How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice
On this week’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in national lockdowns and other pandemic policies. They also talk about the launch of a global trial of promising treatments. See all of our News coverage of the pandemic here. See all of our Research and Editorials here.
Also this week, Nadine Gogolla, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, talks with Sarah about linking the facial expressions of mice to their emotional states using machine learning.
This week’s ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - April 2, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice
On this week ’s show, Contributing Correspondent Kai Kupferschmidt talks with host Sarah Crespi about modeling coronavirus spread and the role of forecasts in national lockdowns and other pandemic policies. They also talk about the launch of a global trial of promising treatments. See all of our News coverage of the pandemic here. See all of our Research and Editorials here.
Also this week, Nadine Gogolla, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, talks with Sarah about linking the facial expressions of mice to their emotional states using machine learning.
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Source: Science Magazine Podcast - March 31, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
"A Brain for Numbers" with Andreas Nieder (BS 170)
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BS 170 is an interview with Andreas Nieder, author of A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct. We talk about the surprising discovery that a wide variety of animals have a number instinct, which is called the approximate number system. This appears to provide the basis for the more abstract mathematical abilities that are seen in humans. We also explore the relationship between mathematics and language.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 27, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Research Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
"A Brain for Numbers" with Andreas Nieder (BS 170)
Andreas Nieder (click to play, R click to download)
BS 170 is an interview with Andreas Nieder, author of A Brain for Numbers: The Biology of the Number Instinct. We talk about the surprising discovery that a wide variety of animals have a number instinct, which is called the approximate number system. This appears to provide the basis for the more abstract mathematical abilities that are seen in humans. We also explore the relationship between mathematics and language.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 27, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Brain Research Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
Glial Cells with Doug Fields (BS 169)
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BS 169 is an exploration of glial cells with R Douglas Fields, author of The Other Brain: The Scientific and Medical Breakthroughs That Will Heal Our Brains and Revolutionize Our Health. Glial cells outnumber the neurons in our nervous system, but until the last few years they were thought to merely support cells. Dr. Fields takes us through the discovery that they have their own signaling methods and are much more important than we ever imagined.This interview first aired in 2010, but Dr. Fields reviewed the original transcript and mad...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - March 13, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Brain Research Glial Cells Interviews Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
"Cognitive Gadgets" with Cecilia Heyes (BS 168
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BS 168 is an interview with psychologist Cecilia Heyes from Oxford University in the UK. We talk about her fascinating book "Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking." Our focus is on exploring the evidence that several cognitive skills that appear to be unique to humans are learned from other people rather than being inherited genetically as is often assumed. Her proposal that language is a cognitive gadget NOT a cognitive instinct is controversial and has very important implications.Cognitive Gadgets...
Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - February 28, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Brain Evolution Cognitive Science Interviews Language learning Podcast Show Notes Psychology Source Type: podcasts
Stanislas Dehaene on "How We Learn" (BS 167)
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BS 167 is an interview with Stanislas Dehaene about his new book How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now. According to neuroscientist Dehaene neuroscience has revealed that human babies are incredible "learning machines" whose abilities exceed those of the best current artificial intelligence. We explore why this is so and how this information could be used to help learners (and teachers) of all ages.
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Source: the Brain Science Podcast and Blog with Dr. Ginger Campbell - February 14, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Ginger Campbell, MD Tags: Books Brain Plasticity Cognitive Science Development Interviews learning Neuroscience Podcast Show Notes Source Type: podcasts
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 talks 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 episod...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
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 talks 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 ed ited by Podigy. ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - February 13, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
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
