In today's episode we are joined by a special guest, Anais Kruger-Ruiz, to discuss the gap in equality in research relating to women's health. Anais discusses the historical origins of this inequality, in terms of viewing women as purely reproductive agents, and how this outlook pervades to our current day. The equality gap in healthcare and research leads to many more women suffering from conditions such as Alzheimer's, autism, and auto-immune disorders which are disproportionately undiagnosed and under-researched. The current healthcare system is one that significantly dismisses women's chronic conditions and pain complaints (especially BAME women) and drives women to seek advice colloquially and utilize natural medicine, which may be beneficial but shouldn't be sought out as a result of a failing healthcare system that does not prioritise sex equality.

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In this episode, we are joined by special guest and neuroscientist, Dr. Dominic Burrows, to discuss brain-wide dynamics and the concept of criticality. How can the dynamic brain be viewed as a system, what properties characterise the system, and can this help us compare the brain to other biological and physical systems that exist in the world? Welcome to the field of systems neuroscience, of which a key question is how the brain maintains stability in the face of change. Criticality is a state that maintains a system near to a phase transition so that it is very responsive to any changes or inputs, but maintains stability between low and high activity states, and prevents any volatility. In this episode, we expore criticality in all sorts of systems, from bodies of water to magnets and sandpiles, and the brain! How can viewing the brain as such a dynamical system change our perception of how it functions? Listen to find out!

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What is colour? In today’s episode Carolina and Clara discuss the philosophy of colour. Whether it is eliminitivist or inherently subjective (as argued for by Descartes and Locke). They tackle Wittgenstein’s question on what the essence of colour is and explore his language games arguments. Join the discussion! Are we simply a vessel for the experience of colour to manifest upon? 

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Join us in this more informal episode where we reminisce about how Neuroverse started, our favourite episodes and noting underlying themes across episodes. Emergence vs reductionism was a prominent topic, as well as comparing different types of intelligence, how information is translated across scales and our appreciation for multidisciplinary approaches. We would like to thank all our wonderful special guests and everyone who listens. We appreciate you all so much and keep sharing the love for science! 

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We are back! In today’s episode Carolina and Clara are joined with Olivia Sirley who completed her bachelor’s at the University of the Arts London and wrote her thesis on “What role do dating apps play in finding intimate relationships within contemporary society”. Covering topics such as: dating app dependancy; the accessibility of dating apps; user behaviour; how it changes the nature of relationships; the mediated self; our obsession with finding the one and dopamine addiction loops! 

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In this episode, Carolina and Clara discuss whether or not memory equals consciousness. Are we, our personal identity and conscious experience, defined by the collection of memories we accumulate throughout life? Did consciousness evolve as part of a memory system, or did memory evolve to facilitate consciousness? We explore these questions and more!

 "Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going." - Tennessee Williams

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What is the computational unit in the brain? At what scale does the brain store, transform, and transfer information? Is it within genes, or neurons, neural circuits, cortical columns, or whole-brain dynamics? In this episode, Carolina and Clara discuss how computations are performed at multiple levels in the brain, and how different computational units contribute to brain function.

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In this weeks episode Carolina and Clara discuss spatial cognition - the focus of their masters project at Professor Matt Nolan’s lab in the University of Edinburgh. Focusing on navigation, memory and grid cells’ firing rate, Carolina and Clara discuss the crucial role the Medial Entorhinal Cortex has in providing spatial perception and episodic memory formation. 

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In this episode we are joined with another young neuroscientist, Subham Ganguly, to discuss methodological approaches to neursocience research from a philosophical perspective. How does the necessity to base research on biological hypotheses influence our findings? Are we limiting our potential for knowledge by categorising the brain into discrete brain regions? What is the value of coming up with theories that can be applied across the brain instead? How can we use biological mechanisms to define cognitive functions or behaviours? Or can we?

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Within each of us exists a gut microbiome- trillions of bacteria, virus, fungi, and other microorganisms living in our gut. Research is increasingly revealing a role for the gut microbiome in health and disease. Changes to the gut microbiome have been linked to several psychiatric, behavioural, and neurodegenerative brain disorders, from depression to autism to dementia. But how can these tiny microorganisms regulate what is happening in our brains? In this episode, Carolina and Clara explore what we know about the elusive yet emerging gut-microbiome-brain axis, and how this knowledge could contribute to developing therapies for brain disorders. 

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