NIH ’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma
On this week ’s show, senior correspondent Jeffrey Mervis joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant program that aims to encourage diversity at the level of university faculty with the long-range goal of increasing the diversity of NIH grant recipients.
Sarah also talk s with Pierre Gagnepain, a cognitive neuroscientist at INSERM, the French biomedical research agency, about the role of memory suppression in post-traumatic stress disorder. Could people that are better at suppressing memories be more resilient to the aftermath of trauma?
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 12, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Stephen Macknik works on Prosthetic Vision (BS 166)
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This week neuroscientist Stephen Macknik returns on Brain Science 166 to discuss an exciting new approach to prosthetic vision. Unlike traditional approaches electrodes are not required. He explains how this work is based on recent discoveries in vision research along with techniques like optogenetics.Episode 166 is more technical than usual but Dr. Macknik makes his work accessible to all listeners.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - January 24, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Research Cognitive Science Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Vision Source Type: podcasts
Neuroscience and Magic (BS 165)
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BS 165 is an encore presentation of an interview with neuroscientists Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde. We talk about their international bestseller "Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions." Macknik and Martinez-Conde study vision, but several years ago they had the innovative idea of collaborating with magicians to explore how their use of both visual and cognitive illusions reveals secrets about how our brains work.This may sound esoteric, but it has practical consequences...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - January 10, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Brain Research Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
13 Years of Brain Science with Dr. Ginger Campbell (BS 164
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I am releasing this month’s episode of Brain Science a week early so that you can enjoy it during your Holiday travels. It is our 13th Annual Review episode. I share highlights from the episodes released in 2019 (153-163) plus some personal reflections on the recent 4-part series about Consciousness.I also announced that in 2020 Brain Science will come out twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Friday. Although the Brain Science Podcast was produced every other week during its first two years, it has been a monthly show for the last 10+ years. I ho...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - December 20, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Source Type: podcasts
Christof Koch on the Neuroscience of Consciousness (BS 163)
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Christof Koch returns to Brain Science for the 3rd time and in BS 163 he shares his new book The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed. He tells us why he doesn't think the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC) are enough to explain subjective experience and he gives us a brief overview of the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) of Consciousness.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - November 22, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Consciousness Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Philosophy of Mind Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 572: Your EV-D68th nervous breakdown
Amy joins the TWiV team to review evidence that enterovirus D68 is an etiologic agent of childhood paralysis, and her finding that the ability of the virus to infect cells of the nervous system is not a recently acquired property. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Amy Rosenfeld Subscribe (free): iTunes, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode EV-D68 antibodies in humans before 2014 outbreak (Emerg Inf Dis) Enterovirus antibodies in CSF of AFM patients (mBio) Serology implicates enteroviruses in AFM (Nat Med) EV-D68 neurotropism ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - November 3, 2019 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
"Rethinking Consciousness" with Michael Graziano (BS 162)
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How does the brain generate subjective experience? This is what philosophers of mind have called Qualia and neuroscientist Michael Graziano proposes a fascinating answer In his new book Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience. In BS 162 explains how his Attention Schema Theory compliments several current theories of Consciousness by answering this critical question.His theory had two critical components: one is that whatever circuitry the brain uses to attribute consciousness to others, is also u...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - October 25, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Consciousness Interviews Neuroscience Philosophy of Mind Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
We don ’t know where consciousness comes from. And we don’t know whether animals have it, or whether we can detect it in patients in comas. Do neuroscientists even know where to look? A new competition aims to narrow down the bewildering number of theories of consciousness and get closer to finding its biological signs by pitting different theories against each other in experimental settings. Freelance journalist Sara Reardon talks with host Sarah Crespi about how the competition will work.
In our second segment, we talk about how we think about children. For thousands of years, adults have comp lained about their lac...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
We don’t know where consciousness comes from. And we don’t know whether animals have it, or whether we can detect it in patients in comas. Do neuroscientists even know where to look? A new competition aims to narrow down the bewildering number of theories of consciousness and get closer to finding its biological signs by pitting different theories against each other in experimental settings. Freelance journalist Sara Reardon talks with host Sarah Crespi about how the competition will work.
In our second segment, we talk about how we think about children. For thousands of years, adults have complained about their lac...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
We don ’t know where consciousness comes from. And we don’t know whether animals have it, or whether we can detect it in patients in comas. Do neuroscientists even know where to look? A new competition aims to narrow down the bewildering number of theories of consciousness and get closer to finding its biological signs by pitting different theories against each other in experimental settings. Freelance journalist Sara Reardon talks with host Sarah Crespi about how the competition will work. In our second segment, we talk about how we think about children. For thousands of years, adults have compl ained about their lack...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
We don’t know where consciousness comes from. And we don’t know whether animals have it, or whether we can detect it in patients in comas. Do neuroscientists even know where to look? A new competition aims to narrow down the bewildering number of theories of consciousness and get closer to finding its biological signs by pitting different theories against each other in experimental settings. Freelance journalist Sara Reardon talks with host Sarah Crespi about how the competition will work.
In our second segment, we talk about how we think about children. For thousands of years, adults have complained about their lac...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
We don ’t know where consciousness comes from. And we don’t know whether animals have it, or whether we can detect it in patients in comas. Do neuroscientists even know where to look? A new competition aims to narrow down the bewildering number of theories of consciousness and get closer to finding its biological signs by pitting different theories against each other in experimental settings. Freelance journalist Sara Reardon talks with host Sarah Crespi about how the competition will work.
In our second segment, we talk about how we think about children. For thousands of years, adults have comp lained about their lac...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 17, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in the phone’s library for eye disease in kids.
And Sarah talks with Todd Roberts of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, about incepting memories into zebra finches to study how they learn their songs. Using a technique called optogenetics—in which specific neurons can be controlled by pulses of light—the researchers introduced false song memories by turning on neurons in different patterns, with longer or shorter note durations than t...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
Host Sarah Crespi talks with undergraduate student Micheal Munson from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, about a smartphone app that scans photos in the phone ’s library for eye disease in kids.
And Sarah talks with Todd Roberts of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, about incepting memories into zebra finches to study how they learn their songs. Using a technique called optogenetics—in which specific neurons can b e controlled by pulses of light—the researchers introduced false song memories by turning on neurons in different patterns, with longer or shorter note durations than t...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - October 3, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
