On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

Sorry everybody, no real episode this week, but next time, we promise! Find all our old episodes at www.onyourmind.ca

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscince podcast: A bonus episde! We get an update from Liam about the ISSCR conference, and hear about Adels commitee stuggles and Kats high profile meetings. No paper, No what's On our Minds, lots of late night giggles!

This week on OYM we get to play a little Monday morning quarterback on postpublication peer review. We get a taste of what its like to be in the neurosurgical OR and Liam’s headed to Vancouver for a conference. Our article this week is about mitochondrial health and how Parkin/PINK1 aren’t the only show in town when it comes to protecting out little ATP machines and maybe preventing Parkinson’s Disease!     For link to everything we talked about and full show notes check out www.onyourmind.ca/mul1ng-over-mitochondria

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:  Why you should drink before you get stabbed; Will your self driving car kill you to save someone else? and a new tool helps predict if you'll become a PI. Finally, a new stem cell model of ALS suggests the involvment of ER stress response. 

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast: We’re back from CAN and talking about conference dynamics and poster marketing.  This episode also touches on some cognitive science, the role of intuition in science and a paper that combines two levels of study to collect mRNA from specific subpopulation of projection neurons.  For links to all the things we've talked about this week and full show notes check out www.OnYourMind.ca/nanobody-snatchers

Due to an interruption in our regularly scheduled recording time, we’ve got an abridged version of On Your Mind this week. We’re talking about the role of monoamine signaling during specific developmental sensitive periods, on the development of anxiety and aggression. 

This week on the On Your Mind neuroscience podcast: The gang has a sensational discussion on synesthesia and an experiment suggesting we might identify letters before we might even be aware of them. Then a press release of unpublised research gets the group riled up on its implications for autism diagnoses. The article this week is about MS and how human neural stem cell grafts can mitigate its development, or reverse its progression.  For links and full show notes head to www.onyourmind.ca/ms-america

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: Kat’s back from her networking adventure to talk about lucid dreaming, eating bugs and mass extinction with the rest of the team.  This week, we’re talking about a paper that investigates the role of potassium channels and astrocytes in the development of Huntington’s Disease.    For full show notes, links and more check out www.onyourmind.ca/special-k-channels

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscienc Podcast: Its yet another guested podcast. Ian has returned, since Kat's away in Victoria B.C. for a conference! This week the gang talks about science in the media and how much of good reporting depends on the scientist themselves. Also, we discuss about what its like to be a broke student and whether that feeling might change when we actually grow and get jobs. Finally, the article for this week is about the analgesic effects in mice of male experimenters just standing in the room! This paper is making a lot of noise in the media and is also making scientists working with animal models a little nervous!   For links to everything we've talked about to day and full show notes head to www.onyourmind.ca/mice-get-afraid

This week in the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: We get into a super fun discussion when Kat brings up an article on the impact of a crying baby and how that helps its fitness. Then things get a little heated when the subject of the scientific rigor of evolutionary psych as field comes up. Fortunately, Liam was able to calm our nerves when he let us know they discovered a 13th cranial nerve. Guess its time to throw out your mnemonics, anatomy majors! In a pretty big change of pace Adel talks about new moons forming and breaking up in Saturn's rings, with the newest one being discovered called Peggy! The article for this episode touches on the effects of THC use in adolescent rats that may or may not lead to different drug seeking behaviour in their offspring, even long after the parents have stopped using it. For Links to what we talked about and full show notes check out www.onyourmind.ca/offspring-on-your-left

It’s all about innovation at OYM this week, from the interactive mouse connectome to patient-derived organ transplants.  Plus, we’re talking about the importance of critical journalism in science communication and the interactions between LRRK2 and ribosomal proteins in Parkinson’s disease. 

We’re pleased to share our microphones with Dr. Joe Rochford this week.  He’ll join our conversations about open access, the importance of experimental design and the need for reproducibility in science.  

 Fresh off the conference debut of OYM, we’re talking about the role of maternal TNF in hippocampal development, how to relate scientific productivity to investment and why we’re happy not to be bee researchers.

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast: We walk the line between reality and science fiction this week with stories of reverse engineering an image from brain activity and compounds that can reverse aging. We’re also discussing a paper that uses gene network analysis and exome sequencing to study neurodegeneration

We’re pleased to welcome Dr. Joe Makkerh to the OYM team this week.  He’s sharing his experiences with science, academic administration and the taxing effects of grad school on mental health.  We’ll also talk about the place for epigenetics in evolution, the echoes of the big bang and much more.

OYM’s talking science business – how much it costs and who should pay for it.  We’ll also touch on the benefits of networking, career paths invoving science and our shared love/hate for science puns before reviewing the paper.  This week’s looks at endocannabinoid signaling in the central amydgala 

We’re looking at the complexities of addiction neurocircuitry this week with a paper that links the ventral pallidum to cocaine seeking.  And as if that weren’t enough, we’re also talking about how the season of your birth might affect your brain structure and what might happen if you’ve mutated your Pokemon gene

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscince Podcast: Adel’s ventured out into the real world but he’s still got time to talk science, and gibberish, with the team back home.  We’re talking about the GABA switch, oxytocin, and the whether or not they’re related to autism in this week’s paper

We’re talking about relationships on OYM this week: the relationship between the AAAS and open access, the relationship between the media and research, and the relationship between cortical thickness, IQ and genetics.  Not to mention, Liam’s rocky relationship with Western Blotting. 

This week on the On You Mind Neuroscince Podcast: We’re in the spirit of the season and talking about the neuroscience of love, our infatuation with p values and the effects of long term stress on the hippocampus.  Particularly, we’re focusing on a paper looking at the birth of oligodendrocytes: the myelinating cells of the CNS. For shownotes and links checdk out www.onoyurmind.ca/oligodendrogenesis