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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