NeuroPod

NeuroPod: 28 October 2009

Wednesday, 28 October 2009 16:00:00 GMT

How sleep deprivation affects your memory, teaching mice to play video games in the name of neuroscience, the evolution of the human cerebral cortex, and how different two brains can be, and still perform the same task.

NeuroPod: 1 October 2009

Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:00:00 GMT

The plus-sides and pitfalls of genome-wide association studies, mitigating stroke by knocking out a key protein, gene therapy for colour blindness, and a test of awareness in minimally conscious patients.

NeuroPod: 28 August 2009

Friday, 28 August 2009 16:00:00 GMT

A class of genes that jump around the genomes of brain cells, a challenge to the 'use it or lose it' theory of neuronal connections, how the brain processes faces and a brain mapping anniversary.

NeuroPod: 28 July 2009

Tuesday, 28 July 2009 16:00:00 GMT

How immune cells get through the blood-brain barrier, the brains of elite athletes, the structure of a curious set of receptors, and the genes behind an aggressive brain cancer.

NeuroPod: 29 June 2009

Monday, 29 June 2009 16:00:00 GMT

How what you look for biases what you see, using magnetic stimulation for research and treatment, mouse 'assault courses', and how the brain replays memories any chance it gets.

NeuroPod: 29 May 2009

Monday, 1 May 2009 16:00:00 GMT

How the brain responds to stress, cultured birds, how Flores man ended up with a tiny brain, and learning about speech from nonhuman primates.

NeuroPod: 28 April 2009

Wednesday, 29 April 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Light-activated neurons make waves, new genetic candidates for autism, the first Nobellist to turn one hundred, and emotions in man and machines.

NeuroPod: 27 March 2009

Friday, 27 March 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Forming first impressions, how to make dopamine neurons, the function of brain waves and how fruitflies know which way is up.

NeuroPod: 27 February 2009

Friday, 27 February 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Kerri chats to Darwin's great-great-grandson about his relative's role in child psychology, decodes visual memory, provides a rough guide to glial cells and hears about an AI project making its way to an office near you.

NeuroPod: 28 January 2009

Wednesday, 28 January 2009 18:00:00 GMT

In this month's show, we celebrate fifty years of pheromones, discover how brain cells know who to network with, why imaging might be giving us a misleading picture of brain activity, and how sleeping lightly at night could be making you forgetful the next day.

NeuroPod: 19 December 2008

Friday, 19 December 2008 18:00:00 GMT

In this month's show, Kerri finds out why researchers are studying slumbering flies, looks back on the life of famous amnesiac patient HM, finds a load of brain proteins whose function is changed by adding fat, and takes a tour of a brain bank in London.

NeuroPod: 28 November 2008

Friday, 28 November 2008 18:00:00 GMT

This month's show is packed full of highlights of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC. Discover why neuroscientists are interested in carbon nanotubes, how to do neuroscience for under $100, and how a patient with locked-in syndrome has been able to produce speech.

NeuroPod: 24 October 2008

Friday, 24 October 2008 18:00:00 GMT

In this show, Kerri Smith discovers how monkeys have regained movement in paralysed limbs, finds out how the brain is affected by steroids, hunts out two new Alzheimer's disease targets and reports back from a meeting on autism.

NeuroPod: 30 September 2008

Tuesday, 29 September 2008 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we look at the psychology of the credit crunch, pit two treatments for depression against each other and find out why deaf people can retain the ability to speak even when they can no longer hear. Plus, Kerri reports on an unusual play with a neuroscience theme.

NeuroPod: 27 August 2008

Wednesday, 27 August 2008 18:00:00 GMT

This month, Kerri Smith brings you news of how magic can inform neuroscience, the development of our sense of fairness, mice that stay thin despite a high-fat diet, and the ultimate selfish genes.

NeuroPod: 25 July 2008

Friday, 25 July 2008 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Kerri Smith investigates sleep deprivation and false memories, virtual reality drug dens, electrical harmony in the brain, and more highlights of the FENS meeting in Geneva.

NeuroPod: 26 June 2008

Thursday, 26 June 2008 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Kerri Smith investigates how uninherited mutations are insuring the survival of schizophrenia, discovers how thinning in the cortex could help diagnose Tourette syndrome, finds out how mice are being used to understand the genes that control speech, and hears what language can tell us about human nature.

NeuroPod: 19 May 2008

Monday, 19 May 2008 18:00:00 GMT

This month, Kerri Smith finds out why humans are such musical creatures, talks to researchers developing a monkey model of Huntington's disease, discovers how the brain speaks and listens at the same time and tackles one of philosophy's biggest challenges: free will.

NeuroPod: 23 April 2008

Tue, 23 Apr 2008 18:00:00 GMT

In this episode, we take a chance to find out about risky decision-making, liken working memory to a digital camera, link stress and anxiety to genetics and explore the unfathomable world of the teenage brain.

NeuroPod: 13 December 2007

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:00:00 GMT

This month, Kerri Smith reports from a brain imaging conference in London, discovers a protein that triggers aggression in male mice, bisexual flies reveal how the brain controls behaviour, and we learn why exercise is good for the brain as well as the body.

NeuroPod: 16 November 2007

Thu, 16 Nov 2007 18:00:00 GMT

In this special issue of NeuroPod, Kerri Smith brings you the best of the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego, California. Find out what computers can do for brains, find two ways to zoom in on pain, hear some of the most quickfire conference presentations ever, and discover what the Rolling Stones were doing at the meeting.

NeuroPod: 01 November 2007

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:00:00 GMT

See the brain in glorious Technicolor, discover how the brain controls optimism, hear about an on-off switch for mice, and debate the 'hash realities' of cannabis.

NeuroPod: 08 October 2007

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:00:00 GMT

How brain research is changing the face of warfare, what brain imaging really tells us, anaesthetics that don't cause paralysis, and learning under stress.

NeuroPod: 12 October 2006

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:00:00 GMT

Untangling autism, slimming down obesity, getting emotional about memories, multipurpose ion channels, and neuroeconomics