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Bulletin vol. 32 no. 1 | 3 Brain Art: Blind Researchers and the Pathologic Brain 3 By Dr. Zhi-De Deng Co-Editors Welcome to the Next NAN Bulletin 4 By Lana Harder and Shawn M. McClintock Women in Science: The Current State of Affairs 6 By Drs. Heidi Rossetti, Nyaz Didehbani, and Jennifer Peraza Managing Student Loans in Postdoctoral Fellowship and Beyond 12 By Drs. Jonathan Grabyan and Victor Del Bene Financing Graduate School 15 By John Bernstein Language in Neuropsychology Part 1: Linguistic Diversity and Determining Assessment Language 16 By Drs. David Gonzalez, Audrina Mullane, Lawrence Pick, and Adriana Macias Strutt Crossword Puzzle Time: People and Places 20 "Don't Set Out on a Journey with Someone Else's Donkey": Enculturation and the Neuropsychological Assessment of African Immigrants 21 By Drs. Anthony Stringer and Jean Ikanga Zhi-De Deng, Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Director of Computational Neurostimulation Research Program Noninvasive Neuromodulation Unit Experimental Therapeutics & Pathophysiology Branch National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health Title: Blind Researchers and the Pathologic Brain Description: This piece is a parody on the ancient parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant: a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before attempts to conceptualize what an elephant is like by touching it. Each man feels a different part of the elephant's body and describes the elephant based on their different and limited perspectives. One touches the tail and concludes that the elephant is like a rope; one On the COVER hugs the elephant leg and says the elephant is like a tree-trunk; yet another feels the tusk and states the elephant is like a spear. And so are our perspectives of the pathologic brain, conclusions based on the study of a narrow set of abnormal features often lead us to biases and a lack of general objectivity. Medium: A structural brain MRI (actually it was MRI of Dr. Deng's head) was segmented in MATLAB. The surface rendering of the cortex was exported and made into stylized line drawing in Photoshop. Finally, other elements were assembled with Illustrator. In this ISSUE