Neuroscience: Amateur Hour

Jun 20 2024 32 ep. 16 mins 55

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Neuroscience: Amateur Hour delves into the neuroscience of everyday experiences in every episode. From anxiety to pregnancy to our addictions to candy crush - come and learn a little bit more about what's happening upstairs.

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Episode 32: The Neuroscience of Parkinson's Disease

Jun 20 2024 23 mins

Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by uncontrollable movements, stiffness, and cognitive decline. Curious? Come learn more! Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, or complaints, please email me at [email protected] or DM me at NeuroscienceAmateurHour on Instagram. Also if you have

Episode 31: The Neuroscience of Dreams

Jan 25 2024 23 mins

Dreams are both scientifically fascinating and universal. Everyone dreams, at every age and they are often nonsensical, complex, and deeply subjective. How can you quantify something so personal in the activity of cells, circuits, and systems? Let's find out together! Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, or complaints, pleas

Episode 30: The Connection Between your Gut and the Brain

Jun 08 2023 23 mins

Have you ever thought about why some feelings might be described as gut-wrenching? Or why do the first feelings of love make you feel butterflies in the stomach? It's time to explore how your gut and your brain are connected! Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, or complaints, please email me at neuroscienceamateurhour@gmail

Episode 29: The Neuroscience of Alien Hand Syndrome

May 20 2023 23 mins

A tragic incident - a brain injury, a stroke, the development of a neurodegenerative disease, and all of a sudden, a patient's arm no longer belongs to them. It will pull their hair, pinch their cheeks, and grab miscellaneous objects, seemingly developing a mind of its own. How can something that belongs to you and is controlled by your brain, your electrical pulses, and your motor

Episode 28: MRI or the Salmon in the Scanner with the Eventually To Be Dr. Ilya

Oct 06 2022 29 mins

Could a dead salmon be thinking or is something else at play? If you're curious about the answer to that question and want to learn more about magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), come and listen! Featuring special guest the Eventually To be Dr. Ilya, this episode discusses the science behind MRI, how noise can affect imaging and landmark studies in the field! Please rate, review, and

Episode 27: The Neuroscience of Octopuses

Sep 08 2022 12 mins

Two words - Octopus brains! Nine of them!!! But seriously, if you want to learn about the insanity of the dispersed octopus nervous system, come and take a listen! Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any questions, comments, concerns, queries, or complaints, please email me at [email protected] or DM me at NeuroscienceAmateurHour on Instagram. Also if

Episode 26: The Neuroscience of Seizures and Epilepsy

Aug 25 2022 17 mins

Hello! I return! Today we will be talking about the neuroscience of seizures and epilepsy. Brought about an imbalance of the accelerators (excitatory circuits) and brakes (inhibitory circuits) of the brain, seizures are pretty terrifying events. They're marked by temporary confusion, a staring spell, uncontrollable jerking of the arms and legs (like what you see when someone depict

End of Season 1

That's a wrap on Season 1 folks! See you all in a few weeks with more episodes about epilepsy, alcohol, and more! Happy researching and I'll see you all again soon! Support the show

Episode 25: The Neuroscience of ... Neurons Firing?

Jun 30 2022 15 mins

Apologies for the absolute chaos that is this episode. Today I wanted to cover some foundational background concepts, including how a signal travel within a neuron from dendrites to the tip of the axon and how that neuron then communicates to other neurons and parts of the body. Curious? Come and listen to find out more!!! Please rate, review, and subscribe and if you have any ques

Episode 24: The Neuroscience of Deafness

Jun 23 2022 14 mins

This episode is part two of my miniseries on the neuroscience of language production and processing and today we're touching on how the brain regions encoding those concepts change in deaf individuals. It turns out that the brain is the literal embodiment of that "its free real estate" meme and vision input takes over the auditory cortex! If you're curious to know more - come and t