NeuroPod
Summary: NeuroPod, the neuroscience podcast from Nature, highlights news and articles published in Nature's journals, including interviews with the people behind the science and in-depth commentary and analysis from journalists covering the research.
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Podcasts:
October 2014: Neuromyths in the classroom, how the brain keeps time, and a compound found in cocoa staves off memory decline in older adults.
September 2014: Risk factors for psychosis, network theory and the brain, and why one psychologist told subjects their future would be isolated and lonely.
August 2014: The truth about mirror neurons, the fly brain gets a good tidy up, and how studying prejudice could help us defeat it.
July 2014: A giant survey of the genetic basis of schizophrenia, nervous system cells that can change their identity, and can pain be erased just like memories are forgotten?
June 2014: Touch as an emotion, the channels that help calm activity in the brain, and regrets - rats have a few.
May 2014: This month, the need for better research into suicide, using focused beams of sound to prise apart the blood-brain barrier, and getting new results online without waiting for publication.
April 2014: This month, the stress of the father is visited on the children, confrontations between police and mentally ill people are on the up, and the feelgood factor of sharing your data.
March 2014: This month, the next generation of brain stimulators, manipulating how people value things, how some neurons are eaten alive in true horror-film style, and studying how solitary confinement affects the brain.
February 2014: Weighing brain activity with a balance, using psychological measures to determine the death penalty, and how brain scanning studies are routinely excluding 10% of the population.
January 2014: Boosting learning and recovery using mild electric stimulation, tracking down speech processing, and detecting lies with fMRI.
November 2013: Treating brain injury through the skull, a new exhibition puts objects from psychology's history on display, and using antibodies to treat Alzheimer's disease.
NeuroPod Extra - Touching a Nerve: In her latest book, Touching a Nerve, philosopher Patricia Churchland argues that to understand the mind, all you need is to understand the brain.
November 2013: A special edition recorded at the Society for Neuroscience meeting this month. Featuring the drowsy brain, unusual animal neuroscience, philosophy and a round-up of other conference highlights.
October 2013: The brain region that acts like your sports coach, moral neuroscience, and the cells that make DEET so repellent to insects.
September 2013: The causes of financial bubbles, studying migraines, how a dance group is informing research on practice, and how the brain copes with imagining new experiences, like nutella-pesto.
