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Today, our guest is Shernaz Bamji, Associate Professor in the Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences at the University of British Columbia. In this episode, we will talk about neurtrophins, cadherins and adhesion at the synapse, and scientific heroes.

Today, our guest is Dr. Antonello Bonci, Scientific Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, as well as a Senior Investigator within NIDA and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University. In this episode, we will talk about cocaine and Ritalin, new clinical trials using TMS to treat addiction, and ringing in the New Year.

Welcome to another episode of NeuroTalk, the interview series for Stanford University’s weekly neuroscience seminar, brought to you by NeuWrite West. Our guest is Peter Jonas, a professor Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. In this episode, we will talk about his research on GABAergic interneurons, linking molecular properties of neuronal subtypes to their greater circuit function, and the challenges of building an institute from scratch.

Update: We've re-highlighted this track on December 15th, 2015 in anticipation of Dr. Kastner's upcoming talk at Stanford University. Please enjoy! This week, our guest is Sabine Kastner, a professor of psychology at the Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior at Princeton University. In this episode, we will talk about Dr. Kastner’s transition from philosopher to experimental scientist, studying attention in visual processing networks, the Beatles, and the importance of engaging in scientific outreach.

This week on Neurotalk, Kimberly Huber joins us to discuss protein synthesis in synaptic plasticity, translating basic research into clinically relevant therapeutics, and upcoming Halloween plans. All this, and more! Dr. Huber is a professor of neuroscience at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

This week on Neurotalk, we chat with Elena Gracheva about working with bats, snakes and squirrels (oh my!), and also how thermoregulation studies might help us with organ transplants. All this and more! Elena Gracheva is an assistant professor of molecular and cellular physiology at the Yale University School of Medicine

This week on Neurotalk, we chat with Randy Bucker about the unsurprising surprising role of the prefrontal cortex in memory, the rapid expansion of association cortex in humans, and what to do with a quarter in an MRI machine. Dr. Buckner is a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Harvard University.

Join us for this episode as we highlight unforgettable moments from NeuroTalk Seasons 1 and 2. Through short, memorable clips, we will explore the gripping stories of how our guests were inspired to become scientists, adventures studying different animal models, and gossip about different professors. We will also share the greatest moment in all of NeuroTalk (so far!). Take a listen!

Brains & Bourbon: Shots! is a short form version of our show Brains & Bourbon, where we sit down with a neuroscientist to discuss their work and share their favorite cocktail. In this first episode of Shots!, we chat with graduate student Matt Figley about using yeast to model complex neurological disorders, plus more!

Today, our guest is Michael Shadlen, professor of neuroscience at the Kavli Institute for Brain Science at Columbia University. We will discuss his take on consciousness, perception, and his research studying sensory decision-making. We will also let him give us a teaser about his upcoming talk at Stanford.

This week on Neurotalk, we chat with James Surmeier about dopamine in the basal ganglia, the molecular mechanisms underlying Parkinson's disease, and why we shouldn't cling too tightly to our ideas. Dr. Surmeier is a professor and the Chair of the department of physiology at Northwestern University.

In this episode of Brains & Bourbon, Viola Caretti explains how a small group of scientists and a dedicated community of affected families have come together in their search for a cure for a deadly form of childhood brain cancer. Viola is a postdoctoral research fellow in Michelle Monje's lab here at Stanford.

Join us for our latest edition of NeuroTalk as we examine the future of scholarly publishing. Nick Weiler interviews John Sack, founding director of High Wire Press, the groundbreaking e-publishing platform created in 1996 and now serving nearly 2,000 journals, ranging from Science to eLife. We go in-depth and discuss Sack's ideas about the future of scholarly journals, including the evolution of the "open access" movement, improvements to the peer review process, and the need for interactive online discussions around published science. Sack, a self-proclaimed futurist, muses about ongoing trends in publishing and whether we would even recognize the journals of the future. This is one episode you don't want to miss! Producers: Mark Padolina and Nick Weiler

In this exciting new episode of Brains & Bourbon, Zoya Farzampour talks to us about the role of non-neuronal brain cells in epilepsy, why electrophysiology is so dang cool, and much more! Zoya is a 5th year graduate student in John Huguenard's lab here at Stanford.

This week we sat down with new MCP Assistant Professor Lucy O'Brien over her favorite chocolate recovery shake to talk about studying stem cells in the fly gut and the great adventure of science.

We sat down with Stanford Neuroscience graduate student Kelly Zalocusky over a Tom Collins to discuss the dopamine reward system, risk tolerance in rodents, and nut caching in squirrels, among other topics. Here's the breakdown: Part 1 (26:23) Dopamine System (extended) “Anyone who has ever gotten out of bed at 6 in the morning knows that you need motivation in order to initiate movement” Part 2 (26:48) Dopamine and Risk-Seeking Behavior in Rats, Rat fMRI, and the Not My Field game show “Have you been able to make the risk-seeking rats into humdrum rats?” Part 3- (20:05) Squirrels “It turns out that they bury walnuts at the distance you would bury walnuts if you were planting a walnut orchard.”

We sat down with Stanford Neuroscience graduate student Kelly Zalocusky over a Tom Collins to discuss the dopamine reward system, risk tolerance in rodents, and nut caching in squirrels, among other topics. Here's the breakdown: Part 1 (26:23) Dopamine System (extended) “Anyone who has ever gotten out of bed at 6 in the morning knows that you need motivation in order to initiate movement” Part 2 (26:48) Dopamine and Risk-Seeking Behavior in Rats, Rat fMRI, and the Not My Field game show “Have you been able to make the risk-seeking rats into humdrum rats?” Part 3- (20:05) Squirrels “It turns out that they bury walnuts at the distance you would bury walnuts if you were planting a walnut orchard.”

We sat down with Stanford Neuroscience graduate student Kelly Zalocusky over a Tom Collins to discuss the dopamine reward system, risk tolerance in rodents, and nut caching in squirrels, among other topics. Here's the breakdown: Part 1 (26:23) Dopamine System (extended) “Anyone who has ever gotten out of bed at 6 in the morning knows that you need motivation in order to initiate movement” Part 2 (26:48) Dopamine and Risk-Seeking Behavior in Rats, Rat fMRI, and the Not My Field game show “Have you been able to make the risk-seeking rats into humdrum rats?” Part 3- (20:05) Squirrels “It turns out that they bury walnuts at the distance you would bury walnuts if you were planting a walnut orchard.”

We sat down with Stanford Neuroscience graduate student Kelly Zalocusky over a Tom Collins to discuss the dopamine reward system, risk tolerance in rodents, and nut caching in squirrels, among other topics. Listen to individual segments from this show here: https://soundcloud.com/neuwritewest/sets/brains-bourbon-episode-15-a-tom-collins-with-kelly-zalocusky

This week on Brains & Bourbon, we chat with Hank Greely about the ethics and laws of neuroscience. Topics include the legal and ethical concerns of personal genomics (such as 23 and Me), using fMRI as a complimentary tool for lie detection, establishing justice in cases of mental or psychiatric instability, bringing back extinct animals, and more! Hank Greely is a Professor of Law at Stanford University, and serves as the chair of the California Advisory Committee on Human Stem Cell Research, director of the Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences as well as the new Stanford Program In Neuroscience and Society, or “SPINS.”