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
Seth Grant's latest Research (BS 137)
Seth Grant has made a career by combining his skills in molecular biology, medicine and neuroscience. Brain Science listeners may remember him best for his explorations of the evolution of the synapse (BSP 51) and in BSP 101 he told us about how small genetic changes related to synapse proteins can influence learning, but this month he shares a new paper, which describes what he calls the "genetic lifespan calendar.” The key idea is that the genes in both the mouse and human brain appear to follow a predictable schedule. Grant’s team also found that they could predict the age of a brain by looking at its transcrip...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - September 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Evolution Brain Plasticity Brain Research Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Synapses Source Type: podcasts
Why Reading Science Matters (BS 136)
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The latest episode of Brain Science (BS 136) is discussion of Language at the Speed of Sight: How We Read, Why So Many Can’t, and What Can Be Done About It by Mark Seidenberg . Unfortunately I was unable to reach the author, so this is a return the show's early days when it was not dominated by interviews. This book contains information that is important to anyone who cares about how children learn to read. One key theme is that there is a large gap between current reading science and educational practice.In this podcast we explore the relati...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - August 28, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Cognitive Science Computation Development Language learning Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Reading and the Brain Source Type: podcasts
Marwan Sabbagh, MD, FAAN - Frontiers in Alzheimer ’s Disease: How Might Emerging Therapies Overcome the Shortcomings of Available Symptomatic Therapies?
Frontiers in Alzheimer’s Disease: How Might Emerging Therapies Overcome the Shortcomings of Available Symptomatic Therapies? (Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International - August 25, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Thomas Crawford, MD - Practicing on the Cutting Edge: Harnessing Advances in Spinal Muscular Atrophy to Improve Care Across the Disease Spectrum
Practicing on the Cutting Edge: Harnessing Advances in Spinal Muscular Atrophy to Improve Care Across the Disease Spectrum (Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International - August 23, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts
TWiV 455: Pork and genes
Erin joins the TWiVirions to discuss a computer exploit encoded in DNA, creation of pigs free of endogenous retroviruses, and mutations in the gene encoding an innate sensor of RNA in children with severe viral respiratory disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Guest: Erin Garcia Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode DNA-based computer exploit (pdf) Inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus in pigs (Science) Severe viral respiratory infections in children with IFIH1 mutations (PNAS) IRF7 deficiency and severe respiratory infection (TWiV 336) Image credit Letters...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - August 20, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts
J. Sloan Manning, MD - Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Exploring a Patient ’s Journey From Diagnosis to Treatment
Recognition and Treatment of Bipolar Depression: Exploring a Patient’s Journey From Diagnosis to Treatment (Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International - August 18, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts
Lisa Barrett on How Emotions are Made (BS 135)
Lisa Felman Barrett (click to play interview)
In How Emotions are Made, neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges a key long-standing assumption about emotions. She argues persuasively that the evidence does not support the idea that emotions are universal and hardwired. She calls this the classical theory because versions of this idea have been around at least since the ancient Greeks, but the idea was also one that Darwin embraced. It is also embedded in several past episodes of this podcast, including the popular interviews with Jaak Panksepp.In the Brain Science 135 I spoke with D...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - July 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Limbic System Books Brain Evolution Emotion Interviews learning Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
The strange case of Dr Oliver Sacks (RCPsych Congress 2017)
Why do people choose psychiatry as a career? Why do others avoid it? Professor Anthony David explores these questions using writer and neurologist Oliver Sacks ’ life story. In this podcast, Dr Raj Persaud talks to Professor David following his keynote lecture at the Royal College of Psychiatrists’ International Congress 2017 on The strange case of Dr Oliver Sacks. (Source: Raj Persaud talks to...)
Source: Raj Persaud talks to... - July 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Royal College of Psychiatrists Tags: Science & Medicine Source Type: podcasts
"Grey Areas" -- The Discovery Files
A new study by neuroscientists at Duke and Stanford University sheds light on how the brain coordinates complex decisions involving altruism and empathy. The answer lies in the way multiple areas of the brain collaborate to produce the decision, rather than just one area or another making the call. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - July 6, 2017 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
Remembering Jaak Panksepp (BS 134)
Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp spent much of his career toiling in relative obscurity, but when he died in April 2017 the Washington Post credited him with "revealing the emotional lives of animals." His book Affective Neuroscience essentially created a new field and he was a very popular guest on the Brain Science Podcast .This month I want to honor Dr. Panksepp by re-airing the first interview I recorded with him back in 2010.
While newer theories about emotion disagree with Dr. Panksepp's conclusion that all mammals, including humans, share basic subcortical circuits that cause emotions, his appreciation for the affect...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - July 5, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Emotion Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Michael S. Okun, MD - Moving Toward Optimal Management of Advanced Parkinson ’s Disease: Patient Journeys and Expert Points of View
Moving Toward Optimal Management of Advanced Parkinson’s Disease: Patient Journeys and Expert Points of View (Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International)
Source: Peerview CME/CE Audio Podcast - Neurology International - May 22, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: PVI, PeerView Institute for Medical Education Tags: Science, Medicine Source Type: podcasts
