On neuro-AI on the boat - part 1 of 2 - with Ken Harris, Andreas Tolias, Mikkel Lepperød, Paul Middlebrooks - #19
In September Paul Middlebrooks, the producer of the podcast BrainInspired, and I were both on a neuro-AI workshop on a coast liner cruising the Norwegian fjords. We decided to make two joint podcasts ...
8 Okt 20241h 19min
On electric brain signals - solo episode - #18
Most of what we have learned about the functioning of the living brain has come from extracellular electrical recordings, like the measurement of spikes, LFP, ECoG and EEG signals. And most analysis o...
15 Sep 20241h 48min
On dendritic function - with Yiota Poirazi - #17
The most prominent visual characteristic of neurons is their dendrites. Even more than 100 years after their first observation by Cajal, their function is not fully understood. Biophysical modeling ba...
17 Aug 20241h 27min
On consciousness - with Christof Koch - #16
The greatest mystery of all is why a group of atoms, like the ones constituting me, can feel anything. The mind-brain problem has puzzled philosophers for millennia. Thanks to pioneers like Christof ...
3 Aug 20242h 4min
On the simulation tool NEURON - with Michael Hines - #15
Computational neuroscientists use many software tools, and NEURON has become the leading tool for biophysical modeling of neurons and neural network. Today's guest has been the leading developer of NE...
20 Jul 20241h 26min
On the molecular memory code - with Sam Gershman - #14
The idea that memories are stored in molecules was popular in the middle of the 20th century. However, since the discovery of long-term potentiation (LTP) in the 1970s, the dominant view has been that...
22 Jun 20241h 20min
On quantum biology - with Johnjoe McFadden - #13
Is quantum physics important in determining how living systems, including brains, work? Today's guest is a professor of molecular genetics at the University of Surrey in England and explores this que...
8 Jun 20241h 17min
On modeling of signaling pathways inside the neuron - with Avrama Blackwell - #12
Most computational neuroscientists investigate electric dynamics in neurons or neural networks, but there is also computations going on inside neurons. Here the key dynamical variables are concentrati...
25 Mai 20241h 31min
