Neuroscientists Talk Shop Podcast
1) Episode 322 - Matthew Goodwin, PhD
On December 8, 2025 we spoke with Dr. Matthew Goodwin about the use of wearable biosensor technology and machine learning to improve behavioral evaluation of autism, to provide real time alerts for ca...Show More
2) Episode 321 - Mike Beckstead, PhD
On December 4, 2025 we talked with Dr. Mike Beckstead about his work on changes in dopaminergic neuron excitability in the ventral tegmental area in an animal model of Alzheimer's disease. Mike explai...Show More
3) Episode 320 - Cristian Lasagna-Reeves, PhD
On November 20, 2025 we met with Dr. Cristian Lasagna-Reeves to talk about tau protein, its normal function, and what is known about how it aggregates to form the tangles seen in a variety of neurodeg...Show More
4) Episode 319 - Maria Diehl, PhD
On November 13, 2025, we met with Dr. Maria Diehl, to learn about her experiments on avoidance learning in rats. The conversation focused on learning in a social context, in which one animal benefits ...Show More
5) Episode 318 - Jason O'Connor, PhD
On November 6, 2025, I spoke with Dr. Jason O'Connor about the behavioral and psychological effects of inflammation, and their similarity to depression. Jason explained how inflammation can produce th...Show More
6) Episode 317 - Peter Crino, MD, PhD
On October 23, 2025 we met with Dr. Peter Crino about how mutations occurring during cell division in the developing cerebral cortex can lead to localized developmental malformations of cortical struc...Show More
7) Episode 316 - Sarah Swinford-Jackson, PhD
On October 16, 2025 we spoke with Sara Swinford-Jackson about effects of parental drug self-administration on motivated drug taking in offspring in rodents. Sarah discussed the approach taken to remov...Show More
8) Episode 315 - Maria Geffen, PhD
On October 9, 2025 we met with Maria Geffen to discuss the how three kinds of inhibitory neurons in the auditory cortex each contributes to individual features of auditory experience.Guest:Maria Geffe...Show More
9) Episode 314 - Dan Lodge, PhD
On October 2, 2025 Dan Lodge returned to the podcast to talk about the physiological changes in brain circuits associated with schizophrenia. We reviewed the status of the dopamine hypothesis of schiz...Show More
10) Episode 313 - Daniel Dombeck, PhD
On September 25, 2025 we met with Daniel Dombeck to talk about cognitive maps and place coding by neurons in the hippocampus. Conversation topics included the spatial organization of cells with a map,...Show More