This Week in Neuroscience

TWiN 21: How do we know if a mouse is hallucinating?


Listen Later

TWiN explores a study of hallucination-like perception in mice which supports the idea that hallucinations arise as faulty perceptual inferences due to elevated dopamine in the striatum.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Ori Lieberman, and Timothy Cheung

Subscribe (free): iTunesGoogle PodcastsRSS, email

Become a patron of TWiN!

Links for this episode
  • Listener poll - please take it
  • Striatal dopamine and hallucination in mice (Science)
  • Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your neuroscience questions and comments to [email protected]

...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

This Week in NeuroscienceBy Vincent Racaniello

  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8
  • 4.8

4.8

85 ratings


More shows like This Week in Neuroscience

View all
Nature Podcast by Springer Nature Limited

Nature Podcast

763 Listeners

This Week in Virology by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology

2,053 Listeners

This Week in Parasitism by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Parasitism

455 Listeners

This Week in Microbiology by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Microbiology

507 Listeners

Quanta Science Podcast by Quanta Magazine

Quanta Science Podcast

450 Listeners

Hidden Brain by Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

Hidden Brain

43,265 Listeners

Science Vs by Spotify Studios

Science Vs

11,896 Listeners

This Week in Virology by Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology

225 Listeners

Ologies with Alie Ward by Alie Ward

Ologies with Alie Ward

23,383 Listeners

Immune by Vincent Racaniello

Immune

269 Listeners

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas by Sean Carroll | Wondery

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

4,076 Listeners

Febrile by Sara Dong

Febrile

172 Listeners

Stanford Psychology Podcast by Stanford Psychology

Stanford Psychology Podcast

5 Listeners

The Joy of Why by Steven Strogatz, Janna Levin and Quanta Magazine

The Joy of Why

457 Listeners

Infectious Disease Puscast by Vincent Racaniello

Infectious Disease Puscast

79 Listeners