Week 5, Day 1
Welcome to Week 5! This week you’ll be hearing from another field-leading researcher and presenting your work on your projects thus far!
There are three tasks to do today:
Fill out this preference form for what days you feel most/least comfortable presenting. If you need a reminder of presentation slots, you can refer to the Week 5 Schedule.
If you haven’t yet, write a thank you to Dr. Nathan Zasler in this document. These have had an incredible reception so far, so here’s another chance to brighten the day of someone at the top of their field!
Continue to prepare for Dr. Margaret Naeser’s Presentation on Tuesday. We are concerned about you being overwhelmed, so feel free to pick and choose from the materials below.
NEW! Listen to this 12-minute radio interview with Larry Carr, PhD. Dr. Carr was one of Dr. Naeser’s two case studies. Larry Carr comes in at minute 3:30.
Dr. Larry Carr is interested in speaking with you, our interns, if you are interested.
NEW! Read the CA blog post about Dr. Naeser’s two case studies.
NEW! Read Dr. Naeser’s bio.
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An easy entry into Dr. Naeser’s work may be to watch the 22-minute interview with Dr. Naeser on one of the CA pages.
We created a folder in Drive that has all the papers that Dr. Naeser sent as optional reading.
Here are some notes from Dr. Naeser about the “hand-outs” in the Drive folder.
Dr. Naeser: “There is no required reading, per se, but they may want to read over the Naeser, Zafonte et al., 2014 paper - up to them.” (see below for link)
“A 2-page Handout I suggest they print out, before the lecture, which explains the technical terms (some Physics) we use, when teaching about the red/near-infrared LED therapies.”
A file that includes Possible Mechanisms of Photobiomodulation.
The Naeser, Zafonte et al., 2014 paper, regarding the use of the transcranial, LED therapy with chronic, TBI.
In the folder is the “abstract, and the slides for the first two, retired, pro-football players (with suspected CTE) who were treated with the transcranial LEDs, in our lab. We also have third case, and are currently writing up the case report series, for these three.”
Malayka and Julian wrote an in-depth blog post about these case-studies.
“Am also attaching some detailed instructions, regarding use of the Vielight Neuro Gamma, in case they are interested. The Vielight Neuro Gamma is what our first, Pro- football player, Larry Carr, PhD, has continued to use at home, in Los Angeles, for the past 2 years. This is the device he will be doing research with, in other retired, pro-football players. He may be using the Vielight Neuro Alpha, with the younger football players in college, I am not sure of his protocol, for the University of Utah, and planned at BYU.”
This week:
Continue to work on your project as time allows.
Reminders for those working in Squarespace
Always make sure that you are not making changes to a live page. Work on a (disabled) duplicate or new page.
Squarespace unfortunately has no version control. If you make changes to a page and then save that change, you cannot get the original version back. This applies to editing from two computers as well; Squarespace also does not support two active editors, so make sure that only one person is editing a page at a time. Squarespace has even had trouble when someone else has the page selected but is not editing, it can be really finicky.