The goal of the course is to teach you to find, read and evaluate papers on a given neuroscience topic, link them together into a coherent scientific narrative and use this detailed and considered analysis as a foundation to critically assess current conclusions and suggest future avenues for the field, compiled in a format such as found in a comprehensive review article. We will set a defined topic within a field of neuroscience and then students will learn how to find, collect and critically read published papers relevant to the topic. From this effort we will decide upon the most impactful and critically assess the conclusions drawn, comparing and contrasting the methods and results between studies. Each week, students will summarize the main findings of the papers they select and link them in a collective narrative which will first be presented orally and then summarized in written form. Working as a team, students will then coalesce their collective summaries into a review type manuscript format designed to interweave their analysis and extract a consensus on progress in the field and define key unanswered questions. Dependent upon the quality and state of completion of the collective course document, the assembled article may be considered for potential submission to a peer reviewed journal.
- Professor: Brian McCabe
- Professor: Carmen Sandi
- Teacher: Loredana Cumpana
- Teacher: Lukas Vogelsang
