{"id":910,"date":"2023-11-21T11:08:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/?p=910"},"modified":"2023-11-21T11:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T16:08:43","slug":"our-first-visual-abstract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/2023\/11\/21\/our-first-visual-abstract\/","title":{"rendered":"Our First Visual Abstract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Articles in scientific journals include a brief summary at the beginning of paper, known as an abstract. Abstracts provide background information, identify aims and hypothesis, give an overview of the project&#8217;s methods and results, and summarize findings.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What is a visual abstract?<\/h2>\n<p>A visual abstract aims to summarize a paper in a visual manner, depicting, rather than describing an overview of the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Our team collaborated to develop a visual abstract for our most recent publication, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s12940-023-01018-2\">Cognitive\u00a0decrements in 1991 Gulf War veterans: associations with Gulf War illness and neurotoxicant exposures in the Boston Biorepository, Recruitment, and Integrative Network (BBRAIN) cohorts<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1876\" height=\"1168\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture.png 1876w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture-636x396.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture-1024x638.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture-768x478.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/VisualAbstract_picture-1536x956.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1876px) 100vw, 1876px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the abstract published in the <em>Environmental Health<\/em> journal:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/Cog-Paper-SS.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/Cog-Paper-SS-e1700513635833.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"693\" height=\"784\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-914 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/Cog-Paper-SS-e1700513635833.png 693w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/files\/2023\/11\/Cog-Paper-SS-e1700513635833-562x636.png 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We hope this visual depiction provides a palatable, easy to understand presentation of the outcomes of our research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our team:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">bbrain@bu.edu or 617-358-2230.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles in scientific journals include a brief summary at the beginning of paper, known as an abstract. Abstracts provide background information, identify aims and hypothesis, give an overview of the project&#8217;s methods and results, and summarize findings. What is a visual abstract? A visual abstract aims to summarize a paper in a visual manner, depicting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,6],"tags":[87,84,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bbrain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}