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Could an alien, made of electricity, take over a human brain?
Can a human being survive with extra electricity in their body?
In this Ask a Neuroscientist, Astra Bryant tackles a series of questions from a speculative fiction author looking for advice on an extraterrestrial electrical lifeform.
Read MoreToday, our guest is Michael Shadlen, professor of neuroscience at the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University. We will discuss his take on consciousness, perception, and his research studying sensory decision-making. We will also let him give us a teaser about his upcoming talk at Stanford.
This week on Neurotalk, we chat with Michael Shadlen about consciousness, perception, decision-making, and more!
Dr. Shadlen is a professor of neuroscience at the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University, and is a former postdoc in Bill Newsome's lab here at Stanford.
In this episode of Brains & Bourbon, Viola Caretti explains how a small group of scientists and a dedicated community of affected families have come together in their search for a cure for a deadly form of childhood brain cancer. Viola is a postdoctoral research fellow in Michelle Monje's lab here at Stanford.
In this episode of Brains & Bourbon, Viola Caretti explains how a small group of scientists and a dedicated community of affected families have come together in their search for a cure for a deadly form of childhood brain cancer.
Viola is a postdoctoral research fellow in Michelle Monje's lab here at Stanford.
The carrot of desire and whip of fear are powerful drivers of our actions, but what happens when they are in conflict? How does the brain balance these great motivators in a scenario like the one you propose, where you are offered a million dollars to walk through a terrifying snake enclosure?
Read MoreJoin us for a very exciting edition of NeuroTalk as we examine the future of scholarly publishing. Nick Weiler interviews John Sack, founding director of High Wire Press, the groundbreaking e-publishing platform created in 1996 and now serving nearly 2,000 journals, ranging from Science to eLife. We go in-depth and discuss Sack's ideas about the future of scholarly journals, including the evolution of the "open access" movement, improvements to the peer review process, and the need for interactive online discussions around published science. Sack, a self-proclaimed futurist, muses about ongoing trends in publishing and whether we would even recognize the journals of the future. This is one episode you don't want to miss!
Read MoreDo you have a brain? Do you like to drink? Do you listen to our radio show Brains & Bourbon? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, we want to hear from you! We at Brains & Bourbon are always looking to improve the show, and we'd love to hear what our listeners have to say about it. If you have a few minutes to spare, please fill out our listener survey here: Brains & Bourbon Feedback Survey
In this exciting new episode of Brains & Bourbon, Zoya Farzampour talks to us about the role of non-neuronal brain cells in epilepsy, why electrophysiology is so dang cool, and much more!
Zoya is a 5th year graduate student in John Huguenard's lab here at Stanford.
Follow Dr. Marlieke van Kesteren during a hypothetical day in her postdoc life as a Cognitive Neuroscience researcher in the Department of Psychology at Stanford.
Read MoreThis week we sat down with new MCP Assistant Professor Lucy O'Brien over her favorite chocolate recovery shake to talk about studying stem cells in the fly gut and the great adventure of science.
We recently sat down with new MCP Assistant Professor Lucy O'Brien over her favorite chocolate recovery shake to talk about studying stem cells in the fly gut and the great adventure of science.
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We sat down with Stanford Neuroscience graduate student Kelly Zalocusky over a Tom Collins to discuss the dopamine reward system, risk tolerance in rodents, and nut caching in squirrels, among other topics. Listen to individual segments from this show here: https://soundcloud.com/neuwritewest/sets/brains-bourbon-episode-15-a-tom-collins-with-kelly-zalocusky
A couple weeks ago, we sat down with Stanford Neuroscience graduate student Kelly Zalocusky over a Ginger Tom Collins to discuss the dopamine reward system, risk tolerance in rodents, and nut caching in squirrels, among other topics.
You can also listen to individual segments of this show here.
Here's the breakdown:
Part 1 (26:23) Dopamine System (extended)
“Anyone who has ever gotten out of bed at 6 in the morning knows that you need motivation in order to initiate movement”
Part 2 (26:48) Dopamine and Risk-Seeking Behavior in Rats, Rat fMRI, and the Not My Field game show
“Have you been able to make the risk-seeking rats into humdrum rats?”
Part 3 (20:05) Squirrels
“It turns out that they bury walnuts at the distance you would bury walnuts if you were planting a walnut orchard.”
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