

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


Seeing sounds, tasting colors: the science of synaesthesia with David Eagleman (re-release)

The BRAIN Initiative: the national vision for the future of neuroscience is now in doubt | Bill Newsome

The cannabinoids within: how marijuana hijacks an ancient signaling system in the brain | Ivan Soltesz

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

Why new Alzheimer's drugs don't work | Mike Greicius, Stanford University School of Medicine

Depression's distinctive fingerprints in the brain | Leanne Williams, Stanford University

How the brain helps cancers grow | Michelle Monje

Unraveling Timothy Syndrome: the new science of human brain development | Sergiu Pasca
How VR could help treat depression with "radical behaviorist" Dr. Kim Bullock
Electronic skin and the future of wearable technology | Zhenan Bao
How a new kind of brain plasticity could help make sense of addiction | Michelle Monje and Rob Malenka
Our plastic brains: learning, memory and aging with the one and only Carla Shatz (Rerelease)
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Neuroscience and AI: What artificial intelligence teaches us about the brain (and vice versa) | Surya Ganguli
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...
How we remember, why we forget | Anthony Wagner
Psychedelics Inside Out: How do LSD and psilocybin alter our perceptions? (Part 2)
Psychedelics, placebo, and anesthetic dreams | Boris Heifets (part 1)
Why our brains are bad at climate change | Nik Sawe
Famous & Gravy: Mind Traveler | Oliver Sacks
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