Neuroscience: Amateur Hour

Episode 32: The Neuroscience of Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by uncontrollable movements, stiffness, and cognitive decline. Curious? Come learn more!   Please r

Episode 31: The Neuroscience of Dreams

Dreams are both scientifically fascinating and universal. Everyone dreams, at every age and they are often nonsensical, complex, and deeply subjective. How can you quanti

Episode 30: The Connection Between your Gut and the Brain

Have you ever thought about why some feelings might be described as gut-wrenching? Or why do the first feelings of love make you feel butterflies in the stomach? It'

Episode 29: The Neuroscience of Alien Hand Syndrome

A tragic incident - a brain injury, a stroke, the development of a neurodegenerative disease, and all of a sudden, a patient's arm no longer belongs to them. It will

Episode 28: MRI or the Salmon in the Scanner with the Eventually To Be Dr. Ilya

Could a dead salmon be thinking or is something else at play? If you're curious about the answer to that question and want to learn more about magnetic resonance ima

Episode 27: The Neuroscience of Octopuses

Two words - Octopus brains! Nine of them!!! But seriously, if you want to learn about the insanity of the dispersed octopus nervous system, come and take a listen! Ple

Episode 26: The Neuroscience of Seizures and Epilepsy

Hello! I return! Today we will be talking about the neuroscience of seizures and epilepsy. Brought about an imbalance of the accelerators (excitatory circuits) and brake

End of Season 1

That's a wrap on Season 1 folks! See you all in a few weeks with more episodes about epilepsy, alcohol, and more!  Happy researching and I'll see you all again

Episode 25: The Neuroscience of ... Neurons Firing?

Apologies for the absolute chaos that is this episode. Today I wanted to cover some foundational background concepts, including how a signal travel within a neuron from

Episode 24: The Neuroscience of Deafness

This episode is part two of my miniseries on the neuroscience of language production and processing and today we're touching on how the brain regions encoding those

Episode 23: The Neuroscience of Smoking Cigarettes

Tobacco has a long and storied history but its effects on the modern world cannot be ignored. It was hailed as a cure to many ailments for years but as we understand more

Episode 22: The Neuroscience of Speech Production

So this week’s episode is all about speech production. Speech is a fundamental way of communicating our needs, desires, threats, resources, etc to our conspecifics. But d

Episode 21: The Neuroscience of Neglect: The Bucharest Project

Today’s episode is inspired by a historical nightmare and the subsequent decades-long experiment that shaped the way we understand childhood neglect and its effects on th

Episode 20: The Neuroscience of Bipolar Disorder

This week we will be learning about bipolar disorder! It's a condition characterized by extreme mood swings from emotional highs to emotional lows. One week someone

Episode 19: The Neuroscience of your Ears and Super Loud Rock Concerts

Welcome back! This week, I want to talk about your ears and how going to super loud concerts can impact your ability to hear. You might be thinking wait - ears aren’t b

Episode 18: The Neuroscience of Too Much Social Media

Social media is omnipresent. Mindless scrolling through TikTok and Instagram reels is just a part of our daily lives now. Whether it's cat videos, funny dances, or c

Episode 16: The Neuroscience of Mad Cow Disease

When I was a kid, I thought two things were going to be much bigger problems in my life than they actually are - quicksand and mad cow disease. Turns out that they aren

Episode 15: The Neuroscience of Pheromones

For the low, low price of $15.95 on Amazon, you can purchase a little spray bottle of pheromones that supposedly will trigger "animal attraction" in your partner. But is

Episode 14: The Neuroscience of Migraines

Migraines are PAINFUL! And neuroscience speaking - super cool and complicated.  It involves your blood vessels constricting and dilating and your brain going haywire and

Episode 13: The Neuroscience of Itch

Itch is... uncomfortable. We've all been there before, one motivated mosquito takes a bite out of you, and you are left with an itchy red spot for a few days that on