The Liver: Prometheus's Myth, 500 Jobs and Regrowth From 25 Percent
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In Greek myth an eagle ate Prometheus's liver every day and it grew back every night. The ancien...
3 Okt 23min
Auto-Brewery Syndrome: Gut Yeast That Makes Sober People Legally Drunk
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Imagine blowing a dangerously high number on a breathalyzer without having had a drink in weeks....
3 Okt 25min
The McGurk Effect: Why Seeing Ga and Hearing Ba Makes You Hear Da
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In 1976 researcher Harry McGurk and his assistant John MacDonald were running an infant study on...
3 Okt 19min
Neuroplasticity: London Cabbies' Brains, Phantom Limbs and Ketamine
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!For decades the medical establishment treated the adult brain as fixed hardware. This episode tr...
3 Okt 26min
The Eye's Blind Spot: Edme Mariotte Shows Louis XIV the Hole in Vision
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Each eye has a hole in its vision, and the brain hides it. This episode explains the physiologic...
3 Okt 20min
Phosphenes: Newton's Bodkin, the Prisoner's Cinema and BrainNet Tetris
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Pressing your palms against closed eyes produces a light show without a single photon entering t...
3 Okt 24min
Déjà Vu Explained: Boirac's 1876 Term, Brain Double Clicks and fMRI
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Déjà vu, French for already seen, strikes roughly two thirds of people at least once. French phi...
3 Okt 24min
Endorphins: Pig Brain Discovery, POMC and the Runner's High Mix-Up
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!In the early 1970s, researchers hunting for a painkiller without morphine's addiction risk asked...
3 Okt 21min
