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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute at Stanford University, Nicholas Weiler · Science

From Our Neurons to Yours

This award-winning show from Stanford’s Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute is a field manual for anyone who wants to understand their own brain and the new science reshaping how we learn, age, heal, and make sense of ourselves. Each episode, host Nicholas Weiler sits down with leading scientists to unpack big ideas from the frontiers of the field—brain-computer interfaces and AI language models; new therapies for depression, dementia, and stroke; the mysteries of perception and memory; even the debate over free will. You’ll hear how basic research becomes clinical insight and how emerging tech might expand what it means to be human. If you’ve got a brain, take a listen.

Episodes

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The power of psychedelics meets the power of placebo: ketamine, opioids, and hope in depression treatment | Boris Heifets & Theresa Lii

21 Nov 2024
35m
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Seeing sounds, tasting colors: the science of synaesthesia with David Eagleman (re-release)

07 Nov 2024
21m
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The BRAIN Initiative: the national vision for the future of neuroscience is now in doubt | Bill Newsome

24 Oct 2024
38m
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The cannabinoids within: how marijuana hijacks an ancient signaling system in the brain | Ivan Soltesz

10 Oct 2024
37m
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Memory Palaces: the science of mental time travel and the brain's GPS system | Lisa Giocomo (Re-release)

26 Sep 2024
25m
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Why new Alzheimer's drugs don't work | Mike Greicius, Stanford University School of Medicine

12 Sep 2024
25m
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Depression's distinctive fingerprints in the brain | Leanne Williams, Stanford University

29 Aug 2024
28m
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How the brain helps cancers grow | Michelle Monje

15 Aug 2024
21m
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Unraveling Timothy Syndrome: the new science of human brain development | Sergiu Pasca

01 Aug 2024
30m
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How VR could help treat depression with "radical behaviorist" Dr. Kim Bullock

18 Jul 2024
21m
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Electronic skin and the future of wearable technology | Zhenan Bao

04 Jul 2024
23m
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How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction | Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka

20 Jun 2024
22m
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Our plastic brains: learning, memory and aging with the one and only Carla Shatz (Rerelease)

06 Jun 2024
21m
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Programming Announcement

30 May 2024
0m
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Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (and vice versa) | Surya Ganguli

23 May 2024
27m
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This podcast interviews Surya Ganguli, a professor working at the intersection of neuroscience and AI, to explore similarities and differences between artificial and biological intelligence. The discussion covers the energy inefficiency of current AI models compared to the human brain (AI uses six to seven orders of m...

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How we remember, why we forget | Anthony Wagner

16 May 2024
29m
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Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part 2)

09 May 2024
23m
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Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams | Boris Heifets (part 1)

02 May 2024
30m
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Why our brains are bad at climate change | Nik Sawe

25 Apr 2024
23m
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Famous & Gravy: Mind Traveler | Oliver Sacks

14 Mar 2024
59m
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