Interview Archives - Knowing Neurons

Frames of Consciousness: An Interview with Martin Monti and Adrian Owen

August 1, 2020August 3, 2020 Joel Frohlich Brain Injury, Consciousness, fMRI, Interview, Location, Motor, Spatial, Study, vegetative

Each night when you dream, your mind is active, yet your body is largely unresponsive unless woken up. A similar situation exists for some brain-injured patients who have lost consciousness—although… Read more

Big Ideas Consciousness Interviews Neuro SciFi Philosophy Podcast

[Podcast] Uploading the Human Brain

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 Alexa Erdogan Alzheimer, Alzheimer's, Alzheimer’s disease, Brain, Calcium imaging, Cnidarians, connectome, Consciousness, Cortex, EEG, Epilepsy, Interview, Jurrasic Park, Knowing Neurons, LEGO, long term depression, Long-term potentiation, LTD, LTP, Microscopy, Neuron, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Parkinson's, Parkinson's Disease, Research, Sci-fi, Science, Science Fiction, SOMA, Upload

n a brand new episode of the Knowing Neurons podcast, we explore the concept of “mind uploading”. How would something like a mind upload really work?… Read more

Big Ideas Neuroscience Art Neuroscience Technologies Sensation and Perception

How Neuroimaging Changes Our View of Science & Humanity

August 2, 2017August 2, 2017 Alexa Erdogan Brain, CLARITY, Cortex, EEG, Fact, fMRI, Greg Dunn, Interview, Knowing Neurons, MRI, Neuroimaging, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Research, Science

Magritte’s comments on our fascination with the unknown rings true not just in artistic surrealism, but also in many of our scientific research endeavors. The human mind is continually fascinated… Read more

Did You Know? Interviews Neuroscience Art Sensation and Perception

Self Reflected: The Best of Neuroscience and Art

July 19, 2017July 16, 2017 Kayleen Schreiber Art, Brain, Color, Consciousness, Cortex, Genetics, Interview, Knowing Neurons, Learning, Neuron, Neurons, Neuroscience, Perception, Prefrontal Cortex, Science

The phrase, “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” seems especially true for scientists. What we study becomes not only intellectually beautiful, but also literally beautiful: the form is… Read more

Big Ideas Did You Know? Interviews

Spinning Logic

May 24, 2017June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Brain, Conversation, Future, Interview, Kate Fehlhaber, Neuroscience, Perception, Podcast, SciComm, Spinning Logic, STEM, Vision, Women

I had the opportunity to speak with Jason Havey, host of the Spinning Logic podcast! And it was a blast!!… Read more

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Knowing Neurons Visits the Large Hadron Collider: Interview with Dr. André David

March 1, 2017June 30, 2017 Joel Frohlich CERN, Dr. Andre David, Higgs boson, Interview, large hadron collider, LHC, particle accelerator, particle collider, particle physics, pentaquark, physics

On January 26, I had the honor of visiting the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), one of the largest and most complex scientific research facilities in the world. What was… Read more

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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Science Careers: An Interview with Dr. Rachel Bernstein

January 11, 2017June 30, 2017 Anita Career, Careers, Interview, Rachel Bernstein, Science

The pursuit of science is challenging. It is where new knowledge is born. In their path towards the unknown, scientists, too, face their fair share of insecurity. When experiments fail,… Read more

Brain Development Interviews Sensation and Perception

A Grand Vision: A Conversation with Lynne Kiorpes

November 10, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Development, Interview, Lynne Kiorpes, Neuroscience, Neuroscientist, Next Generation Award, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience, Vision

When babies are born, they cannot see very well, but their vision vastly improves as they continue to develop. Sometimes, the eyes don’t communicate well with the brain, and vision… Read more

Interviews Sensation and Perception

Is Seeing Believing? A Conversation with Tom Albright

November 9, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Brain, Forensic, Interview, Memory, Neuroscience 2016, Neuroscientist, Next Generation Award, Perception, Salk, San Diego, Science, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience, Tom Albright, Vision

What does eye-witness identification have to do with neuroscience? A lot, actually.… Read more

Interviews Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Mental Health is a Part of Health: A Conversation with Shekhar Saxena

November 8, 2016June 30, 2017 Anita Anxiety, Conversation, depression, Global, Health, Interview, Mental, Neuroscience, Neuroscience 2016, Policy, Psychiatrist, PTSD, Research, Science, SfN, SfN16, Shekhar Saxena, Society for Neuroscience, WHO, World Health Organization

In a recent presidential town hall, President Obama looked directly into the camera and made a powerful statement about mental health. “If something inside you feels like it’s wounded, it’s… Read more

Neuro News

We won an award!

November 7, 2016June 30, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Award, Education, Interview, Neuroscience, Neuroscience 2016, Next Generation Award, Outreach, SciArt, SciComm, SfN, SfN16, Society for Neuroscience

We are excited to announce that we received the Society for Neuroscience 2016 Next Generation Award. This award recognizes SfN chapter members who have made outstanding contributions to public communication,… Read more

Brain Basics Consciousness Sensation and Perception Videos

Garbage Smells Green and Gunshots Are Rainbows

September 15, 2016July 10, 2017 Joel Frohlich associators, Blue, Brain, brain imaging, Color, color-grapheme, Colors, Conscious, Consciousness, diffusion tensor imaging, DTI, Francis Galton, Green, Hear, ideasthesia, Interview, Music, Neuroscience, projectors, Red, See, Sound, Synesthesia, Synethesia, Violin

The minds of individuals are like parallel universes, forever inaccessible to one another. Never do we truly see through the eyes of another person. It is common for us to… Read more

Brain Books Interviews Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

An Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes

March 30, 2016March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw Author, Autism, Conversation, Interview, Neurotribes, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, SciComm, Steve Silberman, Writer

Ten minutes before I was scheduled to begin my interview with celebrated writer Steve Silberman, I still had not figured out which questions I wanted to ask him. Staring down… Read more

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Explain Things To Me: Neuroscientist Kate Fehlhaber

October 16, 2015March 5, 2017 Kate Fehlhaber Anna Akana, Brad Gage, Conversation, ETTM, Expert, Interview, Kate Fehlhaber, Neuroscience, PhD, Podcast, Research, Science, Vision

Recently, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Anna Akana and Brad Gage for their podcast called “Explain Things To Me,” a show that features conversations with experts in various fields,… Read more

Brain Basics Brain Development Interviews SfN 2014

Science Fiction, Serendipity and Interneuron Specification: A Conversation with Dr. Gordon J. Fishell

November 3, 2014March 5, 2017 Anita Conversation, Excitation, GABA, glutamate, Gordon Fishell, Graduate School, Inhibition, Interneuron, Interview, NYU, Presidential Lecture, Research, SfN, SfN14

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Did You Know? Interviews SfN 2014

From Stevens to Synapses: A Conversation with Kelsey Martin

October 22, 2014March 5, 2017 Jillian L. Shaw and Synapses, Conversation, DNA, Eric Kandel, gene, Interview, Kelsey C. Martin, Kelsey Martin, Learning, M.D./Ph.D., Memory, Neurons, Peace Corps., Plasticity, SfN14, Synapse, Synapses, The Living Record of Memory: Genes, UCLA

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