Dear MNN community: I have received a question regarding Abstract format for MNN annual meeting. While there is no fixed format for a scientific abstract, here are some suggestions for a scientific abstract. If you already have submitted an abstract, we will accept it as it is and there is no need to replace it. Also as you are submitting your abstracts through the Oxford Abstracts portal, you can select any category (1-3). That feature should have been inactivated. Please disregard it.

The body of abstracts should not be longer than 250 words. Suggested format:

"These are the basic components of an abstract in any discipline: 1. Motivation/problem statement: What are you studying? Why do we care about the problem? What practical, scientific gap is your research filling? 2. Methods/ approach: What did you actually do to get your results? Examples include the species, age, and sex of experimental subjects and whether sex differences were assessed. Summarize efforts to ensure scientific rigor, including sample sizes and replication, blinding, and which controls were used. There is no requirement to include full experimental protocols, but sufficient information must be given to indicate how the experiments were performed. 3. Results: As a result of completing the above procedure, what did you learn? State a clear description of the outcome measures to support any conclusion you wish to make. If numerical data are presented as mean values, the standard deviations or standard errors should be given; the form used, and the n values should be stated. When statistical significance is shown, name the statistical test. Data may be conveyed by a combination of Methods and Results, i.e. an outline of the technique followed by the data obtained. Specific details about procedure and results are omitted unless they are very important. 4. Conclusion/implications: State the conclusion(s) supported by the results above, without including any metrics (numbers should be restricted to the sentences described above). What are the larger implications of your findings, especially for the problem/gap identified in step 1? Include consequences/impact of the research in the field."

Source Society for Neuroscience

Looking forward to receiving your abstracts.

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