On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast

This week on the On Your Mind Neuroscience Podcast:   Kat's away, and Liam is reunited with Adel Farah. Long time listeners will remember that a year ago Adel left academia for medschool, and Liam has recently decided that he will be leaving academia for.... something. We have a long chat about our motivations for leaving and what we have found, or hope to find, in the next phases of our careers.    This week Liam is bummed that he doesn't live in the States, because it means he can't sign up for Genes for Good, an academic project that periodically collects health data from you, then sends you a DNA kit and correlates genetic findings with health outcomes. If you ask them they'll also send you the results of your gene profiling, but you'll have to go elsewhere for interpretation.    Adel has been thinking about something similar, but for tumors. A recent commentary in Nature proposed a banking of genetic samples from all tumors, alongside long term patient outcome information. This could help up get a lot mo