On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience podcast:

We're welcoming Huy-Binh Nguyen, our new ephys expert, to the OYM studio!  He's here to chat about organizational skills, the use of consumer genetic data for profit, and the risks of neuroprofiling criminals.  Also, our paper this week uses optogenetics to provide solid evidence for the role of LTP in memory.

For links to everything we talked about this week, head to www.onyourmind.ca/mind-control

Happy New Year from OYM!  This week we're talking about our science/student resolutions, the impact of modern technology on our brain and about the way we diagnose and study neuro-developmental disorders.

For links to everything we talked about this week, all our other episodes, full shownotes, and more head to www.onyourmind.ca/resolutions 

Coming to you from our respective hometowns, Liam and Kat have alot on their minds to discuss before the holidays.  Instead of a typical article review, we're talking about the role of psychiatry in the recent CIA interrogation scandal, the misunderstandings that can occur when a scientific findings make it to the media, and some amazing stories of the compensatory power of the brain.

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

We welcome our special guest and fellow podcaster, Nipun Chopra!  He brings discussion on the philosophy of science, what we can and should do about scientific misinterpretation, and the value of a good Charlize Theron movie; not to mention, this week’s article on the role of the REST complex in the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease

This week On Your Mind:

In the spirit of the season, we’re talking about what Santa Clause might have to do with mental illness.  We’re also discussing the idea of read-only article sharing, the beauty of infographics, and the role of ERK in myelin maintenance.

For links to everything we talked about, full show notes and more head to OnYourMind.ca/erkquake

This week On Your Mind:

Adel’s back this week to talk about the platinum genome project, the seedy underbelly of peer review and the issues with using inbred rodents for science.  Also, our article this week looks at the relationship between exercise physiology, molecular changes in the brain, and depression. 

Find links to this weeks paper, links to everything we talked about and more at www.onyourmind.ca/kats-resist-depression

On Your Mind this week:

We’re back with a special SfN 2014 feature episode!  This year's this year’s Society for neuroscience conference was amazing. We met and talked to so many interesting and exciting people!

So we're taking this episode to recap the conference, talk about some of our facourite things, and share a few of our conversations with Jack Lee, Dr. Brian Chen, Denise Zannino, Brittany Wright, Michael Stendardi, Alex and Emily Davidson, Ben Cipollini, Alex Tuttle, Nipun Chopra, Arturo Lichauco, Donald Thevalingam, Benjamin Cordy & Jesse Miles.

This week On Your Mind:

We talk about media representations of Schizophrenia, GMOs, science communication and Brain Training with cognitive neuroscientist Claire Champigny.

For links to all the things we talked about, full show notes and more head to www.onyourmind.ca/Clarifying-Brain-Training 

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast:

We're talking about spooky science, gene patents and science idols! Then we break down the relationship between mTOR and the Huntington protein. 

For links to what we talked about, full show notes and more, head to onyourmind.ca/everyones-doing-mtor

We’re excited to be talking with Ian Mahar this week, about Brazilian neuroscience, the nine circles of academic hell, and the consensus on brain training games.  We’ve also got academic writing on our minds and will end this week talking about a paper claiming to have found a biomarker for suicide.