On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

Adel’s back for his second episode in a row, and we’re talking education and science this week -from the changing role of universities, to pervasive neuroscience myths and the over-abundance of post docs without academic positions.  Then, it’s onto this week’s paper discussion about ASD, synaptic pruning, and the impact of mTOR activity on autophagy.

For full shownotes and links to most of the stuff we talked about today head to onyourmind.ca/pruning-and-postdocs

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast

It's a 50th episode OYM reunion! Adel's back with lessons from medschool and talk of understudied patient groups. Liam and Kathryn have been applying for funding, and the stress drove Liam to vacation. 

Then we're chatting about prizes both Nobel and Ignobel and papers whose titles are Blowing in the Wind. 

Finally it's on to our paper examining social memory and amygdala alterations in mice modeling NF1 disease. 

For more information, links to what we talked about, and past episodes head to OnYourMind.ca

sadly, Kathryn F-ed up epidose 50, so we'll be back next week with OYM 51 or real 50 or something. 

We’ve got a special IPN Retreat wrap-up episode this week, complete with poster etiquette, brushes with scientific fame and on-site interviews.

The computer ate the podcast. Again. So this is just a minute of Liam rabling about how frustrated he is about it. Back next week with real episodes, until then check out all our past episode at www.OnYourMind.ca

It’s a two-man show for our one year anniversary.  Liam and Kat are talking about presentation transparency, scientific stigma and the stigma of mental health, and reviewing a paper on antioxidant treatment and schizophrenia-like deficits

We’ve got a short episode this week, but it’s still packed solid with science!  We’re talking about the importance of networking, the pedagogy of science and why scientists are or are not using social media.  Then it’s onto the appeal of the Ice Bucket Challenge and the importance of primary resources.

For links to everything we talked about, full show notes and more go to www.onyourmind.ca/shooting-the-science-shit

This week on the Show Adel has a more favourable reassessment of his interactions with the McGill bureaucracy, Kat is excited to play with a new lab toy and Liam’s cells have turned him into a night owl... WITH A TERRIBLE CURSE. We discuss the possible stigmatizing consequences of maternal effects research and get excited about more 3D brains and branding for famous scientists. 

Last but far from least, this week’s paper may have our worst rated title yet, but it's an interesting look at epigenetics and Alzheimer’s. 

Sadly, computers have eaten this weeks episode of On Your Mind. We have no idea what happened, but we'll try to to let it happen agian.

On your mind this week: we spend some time talking about the lessons Adel learnt in his masters, apparently one was the term “Neuro-Gothic” which I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist. Meanwhile Liam’s meeting with his supervisor didn’t go quite as planned, and Kathryn rock the socks off her committee meeting. 

During his hours alone in the cell culture room Liam has been catching up on other podcasts including The Partially Examined Life, a philosophy podcast with a couple great episodes on philosophy of science. And Kathryn has been reading about Twitter Psychosis. Is it real? The authors have apologized for the hyperbolic title, now if only people would stop writing them. This leads us down a wormhole of a conversation about the place of case studies in science.

Finally our paper this week examines the role of MicroRNA 135 in depression. This strikes close to home for Liam who was an author on a recent similar paper.