ABSTRACT

No, this is not the wraith of Edward R. Murrow reporting as if from the London Blitz, but this is Jay Goldstein reporting from the floor of the Los Angeles Convention Center after attending five days of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the largest and most important annual neuroscience conference in the world. I try to attend whenever I can, and on this occasion I definitely am reporting from the floor of the Convention Center, where I am lying after being blitzed by 12,000 experiments in five days. This averaged out to about 1,200 experiments every morning and another 1,200 experiments every afternoon. This meeting marks a watershed in my association with the study of neuroscience.