Journal Clubs
The sector's Journal Club takes place in room 139, every Wednesday from 14:30 to 15:15.
Students should choose a paper that represents a significant theoretical or experimental advance in cognitive neuroscience. The paper will be presented in max 20 minutes, using max 10 slides. These should include:
- background of the study;
- the hypotheses or predictions that were tested;
- methods;
- results: several slides can be used to show different pictures;
- the authors' own explanation of the data;
- your criticism, alternative explanations, and suggestions for moving on beyond that study (i.e. by imagining a follow-up experiment, or one that would address potential confounds). Focus on how good is the fit between the data and the proposed explanation. Discuss possible confounds and try to come up with alternative explanations.
Please click HERE to read Mathew Diamond's notes on how to present.
Here is the calendar of meetings (priority was given to students with fewer presentations at previous JCs):
This week Indrajeet Patil will present the article: Fear and panic in humans with bilateral amygdala damage
Feinstein JS, Buzza C, Hurlemann R, Follmer RL, Dahdaleh NS, Coryell WH, Welsh MJ and, Tranel D, Wemmie JA.
Nat Neurosci. 2013 Mar;16(3):270-2.
Decades of research have highlighted the amygdala’s influential role in fear. This study found that inhalation of 35% CO2 evoked not only fear, but also panic attacks, in three rare patients with bilateral amygdala damage. These results indicate that the amygdala is not required for fear and panic, and make an important distinction between fear triggered by external threats from the environment versus fear triggered internally by CO2.