Thank you also to our sponsors for supporting our event: QIAGEN, Axion, NexStim, and Labnet, as well as HiLIFE, the Faculty of Medicine, and of course the Brain & Mind Doctoral Programme🧠.

We learnt so much & had engaging discussions about career paths after the PhD, & about the challenges & importance of SciComm. Thank you to our wonderful panelists! We also had two fruitful poster sessions w/ many great discussions & networking opportunities. Thank you to all! 🧠

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And that’s a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended the Brain & Mind Symposium! We heard many stimulating talks by international researchers on the topics of brain imaging, neuroplasticity & neurodevelopment. Thank you to all of our fantastic speakers 👏🧠

Science communication panel take home messages: .Be you, but be a bit crazy!.Spy on other scientists who do scicomm. Just start, you can practice with your mom, neighbor, friends. Science communication is everywhere!.Keep the language simple.

And lastly, the take home messages from the panel discussions. Career paths: .It's okay to explore different paths, your true passion might be somewhere unexpected. You can have it all, as long as you find your own way.PhD is valued outside academia too. And learn programming!.

Pauliina Yrjölä talks about parent infant emotional connection and gives a career tip to stay open to unexpected opportunities, sharing her own career experience. #bmsymposium

Jetro Tuulari talks about how different developmental stages; neonatal, postnatal, and even early life of parents affect the brain development. #bmsymposium2024

Sabine Levi talks about synaptogenesis and the role of A2A receptors. #bmsymposium2024

Day 2 highlights! ✨🧠. Pawel Burkhardt opened the second day with a talk about the appearance of first neurons. #bmsymposium2024

Sebastian Jessberger talked about how neurons were generated throughout the life and their biological aging. #bmsymposium2024

Igor Branchi talked about the role of serotonin and psychotherapy in patients with depression expressing different levels of plasticity. #bmsymposium2024

Francisco Rivera with his first part of the talk described us the implication of the oligodendrocytes in the remyelinisation of axones. In the second part of the presentation he explained about the implication of pericyte in demyelinisation desease such as MS. #bmsymposium2024

Rafael Moliner explained how the therapeutic-like effects of psychedelics are devoid of hallucinations. #bmsymposium2024

Poster session 1, winner of the best poster Anna Rappe: "Longitudinal autophagy profiling of the mammalian brain reveals sustained mitophagy throughout healthy aging" Congratulations! 🏅. #bmsymposium2024

Brertrand Thiron talks about using large datasets to improve data analysis and improving the reproducibility of the studies. #bmsymposium2024

Maija Saraste explains the role of activated microglia in multiple sclerosis. #bmsymposium2024

Harri Piitulainen explained what is propriocetion and how it can be explored with brain imaging. #bmsymposium2024

Highlights from day 1! 🤩 #bmsymposium2024. Laura Säisänen gave a thorough walkthrough of transcranial magnetic stimulation and its application in clinical use 🧠

Tomi Rantamäki opening the symposium.#bmsymposium2024

We’ll have 3 inspiring scientific modules about brain imaging, neuroplasticity, and neurodevelopment. 2 interactive panel discussions about the career paths and science communication. Both days have poster sessions, voting for the best poster! 🏆.