This Society for Neuroscience podcast takes the listener through the process of publishing a paper, starting from the initial conceptions of the experiment through to the final publication.  Viewpoints from both the authors of the paper and journal editors are explored.  In episode 2, starting at ~10:00, Jim Knierim, a former Reviewing Editor of The Journal of Neuroscience, discusses the sometimes tricky balance between trying to “sell” your work in order to make it appealing to a broad audience while not also over-selling the work by overinterpreting the results or making promises in the introduction that are ultimately not delivered in the results.  He also emphasizes the importance of careful preparation of a manuscript before submission.

Listen to the Peril of Publishing Podcast episode on Neuroonline

Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden joins four other speakers on the TED Radio Hour to discuss the senses.  

Language, music, art, religious worship, self-awareness, planning, problem-solving, making tools. No other animal has all of these aptitudes. All rely on a single organ: the brain. But the brain is the most poorly understood organ of the human body. Seeking to change that, a $20 million partnership between the Kavli Foundation and The Johns Hopkins University was formed on Oct. 1, 2015. The Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute (Kavli NDI), led by neuroscientist Richard Huganir and computational scientist Michael Miller, is an interdisciplinary group of Johns Hopkins scientists who will harness the problem-solving aptitudes of their brains to devise tools that unlock the mysteries of neuroscience. 

Daniel O’Connor was among 102 scientists and engineers named on Jan. 9 by President Obama as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/09/president-obama-honors-federally-funded-early-career-scientists

A clump of just a few thousand brain cells, no bigger than a mustard seed, controls the daily ebb and flow of most bodily processes in mammals -- sleep/wake cycles, most notably. Now, Johns Hopkins scientists report direct evidence in mice for how those cell clusters control sleep and relay light cues about night and day throughout the body.

Publications from Primary Faculty Members - January 2017:

Cave C, Park S, Rodriguez M, Nakamura M, Hoke A, Pletnikov M, Sockanathan S.  GDE2 is essential for neuronal survival in the postnatal mammalian spinal cord. Mol Neurodegener. 2017 Jan 19;12(1):8. doi: 10.1186/s13024-017-0148-1. 

Lagerlöf O, Hart GW, Huganir RL. O-GlcNAc transferase regulates excitatory synapse maturity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Jan 31. pii: 201621367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1621367114. [Epub ahead of print]

Savelli F, Luck JD, Knierim JJ. Framing of grid cells within and beyond navigation boundaries. Elife. 2017 Jan 13;6. pii: e21354. doi: 10.7554/eLife.21354. [Epub ahead of print]