I just got back from SFN 2004 and it was excellent. Record attendance, something like over 30,000 attendees and 15,000 presenters. Quite remarkable. Had the opportunity to meet with a lot of prominent individuals and engage in worthwhile exchanges. Topics which caught my attention: adult neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus and its modulation via environment and pharmacology, gene expression profiling of discrete neuronal populations using laser confocal microscopy and gene chips, web-accessible brain atlases and databases. An excellent conference. I will write more about it soon.



(Btw, I presented my soon-to-be-published work over resting state expression of cfos (which is a marker for neuronal activity) in the nonhuman primate thalamus, which is invariably observed in high levels in midline and intralaminar nuclei, moderately in the mediodorsal nucleus, and nil in primary sensory nuclei LGN, MGN, and VPL.)