Viswanathan has also written an article about this topic for the first issue of the Tübinger Neuromag.
Florian Sandhäger Dr. Wolfgang Kelsch( Central Institute for Mental Health, Mainz) visted NeNa conference for a talk on the functional characteristics of psychiatric disorders and their neurobiological basis.
devices without any cost expenditures. Viswanathan explained how she uses Mendeley, Dropbox and Read- Cube to get the best organization, synchronization and aggregation of material. Personally, I was impressed at the methodology she employed to achieve such aims. I was totally unaware of some of the features of these programs, such as Mendeley’ s capability to watch folders for new uploads. In the case of continuously adding papers to your Dropbox, Mendeley can then automatically update your sources from the Dropbox directory. ReadCube was also a reader she presented, which has sufficient tools to assist with the exploration of supplementary material and in-text citations. Perhaps you may want to try some of these techniques yourself?
Overall, whether it was the continuous stream of coffee or the brilliant science, I was in relatively high spirits for the entire conference duration. It’ s true that not everything went smoothly, such as the cancellation of our plenary speaker, Professor Robert Desimone( MIT), but we were able to bring in a great scientist and psychiatrist from Heidelberg University, Dr. Wolfgang Kelsh, who was able to answer all of our questions in a discussion that was quite broad and very much entertaining. He really had an answer for it all – whether we were discussing the modern-day use of electroshock therapy, the prescription of medication to alter the mental state, or whether smoking marijuana may lead to schizophrenia. I laud his scope of knowledge, and thanks to him our discussion was all the more fruitful.
Naturally, we will continue to work on making NeNa a fun and entertaining learning experience. The organizing team is already taking suggestions for next year’ s keynote speaker, and we are considering other dynamics to increase the diversity of the activities offered to participants. There has already been talk of having live music and more group activities throughout the day. I am certainly, looking forward to it and calling on any interested persons to register for next year( we do support travel for those outside of Tübingen)!
Renée Hartig graduated from the Neural and Behavioral Sciences master’ s program in 2015. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Functional and Comparative Neuroscience laboratory with Dr. Henry Evrard.
Florian Sandhäger
* Also printed in Max Planck PhDnet’ s Offspring Magazine
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