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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 202323min
What happens in our brains when we're trying to be funny
After a mostly miserable childhood in the small Israeli village of Tel Aviv (his words), Ori Amir moved to the US, where he gained a PhD in cognitive neuroscience and launched a second career as a sta...
3 Mars 202323min
Marvelling at the mystery of consciousness through a scientific lens
In the second episode of this 12-part podcast series, Tales from the Synapse, neuroscientist Anil Seth describes his research into consciousness, which he describes as “insurance against falling into ...
24 Feb 202335min
Brain and behaviour: understanding the neural effects of cannabis
As a pharmacy student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Natasha Mason was struck by the high volume of patients who complained about opiates and antidepressants not working, but at the same time...
16 Feb 202322min
Showing the love as a science leader: the emotional side of empowering and inspiring others
How do you learn leadership skills as a researcher, and how well is science served by its current crop of leaders?These are just two of the questions asked of scientific leaders from a range of sector...
11 Feb 202316min
