One of our favorite guests, Dr. Amelia Eisch, gave a great lecture at Quinnipiac University. If you’re still craving more about adult neurogenesis, listen to our interview with Amelia for free on iTunes.
Episode 15 - Decisions in the Brain with Dr. Nao Uchida
Anthony and Dr. Nao Uchida (Professor of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Harvard University) talk about how we can understand decision-making by looking at animals making decisions while we record from neurons in their brain.
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Want more from previous Brain Matters guest Dr. Amelia Eisch? Here’s a great lecture from The National Academy of Science’s Distinctive Voices program.
Listen to Amelia talk to Brain Matters about her work free on iTunes!
Episode 12 - Snapshot of a Memory with Dr. Bruce Hope
Anthony and Dr. Bruce Hope talk about how researchers can identify and manipulate the activity of neurons that are active during a specific experience. Toward the end of their conversation, Bruce gets into the importance of perseverance and the personality traits of the successful scientists he has worked with.
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Recent Brain Matters guest Erin Schuman gave a talk at TEDxCaltech where she discussed ‘The Remarkable Neuron’. She discusses how a single neuron can generate the 250 million proteins it needs to function and send all these proteins to 10,000 synapses.
You can listen to our interview with Erin on iTunes or our website.
Brain Matters was featured on the main iTunes Podcast Page! Thanks to all our listeners to getting us to #9 on the Science Podcast charts yesterday.
Episode 5 - Constructing Synthetic Ion Channels with Dr. Chris Ahern
This episode features Dr. Chris Ahern. Anthony and Chris talk about exciting new research with ion channels and what it’s really like to tackle some of the most interesting questions in neuroscience.
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We’ve covered the map! Brain Matters has listeners in every state (and 71 countries). We are so glad you joined our neuro-party, Alaska! Spread the word and see if you can’t make your state number one.
Catalyzing Behavioral Change - Marie-H. Monfils, University of Texas at Austin from Kavli Frontiers of Science on Vimeo.
Our very first guest, Dr. Marie Monfils from The University of Texas at Austin talks about erasing or reinterpreting fear memories.
When Brain Matters sat down with Dr. Alyssa Brewer from The University of California, Irvine, we talked about maps of visual information in the brain.
The visual cortex is the area of the brain that is responsible for processing visual information. Much of this brain area is organized into maps where each hemisphere encodes information about half of the visual field. Light seen through the fovea (an area of the retina used for fine visual acuity) occupies a large amount of space in the cortical representation of the visual field.
Find the full review article on PubMed.
Image Credit:
Brian A. Wandell, Serge O. Dumoulin, Alyssa A. Brewer, Visual Field Maps in Human Cortex, Neuron, Volume 56, Issue 2, 25 October 2007, Pages 366-383.