Category: society for neuroscience

While many of us have been busy with the annual science writers' meeting, ScienceWriters 2009, in Austin, others have been prospecting in the rich vein known as the Society for Neuroscience meeting, with more research presentations than there are neurons in the human brain. Or at least it has seemed that way when I've covered it.

Here's a quick rundown on some of the news coming out of the meeting, which ends today (Oct. 20) in Chicago:

Science News isn't afraid to take a lighthearted approach to a serious science story. Researchers, writes Laura Sanders, have found the Halle Berry neuron!...