On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

Due to an interruption in our regularly scheduled recording time, we’ve got an abridged version of On Your Mind this week. We’re talking about the role of monoamine signaling during specific developmental sensitive periods, on the development of anxiety and aggression. 

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast:

The gang has a sensational discussion on synesthesia and an experiment suggesting we might identify letters before we might even be aware of them. Then a press release of unpublised research gets the group riled up on its implications for autism diagnoses.

The article this week is about MS and how human neural stem cell grafts can mitigate its development, or reverse its progression. 

For links and full show notes head to www.onyourmind.ca/ms-america

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

Kat’s back from her networking adventure to talk about lucid dreaming, eating bugs and mass extinction with the rest of the team.  This week, we’re talking about a paper that investigates the role of potassium channels and astrocytes in the development of Huntington’s Disease. 

For full show notes, links and more check out www.onyourmind.ca/special-k-channels

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscienc Podcast:

Its yet another guested podcast. Ian has returned, since Kat's away in Victoria B.C. for a conference! This week the gang talks about science in the media and how much of good reporting depends on the scientist themselves. Also, we discuss about what its like to be a broke student and whether that feeling might change when we actually grow and get jobs. Finally, the article for this week is about the analgesic effects in mice of male experimenters just standing in the room! This paper is making a lot of noise in the media and is also making scientists working with animal models a little nervous!

For links to everything we've talked about to day and full show notes head to www.onyourmind.ca/mice-get-afraid

This week in the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

We get into a super fun discussion when Kat brings up an article on the impact of a crying baby and how that helps its fitness. Then things get a little heated when the subject of the scientific rigor of evolutionary psych as field comes up. Fortunately, Liam was able to calm our nerves when he let us know they discovered a 13th cranial nerve. Guess its time to throw out your mnemonics, anatomy majors! In a pretty big change of pace Adel talks about new moons forming and breaking up in Saturn's rings, with the newest one being discovered called Peggy!

The article for this episode touches on the effects of THC use in adolescent rats that may or may not lead to different drug seeking behaviour in their offspring, even long after the parents have stopped using it.

For Links to what we talked about and full show notes check out www.onyourmind.ca/offspring-on-your-left

It’s all about innovation at OYM this week, from the interactive mouse connectome to patient-derived organ transplants.  Plus, we’re talking about the importance of critical journalism in science communication and the interactions between LRRK2 and ribosomal proteins in Parkinson’s disease. 

We’re pleased to share our microphones with Dr. Joe Rochford this week.  He’ll join our conversations about open access, the importance of experimental design and the need for reproducibility in science.  

 Fresh off the conference debut of OYM, we’re talking about the role of maternal TNF in hippocampal development, how to relate scientific productivity to investment and why we’re happy not to be bee researchers.

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

We walk the line between reality and science fiction this week with stories of reverse engineering an image from brain activity and compounds that can reverse aging. We’re also discussing a paper that uses gene network analysis and exome sequencing to study neurodegeneration

We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Joe Makkerh to the OYM team this week.  He’s sharing his experiences with science, academic administration and the taxing effects of grad school on mental health.  We’ll also talk about the place for epigenetics in evolution, the echoes of the big bang and much more.