Communicating Brain Science

We discuss the long-term neurocognitive impacts of cancer treatment in children survivors, the dizzying post-treatment landscape that families learn to navigate, and the critical roles that educators and healthcare professionals hold in survivors' lives (well after treatment is done) with Lisa Jacobson, PhD, NCSP, ABPP. She is Director of Research in the Department of Neuropsychology at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and co-director of the institute's Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education (CILSE). Follow Jacobson's work and learn more about the Kennedy Krieger Institute at: https://www.kennedykrieger.org and on twitter @ SUCCESSLab3.

Podcast transcript: https://on.dana.org/transcript-cbs-jacobson

Cancer Survivorship and Schooling Resources: https://www.kennedykrieger.org/cancer-survivorship-schooling-resources

CILSE (for educators): https://www.kennedykrieger.org/training/programs/center-for-innovation-and-leadership-in-special-education

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We discuss the intersection of law and brain science to understand how (and if) insights from neuroscience can make the legal system more just and effective with Francis X. Shen, Professor of Law and McKnight Presidential Fellow at University of Minnesota, Executive Director of Education and Outreach at the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience, and Executive Director of the Harvard MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior. Shen elaborates on the issues neurolaw is grappling with and where the limits of the field may lie. Follow Shen's work and learn more about the Center for Law, Brain & Behavior (CLBB) at: https://www.clbb.org.

This is the first part of our Neuroscience & the Law series, a multi-part exploration of the overlap between brain science and the legal system. Stay tuned for our next entry on Juvenile Justice.

Podcast transcript: https://on.dana.org/cbs-transcript-shen

The Shen Neurolaw Lab: http://www.fxshen.com

Recent Cases in Law and Neuroscience curated by the CLBB: https://clbb.medium.com/

Francis Shen, Aging Judges, University of Minnesota Law School Scholarship Repository: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/658

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We discuss public mental health, the economic factors associated with higher risks of depression, and how pervasive depression and anxiety appear to be in US adults during the COVID-19 era with public health specialist Catherine Ettman, director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of the Dean at the Boston University School of Public Health. Ettman's research reveals the degree to which mass traumatic events affect the population's mental health and who likely bears the brunt of the pandemic's mental health toll. Follow Ettman's work and learn more about mental health at the BU School of Public Health website: https://www.bu.edu/sph/.

Podcast transcript: https://on.dana.org/cbs-transcript-ettman Follow Ettman at BU School of Public Health: https://www.bu.edu/sph/

Ettman et al. JAMA article discussed in the episode: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770146

Ettman et al. JECH article on financial stressors and higher depression: https://jech.bmj.com/content/early/2020/12/04/jech-2020-215213

Resources for those in crisis: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/suicide-prevention/index.shtml

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Northwestern neuroscientist Nina Kraus discusses the effect that music has on brain development and education, her path to research, and her lab's extraordinary website, brainvolts.northwestern.edu

Podcast Transcript: https://on.dana.org/communicating-brain-science-transcript-kraus

A discussion on staying physically active through this period of social isolation and self-quarantine with Wendy Suzuki, Ph.D., a professor of neuroscience and psychology at the New York University Center for Neural Science and author of "Healthy Brain, Happy Life." Her work focuses on understanding how aerobic exercise can be used to improve learning, memory and higher cognitive abilities.

Podcast Transcript: https://on.dana.org/cbs-transcript-wendy-suzuki

Nita Farahany, Duke University law and philosophy professor and founding director of Duke Science & Society (scienceandsociety.duke.edu/), discusses what the International Neuroethics Society hopes to accomplish under her watch as its new president, her experience on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcsbi/about.html), and what it means to be a Duke basketball fan.

Podcast Transcript: https://www.dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/nita-farahany-transcript-cerebrum-podcast-2019.pdf

Cognitive neuroscientist Heather Berlin and standup comedian Chuck Nice team to explain the mechanisms in the brain that allows you to think and act spontaneously in your everyday life—or in the spotlight.

Podcast Transcript: https://www.dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Improv-Podcast-Transcript.pdf

Acclaimed neurosurgeon Neal Kassell, former co-chair of the neurosurgery at the University of Virginia and founder and chair of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, discusses a revolutionary early stage, non-invasive therapeutic technology with the potential to treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and more, and how Joe Biden, John Grisham, and the Michael J. Fox Foundation have showed their support.

Podcast Transcript: https://www.dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Neal-Kassell-Podcast-Transcript.pdf

Shannon Odell, who grew up in the sticks of New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn, explains how she juggles writing and starring in Your Brain On [Blank] videos (with millions of accumulated views.) while working towards a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Cornell Weill Medicine. Her web series is produced by Inserve.com and is available at Facebook Watch and shannoncodell.com.

Podcast Transcript: https://www.dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Shannon-Odell-Podcast-Transcript-2019.pdf

Meet our new neuroethics columnist Philip M. Boffey, former New York Times Editorial Page deputy editor and Pulitzer Prize winner, who discusses clear science writing and his plans for the column.

Podcast Transcript: https://www.dana.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Boffey-Podcast-Transcript.pdf