In trying to track spending I’ve recently shifted from Moneywell to Moneydance on the mac on the advice of a great friend, Will Rose, and hit a few problems when trying to import csv files. He put together a great mac application to translate .csv files into .qif files for the mac via automator. You can download the app here. Just drop the .csv file onto the icon.
A basic conceptual overview of fMRI preprocessing, modeling and contrast estimation
The following is a powerpoint describing basic preprocessing steps and, in more detail, modeling and contrast estimation in functional MRI given as a lab presentation. A number of other authors’ images are included – see references throughout.
Useful mac modifications
Stop built in applications automatically saving to iCloud rather than On My Mac (source: MacUpdate)
It’s extremely irritating when the Mac always takes your save dialog directly to iCloud, which you don’t use. This gets around that.
The default save location for TextEdit (and other apps that can store documents on iCloud) is iCloud. It takes a few clicks if you want to expand the save dialog and save a file locally. There is no way to change this in the GUI, but if you run the following command in Terminal, this will set the default save location to On My Mac for all iCloud-compatible apps:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
To change this back to the default, run this command:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool true
Useful mac applications
Good mac applications for researchers
The following are a list of mac applications I’ve found useful in a research setting (e.g., keeping mac running, managing time, editing stimuli for publications, managing references). To track down related software, Macupdate has great application reviews and is reputable.
General:
AppCleaner (free): Easily, completely delete unwanted applications.
Disk Inventory X (free): Make space: Identifies unused documents and files for removal.
Divvy (paid): Hot keys for sorting your windows on screen.
Ink2Go (paid): Create screen recordings.
Little Snitch (paid): See what information applications are sending out of your computer. Takes a while to get used to.
Onyx (free): Clean and speed up your mac.
SuperDuper (shareware): Program for creating exact, bootable duplicates of your hard disk as a backup.
TrueCrypt (free): Encryption software. See discussion of the warning at the top of the page here.
Organization/getting work done
Evernote (free): Great cross-device notes program with a billion applications.
OmniFocus (paid): Great cross-platform (mac, iPhone…) organizer application for getting things done. Free trial.
Vitamin-R (paid): Good time organization software. White noise generator for if you’re working in a coffee shop.
Research-specific (stimulus generation, data presentation etc.)
Audacity (free): Record and edit audio.
GraphicConverter (shareware): Insanely good photoshop alternative that can be used for free indefinitely. Excellent for editing images for journal articles.
Mendeley (free): Great free reference software.
Moving from Australia to the US to work as a research neuropsychologist/neuroscientist
Migrated! See – https://cogneuro.net/other/
Where to find jobs in the US in neuropsychology and neuroscience
Migrated! See – https://cogneuro.net/other/
How to become a neuropsychologist in the US if you have trained in Australia
Migrated! See – https://cogneuro.net/other/
Nice paper documenting this asymmetry in typical adults and in neonates. The general (previously observed) asymmetry is pretty important for interpreting MRI in epilepsy surgical candidates; even typical adults may look “pathologically” asymmetric while pathology in preterm nenonates may be more subtle.
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