Spinning Logic
I had the opportunity to speak with Jason Havey, host of the Spinning Logic podcast! And it was a blast!!…
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Conversation
Mental Health is a Part of Health: A Conversation with Shekhar Saxena
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…
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An Interview with Steve Silberman, Author of NeuroTribes
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…
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Explain Things To Me: Neuroscientist Kate Fehlhaber
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…
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Science Fiction, Serendipity and Interneuron Specification: A Conversation with Dr. Gordon J. Fishell
It is easy to assume that if a car has a gas pedal, it needs to have brakes, and similarly, if our brain has excitatory neurons, it needs inhibition too.…
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From Stevens to Synapses: A Conversation with Kelsey Martin
Take your wildest guess. How many neurons make up the human brain? You’re not guessing wild enough if you said anything less than a trillion. The circuitry of the human…
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