On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

No Neuroscience on this episode of On Your Mind, instead there there will be Adel singing and stories of Liam's loose relationship with pants.

See you in 2014!

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience podcast:

Alzheimers and the Garbage Barge. 

Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders are associated with amyloid plaques- aggregates of misfolded, aberrant proteins – throughout the brain. Our paper this week builds on the hypothesis that too much amyloid precursor protein (APP) is released from neurons because of impaired lysosome (Garbage Barge) functioning using Neu1 knockout mice.

Also on our minds this week are computer models of peer review, medical hoaxes, and Vally-speak.

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On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:

Can epigenetics explain behavioural inheritance between generations?  We’ll take a look at a paper by Dias and Ressler to help figure it out.  Also, we’ve got a lot to say about a paper claiming that the differences between men and women are, in part, due to the connectivity of their brain.

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On Your Mind: Neuroscience insight, every week.

This week we’re trying to unite genetics studies of autism and neurodevelopmental disorders with their associated gene networks with a paper by Willsey et al.  We’re also talking about the autrocities committed by American researchers in Guatamala in the 40s, the approach to AIDS treatment in Rwanda and the future of 23andMe.

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Welcome to Jean-François Gariépy and Diana Xie from Neuro.tv!  Our guests drop by OYM headquarters (digitally, of course) to talk about the neural correlated of humor with a review by Vrticka et al.  We discuss the origins of humor as well as the challenges and rewards of trying to look at a living, functioning brain

Welcome to a very special episode of On Your Mind.

This week Liam interviewed a bunch of students and post-docs that presented posters at SFN. These are there stories.

Keith Hengen: Homoeostasis of neuronal spiking

His Neuron Paper: (close access)

Computer modelling shows the need for homoeostasis:  (Open Access)

Jonathan Michaels: Neural networks in grasping movements

Multi-electrode array recording in monkeys -

His Blog: ConciousMistakes.com

Anand Krishnan:  Peripheral nerve regeneration in mammals

Nerve regeneration:

Nico Reggente: Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Value-Directed learning

DTI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_MRI

Value Directed Decision Making: (closed access)

Elise Piazza : Hemisphereic Differences in Binocular Rivalry

Binocular rivalry review

Martin Engel: Treating Schizophrenia with Neuregulin

The state of current antipsychotics:

It’s all about the habenula on this episode of OYM.  We’re talking about a paper by Li et al. that deals with the role of the habenula in depression.   Also, we’ve got the cost of our science costs on our mind and we’re talking about the dangers of wreckless googling.

We’ve got our first ever guest host, Ian Mahar at OYM this week, talking neurogenesis in the hippocampus, antidepressants and the use of animal models of behaviour. Our tenth episode also has us talking about the pressure of huge conferences, the use of article-level metrics to evaluate a paper’s impact and a strange medical disorder.

This week we’re talking dopamine and dendritic spines with a well written paper by Jia et al.  We’ve also got a lot to say about visualizing science, conflicts of interest and the allure of being terrified

We’re talking epilepsy this week with a paper by Hunt et al. looking at GABA progenitor cells injected into the limbic system.  There’s also a thought provoking discussion of movies, the marketplace and our academic future in this special issue late-night episode.