Episodes

  • Different Types of Dopamine Neurons with Professor Rajesh and Daniel
    Mar 18 2024


    Listen to learn about how dopamine neurons aren’t all the same, some neurons use dopamine to reduce negative behaviours, to increase or nothing at all. I’ll be talking to to Professor Danielle who loves everything to do with navigation and Rajeshwar who is more of a dopamine specialist.

    Links

    Paper

    Daniel.A.Domeck – lab website

    Rajesh Awatramani – lab website

    Daniel A Dombeck twitter

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    53 mins
  • Looking for Dementia in the Blood with Dr Keenan Walker
    Oct 20 2023

    This was a brilliant episode as I have long been looking into the research into a diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia in general. I for a long time for a paper on diagnostic markers for Alzheimer’s Disease and demetnai in general because it is one of the roadblocks to help us understand and eventually cure these diseases. We still cannot diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease and most dementia’s until 15-20 years into the disease. And this paper is a big step forward looking at over 5000 proteins in the blood. So listen in to find out more.


    NIA investigator page

    https://irp.nih.gov/pi/keenan-walker

    LinkedIn:

    www.linkedin.com/in/keenan-walker-1268a6197

    Paper:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37467317




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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Looking at Memory and Navigation In the Brain With Professor Arne.D.Ekstrom and Sarah Seger
    Aug 22 2023

    Today is a unique episode. It is the first time I will have people interviewed on the show. I talked to both Professor Arne.D.Ekstrom and Sarah Seger who is a PhD student in his lab who did a lot of the work for the paper which is titled, ‘ Memory-related processing is the primary driver of human hippocampal theta oscillations.


    Lab website

    Paper

    Twitter page

    Podcast website



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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Looking Into The Brain With Dr Regis Grailhe
    Aug 6 2023

    This episode is a short one because I could not find the other episodes even after contacting Zoom.

    We will be discussing the paper titled. Non-invasive In Vivo Brain Astrogenesis and Astrogliosis Quantification Using a Far-red E2-Crimson Transgenic Reporter Mouse

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    29 mins
  • Memory and Drosophila with Professor Scott Waddell
    Feb 5 2023

    Today, I’ll be talking to Professor Scott Waddell and is research into memory in the Drosophila the commonly used fly in science research. Memory is one of the most interesting topics in the most interesting field which is neuroscience and this episode will not disappoint.

    https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/team/scott-waddell

    https://twitter.com/ScottishWaddell

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    57 mins
  • COVID and the Brain with Dr Daniel Martins De Souza
    Nov 10 2022

    COVID may be something we do not want to think about but it is important that we carry on trying to understand the effects of this devastating virus. With Dr Daniel Martins de Souza we will be looking into the neural effects of COVID. Listen in to find out how it effects the brain.

    Link to Paper

    Link to Dr Daniel Martins de Souza

    Link to Brain Explained Blog

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    56 mins
  • Microglial Development with Dr David Menassa
    Sep 25 2022

    Microglia are the brain’s defense system and cleaning system and so are incredibly important for the normal functioning of the brain if you want to learn more about these fascinating cells then be sure to listen in to this episode of Brain Explained.

    Dr David Menassa’s Twitter

    Dr David Menassa’s lab page

    The paper

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    39 mins
  • Exploring Blood Supply to Different Brain Regions with Dr Yongsoo Kim
    Jul 16 2022

    Come at listen to the latest episode of Brain Explained where we explore research looking into blood flow across the brain. A relatively new and very important area o research that is opening up so many findings.

    The paper

    Dr YongSoo lab website

    Dr YongSoo’s Twitter

    Brain Explained website

    Brain Explained Twitter

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    57 mins