Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists
Naked Neuroscience - A spine-tingling interactive exploration of the brain, from the Naked Scientists
- Website
- http://www.thenakedscientists.com/neuroscience
- Description
- Open your mind with Naked Neuroscience, the spine-tingling, interactive monthly exploration of the workings of the nervous system from the Naked Scientists.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2025-02-21 21:34
- last episode published
- 2025-02-19 12:47
- publication frequency
- 56.12 days
- Contributors
- Dr Chris Smith
- Owner
- The Naked Scientists
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 83
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- Categories
- Education Natural Sciences Higher Education Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-02-19 | This episode of Naked Neuroscience is co-published on the Naked Scientists Podcast. James Tytko examines one of the largest causes of disability amongst the young: multiple sclerosis. We hear from Lara Kingsman who is living with MS, doctors at the Uni... |
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| 2024-12-10 | Pervasive misconceptions about what OCD is may have stood in the way of making progress towards better treating the condition. Keeping your room tidy is not necessarily a sign that you have a psychiatric condition, despite what someone might claim in p... |
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| 2024-11-11 | In this episode of Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko is investigating what harms smartphones might be inflicting on adolescents. He hears from a collective action group seeking to delay giving phones to their children, neuropsychologist Richard Cytowic d... |
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| 2024-10-09 | In this episode of Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko takes us in depth on traumatic brain injuries: assessing the risks of repeat head knocks, and shining a light on key developments in treating them. We hear from Dawn Astle, daughter of former England f... |
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| 2024-08-16 | On Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko learns about the traits shared by extremist individuals with the help of political neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod. Also, how the genetic predispositions of your peers could change your risk of developing certain psychiat... |
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| 2024-07-17 | In the latest Naked Neuroscience, James Tytko brings you two new pieces of research involving the use of AI. First, how machine learning has been deployed to map out the visual system of a fruit fly in all its complexity, and how feeding a neural netwo... |
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| 2024-04-30 | For April's episode, James Tytko brings you the latest and greatest in neuroscience news and views. First, we're probing a touchy subject, finding out whether our tactile sense might be the most underappreciated of all. Then, the sequence of genes resp... |
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| 2024-03-28 | This episode is an extended interview with Dr Charan Ranganath, director of the Memory and Plasticity Program and a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of California at Davis. He's also the author of the book, 'Why we remember.' ... |
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| 2024-02-13 | This month, James Tytko explores the dangers of debunking fake news online with Francis Madden, and discusses ongoing developments in the neuroscience of Long COVID with Stephanie Brown. Then, following on from Elon Musk's news that his brain chip comp... |
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| 2024-01-12 | Today, we're taking a closer look at traumatic brain injuries, TBIs. We'll be hearing from the doctors who are treating them, and a former soldier who is suffering from a host of mental health conditions as a consequence of his military service.And a b... |
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