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Welcome to the on-line forum associated with the 2008 senior seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Its a way to keep conversations going between course meetings, and to do so in a way that makes our conversations available to other who may in turn have interesting thoughts to contribute to them.

Thoughts this week about

• No longer alone: the scientists who dared to say animals think
• Consciousness in animals and people with autism 
• Brain monitoring fails to prevent anesthesia awareness 
• Research on anesthesia, consciousness, or both?  Understanding our anesthetic drugs and defining the neural substrate