UMass Neuroscience Club

Please join us for the LAST B.R.A.I.N. meeting of the spring semester for ELECTIONS! Please come and run for a position or vote for your next officers!!! The students who are running for positions so far are as follows:

President: Vanessa Villamarin
Vice President: Christopher Kelley
Activities Coordinator: Sharon Geerts
Community Service Coordinator: Ryan Bottary

There is still time to run for a position, please sign up for one at the meeting tomorrow!

Everyone is welcome to the meeting, and as always, free pizza and refreshments!!

Hope to see you all there!

Thank you,

Hey everyone!

I hope you're all having a great last few weeks before the semester comes to an end! Thank you to everyone who helped support the BRAIN bakesale last Friday, we raised over $100 for the Alzheimer's unit!!!! :D

Please join us for The B.R.A.I.N.: General Body Meeting on Monday, April 9 at 7PM in Tobin 521B to hear Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University, Wei-Dong Yao, speak about "Driving Synaptic Plasticity in Prefrontal Circuitry: Role of Dopamine and Drugs."

REMINDERS:
Volunteering: We will be volunteering Tuesday, April 10 at 6PM at the Alzheimer's Unit in Hadley - please meet in the Newman Center at 5:40PM!

Please join us Monday, March 12th at 7PM in Tobin 521B for The B.R.A.I.N.: General Body Meeting: Carrie Mahoney and Emily Manoogian from the Bittman Lab will be speaking about topics in circadian regulation as well as their experience in graduate school!

Volunteering: We will be volunteering Tuesday 3/13/12 at 6PM at the Alzheimer's unit for everyone who has attended the orientation - meet at Newman at 5:40PM!

As always all are welcome -- free pizza and refreshments!

Hope to see everyone there!!

Thank you,
Sarah Servattalab
President of the B.R.A.I.N.

Please join us Monday, March 12th at 7PM in Tobin 521B for The B.R.A.I.N. General Body Meeting: Carrie Mahoney and Emily Manoogian from the Bittman Lab will be speaking about topics in circadian regulation as well as their experience in graduate school!

Volunteering: For everyone who attended the volunteering orientation last week, we will be volunteering every Tuesday at 6PM (yes, that means tomorrow 3/6!!!) at the Alzheimer's unit. We will be meeting at the Newman Center at 5:40PM -- please email Vanessa if you have a car and are able to provide rides for people!

Hey everyone!

Just to clarify, there will be NO meeting next week! Instead, we are scheduling a meeting at the end of the semester in April (4/30) for elections (so start thinking about whether or not you want to run for a position, it's coming up soon!). The next meeting will be on Monday, March 12th at 7PM in Tobin 521B: Carrie Mahoney will be speaking about "Circadian regulation of arousal-promoting cells, including hypocretin cells of the lateral hypothalamus and the noradrenergic cells of the locus coeruleus." We look forward to seeing everyone there!

The B.R.A.I.N. is participating in the Relay For Life! Please reply to this post or email umassneuro@gmail.com if you want to participate! We need to know who is participating soon! See information about the relay for life below:

Please join us on Monday, February 6th at 7PM in Tobin 521B for The B.R.A.I.N. General Body Meeting: All about Alzheimer's! Come join together with club members to make Valentine's Day cards for the Alzheimer's patients and watch "The Alzheimer's Project."

Neuroscience Club Meeting November 14, 2011 -- Notes by Emmett Fitzpatrick
Speaker: Gail Hornstein http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/facultyprofiles/gail_hornstein.html
Who Owns the Mind?
- With Mental Illness, how does the brain go awry?
- Who has the right to say anything with authority about the mind?
Mental Health Professionals, Psychiatrists, etc.
Well, what about patients diagnosed with psychiatric disorders?
- Point: We don’t know much about how the mind works.