Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space
About one-third of people with epilepsy are treatment resistant. Up until now, epilepsy treatments have focused on taming seizures rather than the source of the disease and for good reason —so many roads lead to epilepsy: traumatic brain injury, extreme fever and infection, and genetic disorders, to name a few. Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about researchers that are turning back the pages on epilepsy, trying to get to the beginning of the story w here new treatments might work.
And Sarah also talks with Torsten Neurbert at the Technical University of Denmark’s National Space Instit...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - December 12, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space
About one-third of people with epilepsy are treatment resistant. Up until now, epilepsy treatments have focused on taming seizures rather than the source of the disease and for good reason —so many roads lead to epilepsy: traumatic brain injury, extreme fever and infection, and genetic disorders, to name a few. Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel talks with host Sarah Crespi about researchers that are turning back the pages on epilepsy, trying to get to the beginning of the story w here new treatments might work. And Sarah also talks with Torsten Neurbert at the Technical University of Denmark’s National Space Institu...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - December 12, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 521: Spitting in the Allee
Team TWiV cover the discovery of another giant virus from 30,000 year old Siberian permafrost, and how viral aggregation accelerates the production of new infectious viruses and increases fitness, demonstrating an Allee effect. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode PhD and postdoctoral programs at Dept of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 30,000 year old Mollivirus sibericum (PNAS) Aggregating viruses promotes early replication (Curr Bio...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - November 25, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 504: Flying foxes and barking pigs
The TWiVerinos discuss Nipah virus and the recent outbreak in India, and the first cast of polio in Papua New Guinea in 18 years. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference TWiV 501: Outbreak Nipah virus infection (JCM) Anatomy of an outbreak (The Hindu) Do we need to worry about Nipah virus? (Tufts Now) Nipah virus infection of bats (EID) Papua New Guinea no longer polio-free (virology blog) WHO polio endgame (polioeradication) Letters read on TWiV 504 Weekly Science Picks Alan - G...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - July 29, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 463: We haven't meth but these names ring Nobel
The TWiViridae review the 2017 Nobel Prizes for cryoEM and circadian rhythms, and discuss modulation of plant virus replication by RNA methylation. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Truth Wins by Jonathan Yewdell (epub or mobi) Gabriel Victora awarded MacArthur Prize Forty Years of mRNA Splicing (CSH) 2017 Chemistry Nobel: Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson 2017 Physiology or Medicine Nobel: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, Michael W. Young 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (pdf) 2017 Nobel Prize in...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - October 15, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 461: Gotta trace them all!
The TWiVers discuss the declining readability of scientific texts, and review the use of self-inactivating rabies virus for tracing neural circuits. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Brianne Barker Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Meet the Microbiologist TWiV 1: West Nile Virus Decreasing readability of scientific texts (eLife) Measure text readability Tracing neural circuits with self-inactivating rabies virus (Cell) Cre driver network (NIH) Monosynaptic tracing with rabies virus (Neuron) Letters read on TWiV 461 This episode is brought to you by th...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - September 30, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
Counting Neurons with Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel (BS 133)
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Dr. Suzana Herculano-Houzel and her colleagues developed a pioneering technique that has made it possible to accurately count the number of neurons in brains of all sizes. This has led to some big surprises including the fact that the human brain contains an average of 86 billion neurons rather than 100 billion as had long been assumed. She describes this work in her wonderful book The Human Advantage: How Our Brains Became Remarkable and I really enjoyed interviewing her for Brain Science 133.
While some neu...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - April 26, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Brain Anatomy Brain Research Glial Cells Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Interviews Source Type: podcasts
The Four Shades of Dark
People since time immemorial have been fascinated by the problem of evil; some consider it a philosophical (why does evil exist?) and religious problem (Why does god allow evil if he is omnipotent and benevolent?) while some others have taken a more scientific approach.
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Prominent psychologists from Roy Baumeister to Simon Baron-Cohen have written about evil and I first got drawn into psychology when I read ‘The anatomy of human destructiveness‘ by Erich Fromm in 1992, while still in college. As a matter of fact Fromm first came up with the term ‘malignant narcissism’ wh...
Source: The Mouse Trap - February 22, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: personality Erich Fromm evil Machiavellianism narcissism psychopathy sadism Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees
This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish ’s anatomy, and a cheap paper centrifuge based on a toy, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Christian Koerner about why just planting any old tree isn’t the answer to our carbon problem.
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Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 12, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees
This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish’s anatomy, and a cheap paper centrifuge based on a toy, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Christian Koerner about why just planting any old tree isn’t the answer to our carbon problem.
Listen to previous podcasts.
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Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 12, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees
This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish ’s anatomy, and a cheap paper centrifuge based on a toy, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Christian Koerner about why just planting any old tree isn’t the answer to our carbon problem.
Listen to previous podcasts.
[Image: Bureau of Land Manag ement Oregon and Washington; Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 12, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: A blood test for concussions, how the hagfish escapes from sharks, and optimizing carbon storage in trees
This week, we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, new insights into the bizarre hagfish ’s anatomy, and a cheap paper centrifuge based on a toy, with Online News Editor David Grimm. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Christian Koerner about why just planting any old tree isn’t the answer to our carbon problem. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: Bureau of Land Managem ent Oregon and Washington; Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 12, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
"How Do you Feel?" with Dr. Bud Craig
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Dr. AD (Bud) Craig has spent his career as a functional neuroanatomist tracing the path of the interoceptive (homeostatic) signals from both the skin and deep tissues to the insular cortex. After over 30 years in the field he has published a comprehensive description of his work called How Do You Feel?: An Interoceptive Moment with Your Neurobiological Self. In BSP 121 we talk about some of his key discoveries. Although the book is must-read for students and scientists, the goal of our discussion was to make this material accessible to listeners of ...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - July 28, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Limbic System Body maps Brain Anatomy Brain Research Consciousness Embodiment Emotion Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
