Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal Club
The Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal Club provides a comfortable social environment for students to compare and contrast ideas. Members of Dalhousie’s Undergraduate Neuroscience Society created this group to enrich the university experience through scientific discussion for the sake of gaining knowledge and perspective complementing material learned in class. Although this journal club caters to undergraduates, all faculty, researchers and students are welcome and encouraged to join. The club explores a broad range of neuroscience topics, from molecular and cellular interactions, to behaviour and cognition—often with an emphasis on neurological disorders. In addition to analyzing articles, club members refine theoretical concepts and discuss practical application

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Access papers/topics from past meetings:

2019/20

• When you smile, you become happy: evidence from resting state task based fMRI
• Sleep and the Brain
• Living successfully with aphasia: A qualitative meta-analysis of the perspectives of individuals with aphasia, family members, and speech-language pathologists
• Spasmodic Dysphonia in Multiple Sclerosis Treatment With Botulin Toxin A: A Pilot Study

2018

• Sleep deprivation selectively up-regulates an amygdala-hypothalamic circuit involved in food reward
• Circadian modulation of neuroplasticity by melatonin: a target in the treatment of depression
• A genetic reduction in the serotonin transporter differentially influences MDMA and heroin induced behaviours
• The impact of bilingualism on brain reserve and metabolic connectivity in Alzheimer's dementia
• Medial preoptic circuit induces hunting-like actions to target objects and prey
• Stress-induced unfolded protein response contributes to Zika virus-associated microcephaly.

2017

• AVATAR therapy for auditory verbal hallucinations in people with psychosis: a single-blind, randomised controlled trial
• Reactivations of emotional memory in the hippocampus–amygdala system during sleep
  
• Raising the alarm: Individual differences in the perceptual awareness of masked facial expressions
• Stress and GABAergic synaptic plasticity
• Fast Regulation of Axonal Growth Cone Motility by Electrical Activity

2016

• Engineering a memory with LTD and LTP
• From neuroticism to anxiety: Examining unique contributions of three transdiagnostic vulnerability factors
• A randomized, controlled pilot study of MDMA (±3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine)-assisted psychotherapy for treatment of resistant, chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• Neuropsychological Performance in Long-term Cannabis Users

2015 

• Neural correlates of moral and non-moral emotion in female psychopathy
• Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels
• A Competitive Advantage by Neonatally Engrafted Human Glial Progenitors Yields Mice Whose Brains Are Chimeric for Human Glia
• Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall
• Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding
• A Large-Scale Model of the Functioning Brain

2014

• "Context-Dependent Encoding in the Human Auditory Brainstem Relates to Hearing Speech in Noise: Implications for Developmental Dyslexia
• Frontiers in Neuroscience, "Treatment of phantom limb pain (PLP) based on augmented reality and gaming controlled by myoelectric pattern recognition: a case study of a chronic PLP patient"
• Frontiers in Neurology, "Long-term cognitive impairments and pathologica alterations in a mouse model of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury"
• "Oxytocin modulates social distance between males and females"
• Frontiers in Psychiatry, "The clinical relevance of neurocognitive measures in addiction"
• Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, "Illness perception, time perception and phenomenology – an extended response to Borrett"

2013

• “Dysfunctions within limbic-motor networks in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis”
• “Toward a unified model of face and object recognition in the human visual system”
• “Real-time prediction of hand trajectory by ensembles of cortical neurons in primates”
• “Mice Infected with Low-Virulence Strains of Toxoplasma gondii Lose Their Innate Aversion to Cat Urine, Even after Extensive Parasite Clearance”