctoral studies
Jul 19th
Karolinska Institute announced a research scholarship for Postdoctoral studies in Social&Affective Cognitive Neuroscience They are seeking a highly talented, innovative and enthusiastic researcher with a PhD awarded within the last three years in Social or Affective Cognitive Neuroscience or related disciplines to work on behavioural and/or fMRI projects related to the interplay between body self-perception and social and affective cognitive processes. Specifically, they are looking for somebody to use ‘out-of-body illusion’ and the ‘body-swapping illusion’ (Ehrsson 2007 Science; Petkova & Ehrsson 2008 PLOS ONE) as novel tools to investigate the role of owning a body for social cognition and the affective self-image. The research will be conducted at the Brain, Body and Self Laboratory (www.ehrssonlab.se) at the Department of Neuroscience and Stockholm Brain Institute, under the supervision of Dr Henrik Ehrsson and Dr. Andreas Olsson. For further details about the research project and stipulations of the scholarship, please contact: Dr. Henrik Ehrsson (Henrik.ehrsson@ki.se)
“World Conference on Learning, teaching and administration”
Jul 14th
The submission of proposals is open for the “WORLD CONFERENCE ON LEARNING, TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATION “ which will take place on October 29-31, 2010, at the American University in Cairo in Egypt.
Colleagues, researchers, academicians, graduate students, teachers and project leaders around the world are invited to submit their original research articles and review papers to this leading international conference
The proceedings of the conference will be published in Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences Journal by ELSEVIER (www.elsevier.com) and will be indexed ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI Web of Science).
Nature Special: Science Metrics
Jun 25th
Last week, Nature dedicated its section “Nature Specials” to Science Metrics, the way the scientific community measures the value of scientific output, from the citation index to the h-index and more. Do they work? Are they fair?
Quite a lot of the content can be accessed online for free here
2008/2009 Impact Factor Just Came Out
Jun 19th
Some days ago, the 2008/2009 Journal Citation Reports of ISI Web of Knowledge have been published.
Journal Citation Reports are composed of two parts: the Science Edition and the Social Sciences Edition, in which journals are ranked according their impact factor during the last year.
In the Science Edition, we can find a category called “Neurosciences”, with three journals of the Nature Publishing Group in the top 5 journals of this category; with Nature Reviews Neuroscience having the highest impact factor in this category during the last year
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience (26.483)
- Annual Review of Neuroscience (24.822)
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (19.045)
- Molecular Psychiatry (15.049)
- Nature Neuroscience (14.345)
Other well-known journals include the American Journal of Psychiatry (12.522) and the Archives of General Psychiatry (12.257), listed in 2nd and 3d place in the category “Psychiatry”, with, again, Molecular Psychiatry in the top one of this category.
Affective Neuroscience: a new scientific discipline
Jun 11th
Affective Neuroscience is a growing field of clinical and scientific interest. Up to now, there are, to my knowledge, only two scientific societies in this field. The ICANS – International College of Affective Neuroscience that was born in 2009 in Europe and is addressed to clincians and scientists living and working all over the world and the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society that was recently founded in the United States and had the Annual Meeting in October 2009. The surprising and main characteristic of these Scientific Societies is to be really new, growing, and attractive for young people who are looking for a discipline in psichiatry and in psychology really projected to the future. If you want to read more about this, please click here.
Recent Comments