SfN is really just a lot of words. I downloaded the PDFs of the abstract booklets, textified, tokenized, and counted them. Here is what I found.

The most common word is ‘the’. The most common non-common word is ‘neurons’.

Here are the most enriched and most…deficient? words for each session (so that you know what to go to, and what to skip out on)*

Saturday PM

↑ grid, ↓ parkinson ↑ walking, ↓ injury ↑ biology,↓ stroke ↑ reinstatement,↓ PD ↑ adolescent, ↓ cord ↑ D2, ↓ auditory ↑ older, ↓ recovery ↑ adaptation, ↓ behavioral ↑ movements, ↓ spinal ↑ schizophrenia, ↓ neurogenesis

Sunday AM

↑ Abeta, ↓ cocaine ↑ WM, ↓ olfactory ↑ sensory,↓ cues ↑ withdrawal,↓ conditioning ↑ ASD, ↓ extinction ↑ BDNF, ↓ sleep ↑ GABAA, ↓ cognitive ↑ song, ↓ injury ↑ voluntary, ↓ amygdala ↑ accuracy, ↓ depression

Sunday PM

↑ pain, ↓ AD ↑ sleep, ↓ disease ↑ neuropathic,↓ fear ↑ DRG,↓ context ↑ deprivation, ↓ astrocytes ↑ MS, ↓ cognitive ↑ nicotine, ↓ alzheimer ↑ migration, ↓ amygdala ↑ mechanical, ↓ posterior ↑ PV, ↓ tau

Monday AM

↑ morphine, ↓ tau ↑ song, ↓ KO ↑ seizures,↓ stroke ↑ maternal,↓ olfactory ↑ offspring, ↓ PFC ↑ epilepsy, ↓ feedback ↑ stress, ↓ extinction ↑ antidepressant, ↓ stock ↑ ion, ↓ mutant ↑ TMS, ↓ options

Monday PM

↑ DBS, ↓ EEG ↑ neurogenesis, ↓ pain ↑ circadian,↓ currents ↑ APP,↓ sleep ↑ fear, ↓ inflammatory ↑ extinction, ↓ channels ↑ alcohol, ↓ GABA ↑ ethanol, ↓ attention ↑ neurogenesis, ↓ working ↑ parkinson’s, ↓ older

Tuesday AM

↑ developmental, ↓ ARd ↑ astrocyte, ↓ AD ↑ microglia,↓ cocaine ↑ cord,↓ alzheimer ↑ sleep, ↓ stroke ↑ transporter, ↓ ethanol ↑ respiratory, ↓ disease ↑ 5-HT, ↓ motion ↑ SCI, ↓ direction ↑ proliferation, ↓ olfactory

Tuesday PM

↑ speech, ↓ disease ↑ cord, ↓ AD ↑ autism,↓ ARd ↑ TBI,↓ models ↑ spinal, ↓ animal ↑ axon, ↓ PD ↑ ASD, ↓ disorders ↑ trauma, ↓ sleep ↑ injury, ↓ layer ↑ saccade, ↓ alcohol

Wednesday AM

↑ odor, ↓ movements ↑ olfactory, ↓ ARd ↑ stroke,↓ muscle ↑ emotional,↓ feedback ↑ fear, ↓ neural ↑ ACC, ↓ learning ↑ theta, ↓ ms ↑ extinction, ↓ mechanisms ↑ antidepressant, ↓ cerebellar ↑ cognitive, ↓ cocaine

Wednesday PM

↑ tau, ↓ alcohol ↑ faces, ↓ fear ↑ ischemia,↓ hand ↑ grid,↓ sleep ↑ vision, ↓ ethanol ↑ sensory, ↓ nicotine ↑ visual, ↓ conditioning ↑ walking, ↓ nerve ↑ function, ↓ cerebellar ↑ V1, ↓ excitability

Nanosymposiums

↑ LRRK2, ↓ DA ↑ face, ↓ mg/kg ↑ tau,↓ movements ↑ TBI,↓ muscle ↑ dementias, ↓ antagonist ↑ pathogenesis, ↓ animal ↑ glucose, ↓ firing ↑ AD, ↓ hand ↑ oxygen, ↓ agonist ↑ APP, ↓ ca2+

Symposiums and minisympiums

↑ neuroscience, ↓ time ↑ metabolism, ↓ task ↑ health,↓ observed ↑ circuits,↓ levels ↑ regeneration, ↓ inhibition ↑ insight, ↓ mice ↑ drug, ↓ rat ↑ RNA, ↓ associated ↑ ion, ↓ higher ↑ dynamics, ↓ changes

Satellite meetings

↑ neuroscience, ↓ compared ↑ link, ↓ task ↑ focus,↓ receptor ↑ approaches,↓ rat ↑ ALS, ↓ cortex ↑ facilitate, ↓ significant ↑ variety, ↓ increase ↑ tools, ↓ responses ↑ future, ↓ mouse ↑ quality, ↓ animals

*I modified this list a bit. For instance, the most enriched word in the nanosymposium is ‘nanosymposium’. The most enriched words for the symposiums were place names. Those types of words were ignored for the sake of an interesting list.