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If you are asking me to do anything (answer a question, sign off on course units, review a manuscript, etc.), this is a task and should therefore be handled within Teams Planner. Generally, try to avoid sending me emails (use Teams Chat instead), unless I’m b...

Keeping an updated electronic lab notebook (ELN) is required to get a “Satisfactory” grade for your research units. The main goal in keeping and maintaining a lab notebook is for you to be able to look at your look at your entries / data several years from no...

Each lab member is expected to write and submit (and hopefully publish) 1 review paper. For PsyD students, this will fulfill the “doctoral project” requirements. For PhD students, the review should provide the background and theoretical framework for your empi...

Excel is great for organizing your data and making simple calculations (e.g., means / standard deviations), but it is pretty worthless for statistics, and even more so for graphs. You can apparently get some plugins that will allow Excel to do simple stats (al...

Following these guidelines should get you started on most basic analyses: Before the experiment: Use G*Power to determine required sample size. Power analysis parameters are generally set at the standards of .05 for the significance criterion (the probab...

Authorship on posters, chapters, and peer-reviewed journal article is determined by several factors. I will generally be the senior / corresponding author on all research products coming out of this lab. This is usually the last author, but occasionally may be...

We have presented at the Society for Neuroscience conference every year since 1995. The meeting currently alternates between San Diego, Washington D.C., and Chicago. All lab members should join SfN and strive to attend each year’s meeting, whether you are pres...

More coming later…. Know and cite your lab’s previous research and how / why it led to “today’s story” Understand and be super familiar with your data - know what the main effects / interactions / correlations mean… Understand and be super familiar with b...

Students should go to any and all neuroscience-related talks on campus. Going to neuroscience talks is part of your educational process and skipping these will definitely create a hole in your knowledge about cutting-edge science. Additionally, meeting these p...

You may be asked to help review a paper that been submitted for publication in a “peer-reviewed journal”. Note that your review serves two functions: 1) To provide the editors with information they need to make a decision on the manuscript, and 2) To guide aut...

Dissertations and doctoral projects Peer-reviewed publications: Cutting, T & Hartman RE. Underlying mechanisms of (R,S)-ketamine’s treatment efficacy for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression: a review, Medicine Advances (in press) Creel WT & Hart...

Loma Linda University follows all the rules and guidelines of the Institutional Animal Care and Use (IACUC). IACUC requires that anyone performing animal research involving the use of vertebrates (e.g., rats / mice / fish) must demonstrate an understanding of ...

For finding papers, my go-to tools are Pubmed and Google Scholar. The University Library also has other databases as well (PsycLit, PsychInfo, etc). I have a myNCBI account that I use to receive weekly emails of saved keyword searches. I will also look at "cit...

An electronic lab notebook (ELN) like eLabFTW allows lab notebook entries to be automated and customized… for example: Templates: Use predefined templates for common activities (e.g., “Maintain Fly Colony,” “TBI Experiment”) to ensure consistency. Attachme...

Ten Simple Rules for a Computational Biologist’s Laboratory Notebook.PDF Benefits of publishing a review.pdf A quick guide for using OneNote as an ELN.pdf Ten Simple Rules for Experiments’ Provenance.PDF Ten Simple Rules for Digital Data Storage.PDF  

PsyD Final Manuscript outlines 2021.docx

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