On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

This week On Your Mind: Adel’s back this week to talk about the platinum genome project, the seedy underbelly of peer review and the issues with using inbred rodents for science.  Also, our article this week looks at the relationship between exercise physiology, molecular changes in the brain, and depression.  Find links to this weeks paper, links to everything we talked about and more at www.onyourmind.ca/kats-resist-depression

On Your Mind this week: We’re back with a special SfN 2014 feature episode!  This year's this year’s Society for neuroscience conference was amazing. We met and talked to so many interesting and exciting people! So we're taking this episode to recap the conference, talk about some of our facourite things, and share a few of our conversations with Jack Lee, Dr. Brian Chen, Denise Zannino, Brittany Wright, Michael Stendardi, Alex and Emily Davidson, Ben Cipollini, Alex Tuttle, Nipun Chopra, Arturo Lichauco, Donald Thevalingam, Benjamin Cordy & Jesse Miles.

This week On Your Mind: We talk about media representations of Schizophrenia, GMOs, science communication and Brain Training with cognitive neuroscientist Claire Champigny. For links to all the things we talked about, full show notes and more head to www.onyourmind.ca/Clarifying-Brain-Training 

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast: We're talking about spooky science, gene patents and science idols! Then we break down the relationship between mTOR and the Huntington protein.  For links to what we talked about, full show notes and more, head to onyourmind.ca/everyones-doing-mtor

We’re excited to be talking with Ian Mahar this week, about Brazilian neuroscience, the nine circles of academic hell, and the consensus on brain training games.  We’ve also got academic writing on our minds and will end this week talking about a paper claiming to have found a biomarker for suicide.

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: Adel’s back for his second episode in a row, and we’re talking education and science this week -from the changing role of universities, to pervasive neuroscience myths and the over-abundance of post docs without academic positions.  Then, it’s onto this week’s paper discussion about ASD, synaptic pruning, and the impact of mTOR activity on autophagy. For full shownotes and links to most of the stuff we talked about today head to onyourmind.ca/pruning-and-postdocs

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast It's a 50th episode OYM reunion! Adel's back with lessons from medschool and talk of understudied patient groups. Liam and Kathryn have been applying for funding, and the stress drove Liam to vacation.  Then we're chatting about prizes both Nobel and Ignobel and papers whose titles are Blowing in the Wind.  Finally it's on to our paper examining social memory and amygdala alterations in mice modeling NF1 disease.  For more information, links to what we talked about, and past episodes head to OnYourMind.ca

sadly, Kathryn F-ed up epidose 50, so we'll be back next week with OYM 51 or real 50 or something. 

We’ve got a special IPN Retreat wrap-up episode this week, complete with poster etiquette, brushes with scientific fame and on-site interviews.

The computer ate the podcast. Again. So this is just a minute of Liam rabling about how frustrated he is about it. Back next week with real episodes, until then check out all our past episode at www.OnYourMind.ca

It’s a two-man show for our one year anniversary.  Liam and Kat are talking about presentation transparency, scientific stigma and the stigma of mental health, and reviewing a paper on antioxidant treatment and schizophrenia-like deficits

We’ve got a short episode this week, but it’s still packed solid with science!  We’re talking about the importance of networking, the pedagogy of science and why scientists are or are not using social media.  Then it’s onto the appeal of the Ice Bucket Challenge and the importance of primary resources. For links to everything we talked about, full show notes and more go to www.onyourmind.ca/shooting-the-science-shit

This week on the Show Adel has a more favourable reassessment of his interactions with the McGill bureaucracy, Kat is excited to play with a new lab toy and Liam’s cells have turned him into a night owl... WITH A TERRIBLE CURSE. We discuss the possible stigmatizing consequences of maternal effects research and get excited about more 3D brains and branding for famous scientists.    Last but far from least, this week’s paper may have our worst rated title yet, but it's an interesting look at epigenetics and Alzheimer’s. 

Sadly, computers have eaten this weeks episode of On Your Mind. We have no idea what happened, but we'll try to to let it happen agian.

On your mind this week: we spend some time talking about the lessons Adel learnt in his masters, apparently one was the term “Neuro-Gothic” which I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist. Meanwhile Liam’s meeting with his supervisor didn’t go quite as planned, and Kathryn rock the socks off her committee meeting.    During his hours alone in the cell culture room Liam has been catching up on other podcasts including The Partially Examined Life, a philosophy podcast with a couple great episodes on philosophy of science. And Kathryn has been reading about Twitter Psychosis. Is it real? The authors have apologized for the hyperbolic title, now if only people would stop writing them. This leads us down a wormhole of a conversation about the place of case studies in science.     Finally our paper this week examines the role of MicroRNA 135 in depression. This strikes close to home for Liam who was an author on a recent similar paper. 

This week ont the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: The whole crew is back in studio this week for another neuroscience adventure.  We’re dipping into the realm of brain imaging with a couple of articles that, if nothing else, have got us talking about what we can get from a MRI.  We’ve also got tales of extraterrestrial intelligence and see through jelly mice before moving onto our article this week, which tackles the full scope of disease modelling from humans to stem cells to mice and back again.

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:  Coming at you from three provinces! We talk about the future of CIHR funding, why the Chinese are hacking science agencies, and how Kathryn has been an author on four papers without even knowing it. Then how changes in dopamine projections change the epigenetics of their downstream targets?  For links to everything we talked about today and full show notes head to www.onyourmind.ca/funding-projections

Kat’s on vacation this week, but it won’t stop her from calling in to talk neuroscience with the guys. We’re talking about the place for creativity in science, the role of private vs public funders and the ongoing saga with the Human Brain Project. Then it’s onto this week’s article about adapter proteins in the clearance protein aggregates, including mutant huntingtin. For links to everything we talked about today, full show notes and more head to www.onyourmind.ca/taking-cues

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: It’s an ultra-rare episode with all three hosts in the same room!  We’re talking about the degrees of plagiarism, the scientific 1% and the lack of predictive power in animal research.  Then it’s onto our article this week, about the migration of neural progenitors and the involvement of the microtubule protein Eml1 in subcortical heterotopias.  For full show notes, links to what we've talked about and more head to onyourmind.ca/emlgrating-to-heterotipa

And we’re back!  This week, we’ll talk about the history of women’s role in science, the controversy over the Human Brain Project in Europe and how it may be more enjoyable to give yourself a few electric shocks than to be alone with your own thoughts.  Then it’s onto a paper that uses a genetic approach to explore cell patterning in mouse retinas For links, full show notes and more head to OnYourMind.ca/PTTG1-Keeps-You-Regular