How trauma’s effects can pass from generation to generation
Isabelle Mansuy’s neuroepigenetics lab researches the impact of life experiences and environmental factors on mental health, exploring if these impacts can be passed on to descendants.Epigenetic inher...
26 Apr 202317min
How deep brain stimulation is helping people with severe depression
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an experimental treatment strategy which uses an implanted device to help patients with severe depression who have reached a point where no other treatment works.But de...
21 Apr 202324min
Restoring the sense of smell to COVID-19 patients
Thomas Hummel, who researches smell and taste disorders at the Technical University of Dresden in Germany, describes international efforts to help patients who have lost their sense of smell, perhaps ...
14 Apr 202317min
Understanding the difference between the mind and the brain
In 2020 the forced isolation of pandemic-related lockdowns led many of us to attend virtual fitness classes and undertake home baking projects. Chantel Prat wondered why she wasn’t interested in takin...
7 Apr 202324min
The hospital conversation that set a young epilepsy patient on the neuroscience career path
A child neurologist treating Christin Godale’s epilepsy was so impressed with his young patient’s interest in the brain he gave her some of his textbooks to read during an extended stay in hospital.“H...
31 Mar 202326min
How ice hockey helped me to explain how unborn babies’ brains are built
In his 2022 book Zero to Birth, How the Human Brain is Built, developmental neurobiologist William Harris includes ice hockey analogies to describe how the body’s most complicated organ develops in th...
24 Mar 202323min
The brain science collaboration that offers hope to blind people
An applied goal of Pieter Roelfsema’s lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam is to create a visual brain prosthesis aimed at people who have lost their sight.To help achieve th...
17 Mar 202319min
Social sponges: Gendered brain development comes from society, not biology
Gina Rippon was a paid-up member of the “male-female brain brigade” earlier in her career as a cognitive neuroscientist, but changed tack, she says, after discovering there was not a lot of sound rese...
10 Mar 202323min
